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Pat Buchanan Denies Being Suspended By MSNBC, Says He’s On Medical Leave

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Pat Buchanan is disputing reports he was suspended from MSNBC and contends that he was instead on medical leave. “Well, you know I’ve had some medical issues at the end of the year which were pretty problematic, and so I’ve sort of been out of speaking and things like that,” Buchanan told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Monday night. “I’ve started back writing the column in December, and I’ve got the column going. I’m doing McLaughlin Group. But we haven’t gotten up on MSNBC.”

RELATED: MSNBC Ousts Pat Buchanan: Are His Views Different Now? Or Just MSNBC’s?

“On Drudge Report, somebody said I’ve been suspended,” Buchanan added. “I don’t know anything about that. I hope to get back full up here in January, but I’ve been out for a couple of months.”

Earlier, it was reported that network president Phil Griffin had placed Buchanan on indefinite suspension over controversial passages in his book, Suicide of a Superpower.

“I don’t think the ideas that [Buchanan] put forth [in the book] are appropriate for national dialogue on MSNBC,” Griffin reportedly said. “He won’t be coming back during the book tour.” Respondng to a question over whether Buchanan would be back at all, Griffin replied “I have not made my decision.”

Listen to Buchanan dispute reports he’s been suspended below, via The Hugh Hewitt Show:

(h/t Daily Caller)

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  • Anonymous

    Hughett? Hewitt. Hugh Jass!

  • http://twitter.com/allanbrauer allanbrauer

    Buchanan suffered second-degree burns when he got too close to the flaming cross.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionFraudProofClickHere

    The most fascinating story I’ve ever read

  • Anonymous

    Oh, that dang librul media got it wrong again!  We should believe everything every right wing nut case says, and not anything the lamestream media says.  Listen to O’Reilly and Limbaugh, they have inside sources that no one else has, not even the FBI or CIA.  Santorum/Palin 2012 Palin/Santorum 2012.  Mayan End Times Now!

    /crazy right wing rant

  • Hout Bosques

    Guessing Buchanan’s “illness” no doubt will be turned into a hash tag.  No, wait … Buchanan’s an old Nixon hand, so this could be a non-denial denial … right: he didn’t actually say it was leave for HIS illness. 

    MSNBC executive: You’re taking some time off Pat – we’re sick of you.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    That makes more sense. I had heard he borrowed a dirty sheet from one of his fellow “klub” members and got a terrible rash. That’s not as plausible as your story.

  • OSTL

    thanks patsy!

  • OSTL

    patsy, shouldn’t you be over on that nut job site that studies palins ears? cuckoo, cuckoo!

  • Pablo

    Does Griffin deny the quote attributed to him? That seems to be what matters in the end.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    I think what matters even more, Paulie, is that Mr. Griffin said anything. It was a colossal mistake. Utter foolishness. One doesn’t discuss anything pertaining to the state of relations with agents, servants, employees or contractors, other than, perhaps a simple acknowledgement of “hiring” or “firing”.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Sarah’s, Todd’s or Brisket’s?

  • Anonymous

    Doing damage limitation for racists again?

    You need help………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………call racist anonymous, they can help. lmao

  • Anonymous

    does mediaite have other writers? why am i being inundated with james crugnale posts, he’s all over the front page.

  • Comment removed

    Personal attacks towards other commenters and racist or otherwise
    discriminatory rants against media and political figures are childish
    and unseemly. And they’re no longer being tolerated

  • Comment removed

    Personal attacks towards other commenters and racist or otherwise
    discriminatory rants against media and political figures are childish
    and unseemly. And they’re no longer being tolerated

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think that’s what Pablo said at all.His point, which I agree with. is that Griffin’s statement still stands and now is opposite Buchanan’s.

    Griffin should have kept his mouth shut. This is a personnel matter and unless it happened on air (not that anyone would have seen it given it is MSNBC) it should not be publicly discussed.

  • Comment removed

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  • Comment removed

    Personal attacks towards other commenters and racist or otherwise
    discriminatory rants against media and political figures are childish
    and unseemly. And they’re no longer being tolerated

  • Comment removed

    They work in what looks like one day shifts.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    Someone is lying here. Or it’s one of these things.

