Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts
Showing posts with label affirmative action. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Rachel Maddow Fact Checks Pat Buchanan in a Follow-Up Segment

Last week I posted the video of a debate from The Rachel Maddow Show between host Rachel Maddow and MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan. The debate focused on the Supreme Court nomination of Sonia Sotomayor by President Obama. Buchanan claims that Sotomayor was simply an unqualified "affirmative action candidate" for this job and that since her education relied on affirmative action, there are more qualified candidates that Obama could have picked. The debate spilled over to discuss affirmative action in a broader sense which Buchanan states is an "evil" program of which the primary goal is to discriminate against white males.

Last night Rachel Maddow did a follow-up segment during which she examined some of the statements that Pat Buchanan made and just how truthful they are. The clip is below: