Pat Buchanan has become the token conservative on MSNBC. He regularly appears as a guest on the network’s many shows, offering the supposed conservative position. That’s why he was on the network last night with new host Al Sharpton talking about the debt deal. And after a fiery exchange with Sharpton, Buchanan has now been forced to explain some comments that have him in hot water with some. Near the end of last night’s interview, Buchanan referred to President Obama as “your boy.” A stunned Sharpton responded: “My what? My President, Barack Obama? What did you say?” Buchanan quickly clarified: “He’s your boy in the ring, he’s your fighter.” Sharpton then unleashed: “He’s nobody’s boy– he’s your president, he’s our president, and that’s what ya’ll don’t get through your head.” Watch it below: What you see only in part is that throughout the debate Sharpton referred to Buchanan’s “guys” and lumped him into the conservative camp he was villainizing. That seemed to be what Buchanan was responding to. More of a, if you’re going to make me claim all Republicans, then you have got to claim Barack Obama . What Buchanan said he didn’t mean by the comment was anything racist, which is what he’s now being accused of. Buchanan made that clear Wednesday on another MSNBC show, “Morning Joe:” Let me clarify something that happened last night on the Al Sharpton show,” Buchanan began his remarks after being introduced on “Morning Joe.” “A very spirited discussion, I was asked who was the big losers in these battles and the big winners, and I said one of the big losers, using boxing terminology, was ‘your boy,’ and I meant the president of the United States,” Buchanan said. “Rev. Sharpton said my boy is the president of the United States and he’s doing a rope-a-dope in the Ali fashion and he’s going to finish off your crowd. Now this was taken, some folks took what I said as some kind of slur. None was meant, none was intended, none was delivered, for the record,” Buchanan added. Mediaite sums it up best: There was nothing overtly racial about the dialogue– certainly, it didn’t come up by name– and even following up what could very well have been a perfectly legitimate reference to the “Br’er Rabbit” legend with calling the President “boy” could be forgiven. John Quincy Adams once warned about going in search of monsters to destroy. Could it be that liberals are looking to turn Buchanan into a racist monster so they can destroy him?

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Pat Buchanan Forced to Explain ‘Your Boy’ Remark After Heated Debate With Al Sharpton

“This week I drove my convertible naked,” says actor Brandy. “I walked my dog naked,” adds TV personality Ashlan Gorse. Then Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, chimes in: “My mother would be so ashamed.” And they all deliver their lines while appearing to be, well, naked. The women are all part of a new Style Network PSA against skin cancer and advocating the use of sunscreeen. And while the “naked” refers to the lack of the SPF goop, it’s raising eyebrows for its racy use of the womens’ images. Many of the girls, for example, appear with cleverly-placed hands, or in some cases shopping bags, covering essential body parts. McCain, however, is only shown from the top of her chest and up (no need for hands). You can watch it below: The ad was apparently filmed in December. According to Politico , that’s when McCain tweeted: “Well, I’ve never been half naked on the roof of a building in front of a group of strangers b4, give it up to the girls who took it all off.” Is the ad too racy? customer surveys

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Meghan McCain Goes ‘Naked’ for Racy Skin Cancer PSA

On Fox News today, Megyn Kelly hosted Jesse Jackson, who was coming in live from Wisconsin, where a controversial bill banning collective bargaining passed the state Senate yesterday, and the state Assembly today . The bill passed the Senate with no Democrats present for the vote, so Jackson took issue with what he called the “ramrod democracy” of Gov. Scott Walker. A poised, but determined, Kelly pressed him on this issue, reminding him that a procedural maneuver caused health care to be passed through the U.S. Senate with only 51 votes, rather than the typical 60 vote majority needed. Where was Jackson’s protests of “ramrod democracy” then? Here is that exchange (and you can watch it below): Kelly: We saw this in Washington DC on the health care vote that president Obama wanted. The tea partiers and the Republicans did not want that law to go through and the Democrats did a procedural maneuver in the Senate where they got it through with 51 votes instead of 60. And that’s just life. Now that’s law. Why isn’t the same answer in place now for the Democrats who are losing? They are losing, but they’re losing farily in Wisconsin. Jackson: More health care for more Americans was not as hurtful as less education, and less health care, and fewer jobs. What you see here is the rise of hurt and people are acting out their democratic rights and sharing their pain. And they want to be heard, and I feel that when they’re steamrolled as they were in the Assembly, and as they are in the Senate, people are going to fight back until the governor hears them and engages in deliberative democracy and not ramrod democracy. Watch the clip below: Here’s another telling exchange, which comes later in the interview: Jackson: [Walker] must govern not just Republicans, but the republic. He must govern all the citizens, not just a party. He is not the governor of a party. He’s the governor of a state…. Kelly: …It seems like you’re saying you should look at the popular will and govern accordingly. Again, I go back to the health care legislation. The popular will was against that bill and yet President Obama and the democrats pushed that through at a national level. You felt very differently about that piece of legislation than you do about this one. Jackson: Well because 59 million Americans don’t have health insurance. People are dying because of that. 50 million Americans are in poverty….poor people are dying. There’s a sense of death for the poor people and surplus for the wealthy. Something about that is unhealthy for our democracy… You know what else is unhealthy for democracy? Double-standards about the democratic process. And Ken dolls. Or so says Rush Limbaugh: “Jesse Jackson is a Ken doll. There’s a little string in his back with a little ring, and you pull it, and out comes standardized number one, and you pull it again, and here comes standardized answer number two.”

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California Senate Debate: Fiorina vs. Boxer

On September 2, 2010, in barack obama, Uncategorized, by If Bush Did It

At 7pm Pacific, Carly Fiorina will face Barbara Boxer for a 60-minute televised debate. If you’re interested, it will be on C-SPAN, the Chronicle’s website, or watch it below the fold (assuming this gizmo plays when the debate starts). I’ll… Continue reading here: California Senate Debate: Fiorina vs. Boxer

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