     It got out that Pat was out  before Phil said anything to him. Or Phil got misquted when asked about Pat. Or this is a all to get Pat’s books to sell more. If Pat’s not out. why is Phil saying he is off TV ?

     If he that much of a wimp that he has to run his month on TV and not tell the person stright up. Policts not withstanding that’s say’s alot about Phil Grfien.

  • http://twitter.com/DolefulLions Doleful Lions

    I give you a week before you are banned.

  • Anonymous

    That’d be flaming ass as in Joke Scarborough, I think.

  • Anonymous

    Griffin molests collies.

  • Anonymous

    it seems like it’s at all time, though. to read any other writers’ posts (jon, alex, frances, etc.), i have to really search. james always seems to have multiple posts on the home page, though.

  • Anonymous

    Riiiiight, Pat.  Good Christian Patriot.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    Yeah, whatever.

  • OSTL

    stop licking yourself in public, widdle baby!

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    only problem is that Rudeboy is a baiter, calling anyone who deigns to point out GOP racism, racist. I suggest that his tweets be monitored.

  • OSTL

    right now widdle baby is feverishly voting up all of his own posts under all of his names..lol

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    I would suggest that Buchanan should have kept HIS mouth shut. he appeared on a white supremacist radio show to promote his book. “nuff said.

  • http://twitter.com/runforfun54 American

    You are awfully obsessed with race, rudeboy.  Your only comeback to accusations is to call the accuser racist.  Prove you;re not.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, that helps. Nice. Talk to your mother with that mouth?

  • http://twitter.com/questionsit john gammer

    Why is this news? Does Buchanan make any difference to any one? No. He is a dinosaur. Silly old fool.

  • Anonymous

    Buchanan did not comment on air at MSNBC, nor was he prevented from doing the radio show by any contractual issues. The obligation to privacy in personnel matters is with the employer. Griffin violated that to wax political.

    I would suggest that Buchanan (whose views are fairly abhorrent) was well within his rights to promote his book anywhere he wants. And MSNBC is within their rights to take him off the air for any reason. However, an employer is never within their rights in publicly discussing an action regarding any employee.

  • OSTL

    stinger

  • Anonymous

    My favorite Hugh Hewitt Show moment was when Laurence O’Donnell admitted that he was too cowardly to say anything critical of islam or muslims.

  • Pablo

    Well, that would be the point of ascertaining whether he’s denied it, wouldn’t it?

  • OSTL

    your “concern” is noted

  • Pablo

    Of course it isn’t. Our rudeboy seems a bit….oh…childish and unseemly with his personal attacks against other commenters. If he’s not calling someone a racist, I tend to wonder if it’s really him.

  • Pablo

    Apparently, his pointless nastiness is OK.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Exactly, my point. Yours would be a threshold question. My point is it is ridiculous that your question even need be asked. Griffin is not a man unschooled in matters of this sort. He was either about mischief or malicious intent.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ ElectionFraudProofClickHere

    WE need more government opinions here

  • http://profiles.google.com/shle896 Shane Lear

    Medical leave, yes!  Because he’s mentally unstable.

  • Anonymous

    HA!  the only thing scary about any Muslims I know is when my mother gets behind the wheel of a car.  SCARY!!!  But then again- I think that phenomenon crosses all religions and some of the atheists too.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Disagree if you like, but Buchanan offers some of the most well researched commentary on the air, and his books are  must reads.
    Best of health to him.

  • OSTL

    Mods, lets have some standards, here. Isn’t the “tard” reference against the rules?

  • OSTL

    another violation of the “new” rules and it still stands…

  • OSTL

    pointing out the fact a certain sock puppet is a palin stalker is not allowed and referring to bristol as “brisket” is ok…..nice.

  • Henry Wood

    I guess that it was inevitable that one of our conservative “friends” would appoint themselves to be the comment police.

    Conservatives sure do whine a lot.

    There is no racist or discriminatory taunt in either of these comments, because the KKK is not a race.

  • Anonymous

    Why do the lefties on this site continually wish to drudge up the history of the Democratic party?  Don’t make much sense, if you ask me.

  • Anonymous

    ??????

    Calling out racists is now racist? LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Comment removed

    Just seeing if Mediaite would actually follow through with their “new” comment policy.

