Pat Buchanan Forced to Explain ‘Your Boy’ Remark After Heated Debate With Al Sharpton
- Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:25am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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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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ConservativeResponse
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:10amRace Card! Surprise!
Report Post »Alky
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:51amI guess he should have said, “Obama, your girl.” That wouldn’t be racist at least.
Report Post »Race baiting at it’s worst! :(
oneshiner
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:53amIf we’re right the racist make us wrong. If we’re wrong the racist still make us wrong. One can use a word and it’s ok, another can use same word and all hell breaks loose with pointing fingers. Does anyone remember the race baiting when Clyburn & his group walked through the Tea Party members and Clyburn claimed (falsely) that he was spit on and called racist names? No one ever stepped up with proof to claim the $100,000 when the whole thing was covered by many cameras & audio.
ltoney65
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:28amAl Sharpton is not a news caster. He is a SHYSTER lawyer. Remember the Twana Brawley case. Hey Al, did you ever pay the three hundred thousand dollars you were fined for that case? Just like the left, always rewarding these people for very bad behavior. You, talk out of both sides of your mouth, SWINE!
Report Post »chazman
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:31am… oops. My boy just had a cow on TV! Al ‘not so’ Sharpton is MY boy, aren’t ya? Yes you are!!
Report Post »Lumpy Dum Dum’s!! Yes you are!!
VegasGuy
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:55amBoy, oh, boy. Did Buchanan step in it.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:02pmAin’t My boy, !! MUST be Al’s boy….OBMSN..
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:22pmGotta love it.. well Obama is 50 now he MIGHT appreciate being called a boy..lol.. I wouldn’t BOTHER to change my wording.. YOUR BOY.. is a term that is used by ALL people of ALL colors.. and IF Sharpton doesn’t like it TO D*M BAD.. next time he should tell Sharpton that OBAMA is his HOMEY.. LOL.. and refer to the DEMOCRATS as a POSSE.. I would LOVE to see Sharpton’s head EXPLODE..
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:34pmYou have got to love how MSNBC picks Pat Buchanan to be it’s representative token Republican on the network to speak for all conservatives. Well looks like Pat ALMOST fell into one of the Rev Al’s race baiting traps…. I said almost because he Pat pointed out that it was a sports reference and didn’t…
But I’m not afraid to step in one of Rev Al race traps so here goes….
NoMomma Obama is a man child; a whiny pouty lil boy!
BOY!!! BOY!!!! DID YOU JUST CALL A BLACK MAN BOY??? YES I DID HE ACTS LIKE A SPOILED LITTLE CHILD, ALWAYS LYING, BLAMING EVERYONE ELSE, AND WHINING… OH THE WHINING… He whines and pouts and whines and pouts as much as he lies. This is NOT how a responsible grown adult should act. This is how a child acts. And when said child is male he is a boy. Race has nothing to do with it so do me a favor… stop with the race baiting!!!! It gets old. It exposes you for what you truly are AL, a race baitor, a poverty pimp, a boy, because next to NoMomma Obama no one whines and pouts more than Rev Al and Jesse Jackson….
Hey bud gotta light!
Report Post »michael48
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:48pmindeed , it was a major mistake…it’s “Soros Boy”…there that fixes that…next…
Report Post »Classical Liberal
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 1:38pmAl sharpton once again shows off how intellectually flawed he is. The “your boy” statement I’d used to sarcastically criticize an individuals choice or pick in sports and in business. For example, when someone recommends a new hire to a boss, and it turns out they suck or just don’t work out, it’s on the back of the guy who made the recommendation. It’s “his boy”.
Most blaze readers do not require such an explanation because most already understood it. They understand it because they are not grown man/children who have never worked a days labor in their life. They are not the type to become successful by insisting that everyone else is the problem like some lame ex-con.
Sharpton really is a small and pathetic man, very much like “his boy” Obama.
