Colbert Calls MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan A ‘Reverse Civil Rights Leader’

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Posted 07/21/09 at 09:54am

Steven Colbert - Pat Steven Colbert wasted no time last night taking MSNBC correspondent Pat Buchanan's race-based attack on Sonia Sotomayor and making it absolutely laughable.

Huffington Post blogger Alex Leo has a great synopsis of the Colbert Report last night. He writes:

Stephen Colbert eviscerated Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh last night for claiming Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is racist and that white men are being discriminated against.

He referred to Buchanan, who has been appearing on MSNBC all week claiming Sotomayor has "a lifelong resolve to discriminate against white males," as a reverse civil rights leader, and showed a clip of him saying, "White men were 100% of the people who wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people who signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg." This, of course, prompted Colbert to say, "YEAH, where were the black guys during the Civil War? Come on, I'm not saying they all should have volunteered, just three fifths of them."

It stands to be seen whether GOP leadership will side with this absurd brand of race-baiting politics or come to grips with the new political reality as we enter the upcoming fight for real immigration reform.

PS- watch the video here.