MSNBC Ousts Contributor Pat Buchanan Over Racist Book

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23. msnbc is obviously lying about the reason for the departure.

you can't just hire a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot,
proceed to keep on a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot,
after he continued and repeatedly provided further proof that he's a racist, anti-semitic bigot,
and then, when you finally fire him, plausibly claim the reason was that...
he's a racist, anti-semitic bigot.

the obvious truth is that he was hired and retained in spite of his being a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot (or perhaps even BECAUSE he was a well-known and demonstrably racist, anti-semitic bigot) but the cost-benefit analysis somehow showed him to be worth it, and that simply became no longer the case.

not likely because the book or the book tour changed him image any, but simply because the old fool is simply no longer as relevant or as interesting as he used to be. that is, it has NOTHING to do with his negatives -- it's his positives that are now lacking.