Rachel Maddow Takes On Pat Buchanan (VIDEO)

"You're Playing With Fire... You're Living In The 1950s"

If by some chance you haven't heard yet, last night on the Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC pundit Pat Buchanan, who's been urging the GOP members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose the appointment of Sonia Sotomayor by blissing out to their inner sense of racial superiority, had something of an epic battle with Rachel Maddow over the History of Race in America. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Jul 17, 2009 - 10:56 AM PDT
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by Dwight Rousu - Jul. 17, 2009

Racism on the part of Buchanan and on the part of the Republican party gets some heat for hate from Maddow. She lets his faux outrage take up a bit too much time, but what is new. Linkins adds to the heat.

Good on Rachel for calling out racism.

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by Randy Morrow - Jul. 18, 2009

I saw this exchange and I kept thinking: "but Pat you don't account for the effect that forced segregation had on the numbers involved."

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