Though it’s very possible you haven’t noticed, irrelevant Pat Buchanan is now a regular guest commentator on MSNBC. He’s their unique and versatile conservative, who they can count on to object to any issues concerning actual progress, as well as make figurative love to Mitt Romney on television, at any given time.

As a South Florida resident, I assumed that Buchanan would flatly disappear after the “Butterfly Ballot” debacle in the 2000 election. This is, of course, referring to when countless residents of Palm Beach, which contains a large liberal and Jewish population, were miffed after they voted for Reform Party candidate Buchanan in error, the result of a confusing placement of candidates on the ballot, when they in fact meant to vote for Democrat Al Gore.

Why was it implausible that Buchanan should receive the votes of 3,000 Palm Beach residents? Where do I start? Here is a sampling of Buchanan’s remarks on Judaism, courtesy of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR):

In a 1977 column, Buchanan said that despite Hitler’s anti-Semitic and genocidal tendencies, he was “an individual of great courage…Hitler’s success was not based on his extraordinary gifts alone. His genius was an intuitive sense of the mushiness, the character flaws, the weakness masquerading as morality that was in the hearts of the statesmen who stood in his path.” (The Guardian, 1/14/92)

Writing of “group fantasies of martyrdom,” Buchanan challenged the historical record that thousands of Jews were gassed to death by diesel exhaust at Treblinka: “Diesel engines do not emit enough carbon monoxide to kill anybody.” (New Republic, 10/22/90)

In his September 1993 speech to the Christian Coalition, Buchanan declared: “Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.” (ADL Report, 1994)

So, despite what I presume to be his own embarrassment that 3000 potential Jews could have voted for him, Buchanan has found a home on MSNBC, where he continues to push conservative propaganda, most likely because the channel needs someone to do it to achieve a look of balance.

Over the course of the 2008 Presidential primary elections, Buchanan has taken a liking to bashing Sen. Barack Obama as a sort of affirmative action candidate. This shouldn’t be surprising. See, Obama is black. I need only show one comment of many, again courtesy of FAIR, that Buchanan has made on the civil rights movement to explain his sentiments on the matter of race:

White House advisor Buchanan urged President Nixon in an April 1969 memo not to visit “the Widow King” on the first anniversary of Martin Luther King’s assassination, warning that a visit would “outrage many, many people who believe Dr. King was a fraud and a demagogue and perhaps worse…. Others consider him the Devil incarnate. Dr. King is one of the most divisive men in contemporary history.” (New York Daily News, 10/1/90)

In his March 21 blog entitled, “PJB: A Brief for Whitey,” Buchanan decided to weigh in on the widely circulated speech on race that Obama gave last week. His remarks here far exceeded the tenor of any of the comments Buchanan has made on MSNBC regarding the speech thus far.

The full blog can be found here. The following is a long excerpt from Buchanan’s vitriolic response:

What is wrong with Barack’s prognosis and Barack’s cure?

Only this. It is the same old con, the same old shakedown that black hustlers have been running since the Kerner Commission blamed the riots in Harlem, Watts, Newark, Detroit and a hundred other cities on, as Nixon put it, “everybody but the rioters themselves.”

Was “white racism” really responsible for those black men looting auto dealerships and liquor stories, and burning down their own communities, as Otto Kerner said — that liberal icon until the feds put him away for bribery.

Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America.

Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to.

This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.

Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.

Governments, businesses and colleges have engaged in discrimination against white folks — with affirmative action, contract set-asides and quotas — to advance black applicants over white applicants.

Churches, foundations, civic groups, schools and individuals all over America have donated time and money to support soup kitchens, adult education, day care, retirement and nursing homes for blacks.

We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude?

Barack talks about new “ladders of opportunity” for blacks.

Let him go to Altoona and Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for “deserving” white kids.

Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America? Is it really white America’s fault that illegitimacy in the African-American community has hit 70 percent and the black dropout rate from high schools in some cities has reached 50 percent?

Is that the fault of white America or, first and foremost, a failure of the black community itself?

As for racism, its ugliest manifestation is in interracial crime, and especially interracial crimes of violence. Is Barack Obama aware that while white criminals choose black victims 3 percent of the time, black criminals choose white victims 45 percent of the time?

Is Barack aware that black-on-white rapes are 100 times more common than the reverse, that black-on-white robberies were 139 times as common in the first three years of this decade as the reverse?

We have all heard ad nauseam from the Rev. Al about Tawana Brawley, the Duke rape case and Jena. And all turned out to be hoaxes. But about the epidemic of black assaults on whites that are real, we hear nothing.

Sorry, Barack, some of us have heard it all before, about 40 years and 40 trillion tax dollars ago.

It is blatantly obvious that he, himself, possesses deep-seeded hatred, jealousy, and resentment towards the black community. I could dissect Buchanan’s comments at length as fraudulent, but what’s the point? He writes as if Caucasians are the true victims of race, and there’s no reason to even try to fight this notion, because it’s utterly false.

He, in fact, possesses the same “static” worldview that Obama spoke of in his speech on race; instead of acknowledging the legitimacy of Obama’s ideas, he goes to great lengths denying them, while simultaneously fulfilling them.

To put it mildly, Buchanan’s comments are factually incorrect, ignorant, repulsive, and preposterous. Frankly put, Buchanan is full of shit. It’s way past time that MSNBC relieves him of his position at their network. As of now, they have yet to comment on his remarks. But when they do, I hope they recognize the need to “reject and denounce.”