Neo-nazi radio programs are completely acceptable venues for men who hold on-air positions on major news networks to promote their revisionist history World War II books, right? Right? I mean, obviously it's acceptable. Otherwise MSNBC would have gotten rid of Pat Buchanan by now. He appeared on the aptly-named Political Cesspool a couple of weeks ago to talk about his book, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. The stated mission of the show is to "represent a philosophy that is pro-White" and "to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races." Other recent guests on Political Cesspool include Willis Carto, whom TNR calls the most prominent anti-Semite in America, Mark Weber, the director of a Holocaust-denial organization, and Jared Taylor, the editor of a eugenicist publication. Pat Buchanan fits in with this bunch of fringe loonies, but why on earth do network execs continue to think a guy like this fits in at MSNBC? [TNR]

Tricky pronouns might have done John Edwards in on MSNBC this morning. After Edwards told the hosts at Morning Joe that whoever got his vote would get his endorsement, they were trying desperately to get Edwards to tell them who he voted for in North Carolina's primary. He attempted to play coy, until he accidentally spilled the beans by saying, "I just voted for him Tuesday." Considering the fact that it would be pretty pointless for him to endorse Hillary Clinton at this point, I think we can all make an educated guess about an upcoming Barack Obama endorsement.

Not to be outdone by CNN and its new documentary series about being black in America, MSNBC is airing a documentary Friday called Meeting David Wilson. It's about a young black man named David Wilson who, in the course of researching his family's history, finds the descendant of the white family that owned his ancestors. The man's name is also David Wilson.

The documentary airs Friday at 9pm, and it will be followed by a 90-minute "conversation" about race moderated by Brian Williams.

Hillary Clinton has threatened to boycott MSNBC after Chris Matthews made a series of inappropriate comments and another reporter said that her daughter was being "pimped out" for votes. But Barack Obama became the target of the news network's latest gaffe, when someone flashed a photo of Osama Bin Laden during a story about Obama. Haven't news directors been over the Obama/Osama issue with their employees by now?

Without naming names, NBC News announced Tuesday that it has reprimanded the employee responsible for the mixup, which took place as Matthews was previewing a story on the controversy over Obama's use of another politician's words. A picture of bin Laden briefly flashed on the screen with the headline "Words About Words."

"This mistake was inexcusable," MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said.

Barack Obama's camp said the apology was "noted" but had no other comment. [EUR]

Talking heads who are female or black are apparently only knowledgeable about two things — women and blacks. At least, those are the only two topics cable news shows call on them to discuss. Watchdog group Media Matters studied news show guests on Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN before, during, and after the height of the Imus controversy and found that a blacks were only invited to speak in significant numbers about the Imus controversy and other minorities and women were rarely seen at all. I wish I could have contacted Media Matters during the study to let them know that appearances by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, the go-to black experts of cable news, should not have been counted. Remove them from the study, and I bet the already dismal numbers decrease by half.

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