Report Post »THELOVE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:02pmHe should have said this President.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 3:22pmWell I agree..Buchanan should be made to explain why he said “your boy” when he should have said..“Your pair of clownshoes”.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 3:50pmi would have responded with… “really? get over yourself.”
Report Post »v-vet1968
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:15pmI d call him fat a__, and a moron!
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on August 4, 2011 at 10:55amI would have said: “I didn’t stutter; he’s YOUR boy”!!
Report Post »bill oswald
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:08amMSNBC has fallen to new low levels when they have to put Al “The White Racist” on their network.
Report Post »sweathog1948
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:24amThat station is a perfect example of what not to believe.
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 1:01pmYo pwesednt ?? …..I couldn’t stand to watch the full clip..
Report Post »Made my eyes water..What genius hired this guy ? WOW !!
Cheetosareus
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:07am“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?”
Maybe Pat Buchannan is the liberals tar baby. Those two boys, Sharpton and Jackson, have evidently kicked off a campaign to paint conservatives as racists. They are obviously trying to pick up the votes of those whites who have developed a “white guilt complex” from listening to the liberal propaganda over the years. I for one am not buying into any guilt. They have had 146 years to better themselves. It didn’t take that long to build the pyramid at Giza.
Report Post »The Big Pickle
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:36amBack in 1858, Abraham Lincoln said “I can conceive no greater calamity than the assimilation of the black race into White culture as our social and political equals…..”
No words ever spoken were more truthful.
Report Post »I_Hate_Libs
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:41amI would like to clarify if I may…Obummer is not my president!
The horror of the Democrat mind.
Report Post »novelator
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:42amListen, every time Sharpton and Jackson call “racism” and make a big fuss, they get to raise their speaking fees. God forbid they should ever actually work toward ending racism. That would cut off their income, all of it, which is why they “champion the cause of racism” while never actively working to “end racism.”
Report Post »romadave
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:50ambig pickle, take a hike! You are a loser.
If you claim to be a conservative you certainly don’t speak for me.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:10amNobody is buying your tainted product pickle. Please do us all a favor and find someplace else to peddle your racism. Thank you.
Report Post »Diablo4965
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:06amWhat esle would you expect from a political pimp !
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:14amOMG! Diablo4965, you’re sooo right!!
Report Post »novelator
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:03amAnd where would Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson be without racism to champion?
Poor. Broke, like the rest of us. Ignored like the majority of us. Low income.
That racism is big business. Does that make Sharpton and Jackson capitalists? Methinks so.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:03amIt was a classic display of the OWG not having the sense to apologize and move on.
Feisty Pat started out saying, “President” several times when referring to O’Bummer and after conjuring up the “brier patch” image, fell into the “boy” description that offended Al Sharpton. After the aggressive Sharpton correctly pointed it out, the equally combative Buchanan was hooked, and could not back down, so he said it several more times.
BTW, this Blaze version of the MSNBC tape was cut off with a lot more boy talking left to hear! I listened to it in the car live and the segment lasted 3-4 minutes before I tuned over to Mark Levin.
TEA
Report Post »MHP
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:36amI see your backwards counterpart encinom has died.
Report Post »reports a car smash got him.
tifosa
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:00pmSo what’s new? breitbarted vid. Same thing happened with the Norah O’Donnell vid. The first part of her statement at the press conference wa “Democrats are saying,“ headline in theblaze was ”You gave them everything they wanted we got nothing” as if SHE was saying that about the press. Hhhmm, it appears that thread has disappeared…????
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:13pmTifosa! Spooky happenings here!
Remember the threads about Scrappy Coco (R-Plantation) Fighting Words Email to Lil’ Debbie Wazzat-Shiz?
GONE- NADA- Disappeared!
WTF Blaze?
Report Post »rumpleforeskin
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:02amThe fact that Sharpie even has a show on this channel demonstrate‘s it’s desparate attemp for attention/audience. I can’t wait for 2012. When this president is gone and people like Sharpton will have no platform, we can get this country back on course.
Report Post »Beckisdelusional
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:28amBeck lead everyone as far as attention and audience went. How did that work out for him lol…
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:40amWell considering he is creating his own brand of TV, I would say Glenns honesty and willingness to bring what others are to scared to to the table is working out quite well. So what’s your point Delusionalboy?
Report Post »SON OF JEFFERSON
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:02amWhen you cant win the argument change the subject by looking for anything percieved to be racist and go on the attack. And when has this President ever showed any respect for the right
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:00amI saw that and Sharpton went right after it.. It was not racist at all. Obama IS a boy. He has no accomplishment but whining, complaining, scheming and pointing fingers. He is no leader of men..
Report Post »Then Sharpton started calling everyone boy… This is the charlatan of tawana brawley, lacrosse, and a legion of other false claims.. The Mail order Minister is an extremist bigot and a racist..
HairOfTheDogSob
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:55amTake the credit you deserve black person…I never said all blacks are idiots..just 97.5% ofthem..look at what you vote for…oh thats too difficult for africans to understand
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:04amBeg to differ. This myth that black people are stupid comes from the same sharpton/jackson that seeks to misportray, marginalize and then exploit. THAT IS what community organizing is. division by groups, marginalize and then exploit using fabrication, hate and fear…
Report Post »ALINSKY’s Rules for radicals. And radicals they are. Hapless nonetheless..
MONICNE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:08amThanks for the inspiring comment, fellow Taxed Enough Already mainstream voter!
Enjoy being at home in your four white walls all day. Bless Ya.
TEA
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:50amJeez, Pat Buchanan dare say something questionable to the one Al (race baiting,ghetto pimp, delusional live in the past merchant of racial hate and bigotry who brings a sense of entitlement to anyone that listens to the damn old fool) Sharpton.
The azz lives for controversy, takes ANYTHING to start his well worn triad. I remeber a rant by Buchanan a couple years ago, he needs to drag that out of the closet and bid his time
Report Post »HairOfTheDogSob
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:52amYour black brother..bary
None of you know who your father is
Report Post »Beckisdelusional
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:30amNone of them know who their father’s are? I guess that‘s better then father’s like yours taking you to church and then molesting you afterwards…
Report Post »Khedewia
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:46amIt’s not offensive if a black person says that to another black person, but it is if a white person says it. I don’t think Buchanan meant any disrespect. He was just using the lingo, but because he’s white, he’s not allowed. Sharpton – get over it.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:55amwell Al has no problem with blacks refering to whites with slurs that makes him a hypocrit and when he uses terms to describes whites other than caucasin or euroamerican he’s using slurs
Report Post »AL IS A HYPOCRITICAL BIGOT
UlyssesP
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:56amI had a black guy once tell me all about “my boy Bush” assuming I voted for the man. I actually sat out 2000 and 2004 and 2008. I corrected him that I have no “boy”.
Report Post »Not anymore. Try it again black man. I will call you ****** to your face and laugh as I watch that color you use as an excuse for all you shortcomings as a man drain away from your face.
MONICNE
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:07amUlysses you are not worth calling boy. You go, girl!
Black Pekoe TEA
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:16amPlease Mr. Jew have mercy upon us and free us from desegregation! Please you can have all my money… all my belongings just please release us from this intolerabe condition of plurallism, diversity and multicult which you force down our throats!!!! We use to be such a happy people in America until you took over.
Ever consider returning to Israel? Wouldn’t you be more happy there? You could create a wonderful multicultural society in Israel? Wouldn’t that be great?
Report Post »Xpat48
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:46amHe’s your boy Sharpton, not mine!
Report Post »OhSuzieQ
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:03amHe’s not my {Boy} President…I didn’t vote for him!!
Report Post »Applehead
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:09amIf there is nothing racial then conservatives need to not back down bc that is what they want! Stay strong and turn it back on them bc they are the true racists! Remember the Devil is the accuser!