    You have nothing to worry about though, because they obviously aren’t going to apply their “new” standards to you liberals, which is probably what most people thought anyway. So you can continue to call people you disagree with “racists”, stalk and harass all you want, just like it’s always been.

  • Henry Wood

    I bring up the KKK because your party has so heartily embraced racism, featured an unrepentant segregationist (who ran for president as a segregationist) as a US senator until 2002, and has such strong support from racists.

    Oh, and you love Pat Buchanon.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You see, Jeff, Brisket is not a commenter here. That makes all the difference. Read the rule. I didn’t make it. I simply abide by it.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Is that about another commenter, Jeff?

  • Bobby Brady

    You don’t realize it, but I’m a secret government operative and I’m exorcizing mind control experiments on you which cause you to post comments here.

  • Pablo

    No, calling everyone a racist is childish and unseemly. And your modus operandi.

  • Henry Wood

    Break out the violins!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQ6eHeBrhM

    In the real world, there isn’t any question that Pat Buchanon is a racist.

  • Anonymous

    The Independent party did that?

    I though you and your type brought up the KKK and such so much because you might be unaware of the history or were confused on a point.  Turns out you were just getting it wrong

  • OSTL

    “Don’t make up words that end in “-tards.”

    http://www.mediaite.com/online/new-mediaite-commenting-guidelines/

  • Henry Wood

    It’s sad that all conservatives are running away from the republiklan party nowadays.

    I mean they still vote republiklan, still defend republiklans, still promote republiklans…but they’re INDEPENDENT!!!

    Or just pretending to be independent.  Perhaps you guys should form a new party…the Pretendipendent Party.

  • Anonymous

    Face it, lunatic-lefties, buchanan is one of the few people on the  M(ore)S(ocialism)from N(itwit)B(iased-socialist)C(lowns) network who can SPEAK ENGLISH. Without him, you’d be left with the likes of maniacal moonbeam meghan “more smarter” mccain and race-baiter sharpton, who NOBODY can understand.

  • Anonymous

    ooo… another excuse to lay out a link proving the historical relationship between the Democratic party and institutionalized racism that counters modern attempts at diversionary, race-baiting, identity-politics issued spin.

  • Anonymous

    pat should just return to his roots of bigotry, ultra conservatism and rascism. . . back to faux. . .

  • OSTL

    you’re wasting your time with henry the sock puppet. he seems to have forgotten how libruls suddenly started calling themselves “progressives” a while back. einstein, he’s not. ;)

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    About other commenters. Not about oneself.

  • Anonymous

    Allow me my cheep entertainment, OSTL.

  • Anonymous

    I think he aggravated an old knee injury while goose-stepping.

  • Anonymous

    The latest form the rumors are taking appears only to be manifestations
    of pressure from the usual suspects to get Buchanan fired rather than
    anything tied to reality.  The Griffin quote is confined to the present
    with regards to the content of Pat’s book not being MSNBC discussion
    material.  Dumb for him to float that, but it makes perfect sense considering the editorial bent
    over there.

    So this is nothing but the typical play by the left at intellectual whitewashing, only now its on full display.

  • Anonymous

    Just go on over to Fox Pat where your bigotry, hate, and racism will be tolerated, encouraged, and rewarded.

  • Anonymous

    Good, Pat was great, he was so good at annoying all sorts of people. Lots of fun

  • Anonymous

    lol….you know you are one. You enjoy getting away with it.

  • Anonymous

    Yep. Not happy to hear he is having medical issues but happy to hear he has not been fired.

  • Henry Wood

    Well then Pal,

    You shouldn’t have anything to worry about.  Your party (Pretendipendent-Republiklan) will dominate the vote among all minority groups.

    Or not.

  • Pablo

    How exactly does one “get away” with having a particular opinion, or rather how does one not “get away” with it?

    I know plenty of really smart, really successful black folks. You’re not one of them. I know lots of white morons. You’d be one of them, if you were white, racist.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe the party more deserving of support – mine and that of other independents (as long term statistical trends demonstrate) – is the one open to individuals who take strong stances on substantive matters that concerns me (as, for one, a philosophical view of governemnt limited in its scope in keeping with traditional views on liberty) and will concern itself with attracting people based on that as opposed to one that merely seeks to (as your assumptive crowing attests) maintain political dominion over an assortment of ethnic groups by basely and obviously ginning up racial resentments; even as such is only made possible through perversions of history.

