VIDEO: Rachel Maddow vs. Pat Buchanan, MSNBC 7/16/09

Yikes, Rachel wants to socially engineer the supreme court. And she kept misrepresenting what Buchanan argued.

The Raw Story also misrepresented Buchanan by putting in quotes words that he didn't say.

I want Sotomayor on the court, but for way different reason than Maddow.

I also have to disagree with how Rachel Maddow went about trying to push Pat Buchanan's answer/butons.

She should have asked the most telling of questions and she touched on it and walked away from it in order to out-shout him, which is "Is Sonia Sotomayor as qualified for this position as the next person?

He kept trying to push that she got an unfair advantage with affirmative action. He has a bit of a point in his argument. But his views are skewed so far that he doesn't see the true thing he could fight against. What he (I assume) is against is lower qualified people beating out higher qualified people based solely on race.. I agree with him. But what I was taught is that affirmative action is to use the more racially diverse pick if ALL ELSE IS EQUAL.

@ Jay Smooth - Maybe a topic you can look into is today's minority views on Affirmative Action. Because if folks think its a quota that needs to be met and not the qualifications there really is an issue. At least in my humble opinion.

@Belve: I can give you a 'minority view' on affirmative actions. I'm fascinated by how it is always presented as a 'minority' issue when the largest group of beneficiaries has ALWAYS been white women.

Hashim, you just say things like this to be contrarian, right? :) I didn't see Rachel misrepresent him in this clip, and didn't hear anything from her about socially engineering the court, but even if I did, do you really find that more worthy of comment than his rant about how white "people built this country" etc?

The only minor point I'm not sure I agree with is her framing of it as "privileging race" which I don't think is exactly the problem with Pat's position per se.. it's the nature of his racial argument that's problematic, not just the fact that he's making a race-based argument.

I love how osama is more "black" speaking in front of NAACP. If Barry would of spoken like this in Iowa, we may of had a "slightly" better president and maybe even a president that was actually born of two "American Citizens" (most of you illiterates don't know where McCain was born without googleing it).
Democrats pander to minorites to keep them down, to keep their vote.