Report Post »ImJusSayin
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:24amMe neither !
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:33pmI screwd up, can I have My vote back..Lied to us all ;;
Report Post »Promise I won’t do THAT again..ain’t my boy no mo !!
Servant Of YHVH
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:45amBuchanon PLEASE QUIT APOLOGIZING, just because these liberal wackos can do only one thing and that is start yelling racism and hatred and all the rest of their idiotic rhetoric whenever someone says something truthful and they liberal wackos can’t deny it. This is their standard backup, now all these people need to quit apologizing unless you are pretending to be obama. If that’s the case then apologizing is mandatory for everything including breathing.
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:44amPat Buchannan isn’t racist. Negros have simply claimed certain words to be offended by. “Boy” is just one of them along with “you people” and “colored” The things they call each other would curl your hair. Getting offended at most everything White people say is just a way of trying to beat them up. I for one am not falling for it.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:47amExactly, now we (us crackers) can’t use the word boy? That’s rediculous. It used to be a southern word with no race connotations. Look at Dukes of Hazzards…those were “good ole boys.” And they were white.
Report Post »ColoradoMaverick
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:41amPat, don’t you know that offensive words like boy are no longer allowed in todays PC climate? You can threaten to cut BO’s knarbles off, but you must be a black man to get away with it, isn’t that right Jessie? You can claim that BO is your boy and belongs to the black community, but only if you are black. You can call each other the N word, but only if you are black. BO is allowed to call the tea party “tea- b a g g e r s” but only if you are BO. Pat Buchanan does not represent Conservatives.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:37amalsharpton, read what I wrote about your evil twin jessejackson. Put your name in his place in the prayer. Same goes for you, you sniveling, lying, evil lump of coal!
Thank YOU, GOD, for these two evil, vile, hate-filled and hateful men. Their words and actions show us how NOT to be and where loving things and using people will lead us.
In JESUS’ SWEET AND MIGHTY NAME, before WHOM someday those two worthless sacks of something will bow and say, “Whoops!” Amen!
Report Post »wesleyapril
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:52amAmen!
Report Post »handsoffmystuff
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:35am‘boy’ is not offensive to the white half of Obama
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:44ammy thoughts exactly!
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:34amThe race card is in full play bc it is nearing the elections.
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:33amJust another side-show; and unworthy of watching.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:43amAgree……… who cares other than a few libturds that want to make hey. The racist card has a zero balance.
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:44amHey AL He doesn’t act like our President he acts like the liberals Prsident…SO your boy would be the correct description of Obama. And turely he doesn‘t act like the liberals president either HE ACTS LIKE HE’S CAMPAIGNING TO BE THE LIBERAL’S PRESIDENT. There‘s nothingh about him that’s American in his ideological make up. He’s not the POTUS, HE’S THE DOTRSP
Report Post »Dictator Of The Radical Socialist Party
PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:32amWhy not? It’s their standard MO.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:29amBoy, some boy’s have thin skin. Atta Boy Al, how to get your panties in a bunch . Boy , I am glad that his boy in the Whitehouse had no boy’s. Then Barry‘s boy would try to finish the Al’s boy’s job of destroying America.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:29am.
Report Post »I say, I say Boy! Al cracks me up…..
burr99
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:29amAs Herman Cain said, the only thing the liberals have is name calling.
Report Post »wesleyapril
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:28amRev. 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
To me this is what more offensive – so he is going to finish us conservatives that will stand up to him? :)
And some woman, motherofsix said yesterday “its horrible that foxnews can never show the proper respect and dignity to the president by not capitalizing president – dear – look up and see what your people did – notice no capitalization :) xoxo
Report Post »hightide
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:43amOf course they are trying to finish off conservatives. We no longer have free speech and their goal is to silence us completely. But we will not go away.
Report Post »wesleyapril
Posted on August 3, 2011 at 8:51amNope, we won’t :) Not till they kill us. :)
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