  • Anonymous

    wow.  really trying to have me banned OSTL? So much for freedom of speech.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Politics-culture-Reasoned-America/100001284363960 Politics-culture Reasoned Amer

    Does Pat have any CURRENT plans?
    lol

  • OSTL

    if i wanted u banned u wouldn’t be here. im just testing the flag button

  • Anonymous

    When the only tool you have is a Spork. You will see every problem as Spam.

  • Anonymous

    Hahahaha.

    Smart, successful black folks? lol, the only black person you know is Herman Cain……and look at him now!

    Unlike you, I am smart, successful and not racist. I run a family business. 

    Tell me, if you know a lot of black people, the meaning of my username. 

  • Anonymous

    err, okay.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    makes you wonder why Phil even still has a job let alone running MSNBC

  • Чёрт Возьми

    That is exercising. Exorcising is what priests do.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    If he shows up on MSNBC anythime this month then we will see.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WXK6VG7UTIU5HOFLEEOX25VD4 Chuck Lynch

    Just don’t let the cycle and hammer slap you in the ass on your way into one of BO’s gulags that are soon to come!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WXK6VG7UTIU5HOFLEEOX25VD4 Chuck Lynch

    Big Bon….no, you’re the one showing your biasness….most definitely!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WXK6VG7UTIU5HOFLEEOX25VD4 Chuck Lynch

    No…..Pat Buchanan left MSNBC to meet with Ron Paul………I’m placing my bet on Paul selecting Pat to run as his Vice Presidential running mate…….!!!!!  All you neocon warmongers out there…including talk show host Michael Weiner (Savage) and Sen. McCain……eat your hearts out!!! 

  • Bobby Brady

    Dammit, too bad you aren’t my spellchecker plug-in!

  • Чёрт Возьми

    Nope. Just another gov’t operative, building the same list of suspicious persons as you are. ;-)

  • Bobby Brady

    Keep up the good work Agent Dammit!

  • Anonymous

    He’s toast.  Apparently he was on Hannity this afternoon, blaming the gays, the coloreds, you know, usual suspects in his book(s) that no one reads.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CQWUTBF2KSSVOXCR4PSN66L2PM James

    Then Ron will lost if he get’s the nod.

  • Anonymous

    People like Chuckles Lynch really make you wonder. . . . .

  • Anonymous

    I agree with you. O’Donnell seems to think if he says anything critical of islam, he’ll get Rushdied. What he fails to grasp is that not even radical muslims watch MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    You won’t get banned. I think they just want us to be nicer to each other. :) I for one sincerely intend to try.

  • Larry Linn

    Which Mental Institute is providing Buchanan with his medical treatments?

  • Anonymous

    I like your name …LOL   Well done

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UN6ISCH7OWM54RJFVBKQA2ZF6U Ralph

    He should be happy to be suspended by this bunch.After all more people watch paint dry than watch Msnbc.

  • http://twitter.com/fedupjeff Jeff Chiacchieri

    I was given the book as a Christmas present and liked it
    very much. Most of the information has been written about before and he put it
    all together well. What I think the people need to get out of it how equality
    & racism are used to control where war has always failed.

    The Clinton admin laid the groundwork for the Bush admin who
    laid the groundwork for the Obama admin etc., see the pattern?  In my opinion, outside of the economic issues
    that 99%+ of the people do not understand allowing the ruling class to suck out
    all the wealth through the Federal Reserve since its inception, there is
    another half of the base of the problem in the people today preventing them
    from awakening to save the Republic. This Pat lays out well. Obama like those
    before him know where equality is enthroned freedom is destroyed, consider for
    a moment all the obvious injustices done in the name of equality, the freedoms
    inhibited, and the financial cost! Our founders disbelieved the notion of
    equality embraced today, LBJ embraced it, so since then our government has been
    trying to create an egalitarian society based on that goal, and it is being
    used to kill the Republic.

    People need to understand how racism and equality is used as
    a political weapon so the ruling class force history/oppression to repeat
    itself against the people. Once the civil rights movement ended segregation it
    moved on to social & economic equality in 1965. Most Americans have been
    conned to believe all inequality is due to racism and they believe that is root
    of our problems, not to understand how racism is being used by Obama to instill
    inequality, not to mention blaming the same ideology uses the constitution as
    the cause for this nightmare, but in reality straying from the constitution has
    caused ALL of the problems that define what we suffer under today. History
    shows us that when faith dies it destroys the culture, then killing the
    civilization, then killing off the people. Today America has become a
    self-worshiping nation obsessed with cultural diversity and the communist idea
    of equality, creating the indoctrinated populous of today. Before the 1960s
    equality meant every citizen had the same constitutional rights and equal
    protection of existing laws. That led to ending segregation as was much needed,
    but the civil rights movement attached many other destructive goals since. Were
    entitled to equal rights, not equality, there is a huge difference and by
    design the people, through their government, have been taught to not understand
    this. Many throughout the centuries have sent this message. Freedom has nothing
    to do with making all equal, it provides the opposite as we are all born with
    different abilities, nature by design makes us all unequal, and in a free
    society, the opposite of communist one, is why the middle class was created and
    Americas people were able to flourish to reach our potential like never before
    in history. That scenario created an exceptional America, the one being exploited
    for many decades now. The Federal Reserve since its inception and what the
    civil rights movement turned into after 1965 is not the intent of what our
    founders planned for us, what we have now is the opposite.

     

    Racism/equality is an efficient political weapon. Orwell
    showed this in Animal Farm saying “all animals are created equal” but
    the people never are and the illusion to achieve equality for all always ends
    up, as history, and current events clearly show, to establish a dictatorship
    for the few. While Obama is preaching equality to the masses, who is all the
    remaining wealth being rapidly transferred to? And who gets the power? As
    always the ruling class that’s who! Looking at previous revolutions that also
    used equality as a weapon, as Obama is doing, we look back to Russian, China
    and Cuba, we saw the elite that took over were more brutal than who they
    replaced. And thanks to Obama I guarantee race will become more of a factor in
    the planned crisis ahead. Not to mention white people are a rapidly emerging
    minority in America, it’s been a necessary part of this several decades old
    plan to achieve cultural and socioeconomic dislocation in America. Thanks to
    Obama the tactics of Jim Crow are back! 50 years ago Dr King envisioned a day
    when people would not be judged by the color of their skin, well were in
    reverse only the color of the victims have been reversed. All colors against
    white is Obamas motto and more importantly, what the majority cannot
    understand, is this is anything but a formula for social peace. This is our
    most recent bad history repeating itself, insanity enough, this drives the
    support for Obama from the indoctrinated masses. Dr Kings theme was NOT to make
    everyone equal except the ruling class, but thats where we are rocketing towards.
    That is the communist goal! King said ” I have a dream that one day this
    nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, we hold these
    truths to be self evident that all men are created equal” Under Obama the
    spiritual and moral disintegration of the country has gone into overdrive, and
    on top of that the hardest working and most productive citizens are Obamas main
    target, who are in the final phase of being completely destroyed/eliminated
    along with the Republic. America has devolved to the point where the top 50%
    now pay 97.2% of the taxes, and the bottom 50% pay 2.8 %. This is all the end
    phase of a 100 year old cycle, and its existence is still unimaginable to most
    citizens.

    The closer the people get to removing Obama and or proving ineligibility,
    the more I doubt we will see elections, if we do it will probably mean Obamas
    owners successfully made deals to insert their next puppet. This government is
    almost set up for Orwellian style internet control, DHS is expanding to
    dominate the American people, our military is being studied for those that
    won’t kill Americans, or deliver nerve gas and bio-weapons, so they can be
    removed or discharged, and all the indicators are in DHS and Military
    information. These plans are near completed for martial law, gun confiscation,
    FEMA detention centers, work camps, slave labor prisons etc., where the ruling
    class/NWO move on to transfer the remaining wealth of the people for the next
    phase of mass depopulation. Seems to me we have no choice but to implode, and
    the suffering from an economic collapse will awaken those whose choose to
    remain complicit today, leaving America’s people with the political emotions of
    Nationalism and violence. And as history shows us that brings people together
    against the tyranny and oppression upon us.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4WXK6VG7UTIU5HOFLEEOX25VD4 Chuck Lynch

    If you disagree with a lefty and they can’t develop an arguement to counter wuth they will fall back and call you a racist……….kind of like a tactical retreat/running away!!!

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