Pat Buchanan: United States has been ‘de-Christianized’

The United States has lost one of its core guiding lights – its Judeo-Christian focus – said one conservative pundit, reflecting on the tragic and senseless shooting death of an Australian man in Oklahoma on a baseball scholarship, whose life was allegedly snipped by three self-proclaimed bored teens.

He was speaking of the Christopher Lane, 22, who was shot in the back while jogging near his Oklahoma college. Three teens were arrested in his killing – ages 15, 16 and 17 – and as various media have reported, police say one of them said they had nothing better to do, so they shot him.

On Fox News on Wednesday evening, Buchanan expressed shock and sadness at the killing.

“I think it raises a question: Where did these kids come out of? Where did they come from to get the idea that this was sort of a good thing to do and a lot of fun? I think we’ve got to take a look at the culture that they grew up in,” he said.

Regardless, the shooting exemplifies the coarsening of America – the decay of the nation’s morals and values.

“The country has been de-Christianized, and these kids have clearly been desensitized,” he said, Newsmax reported. “I think what you’ve got here are products of the cultural, social, moral revolution that overthrew all the standards by which previous generations lived.”

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Alec Baldwin to host MSNBC political talk show

A winning combination, for sure ...

MSNBC reportedly has a new primetime lineup for its fall political talk show programming – Hollywood’s very own Alec Baldwin.

He’s going to take the replace the 10 p.m. “Lockup” prison documentary series, Mediaite reported. The show’s not yet titled but the content is determined: Mr. Baldwin will be hosting a political show that allows him opportunity to espouse his liberal leanings.

One MSNBC unnamed source told Mediaite that while the network was a fan of Baldwin, executives aren’t confirming the show.

Baldwin would bring a colorful history to the network, though. In June, he took to Twitter to trash a British journalist as a “toxic little queen,” Breitbart reported. The reason? The journalist reported that Baldwin’s wife was using social media during a high-profile funeral service. In 2011, Baldwin was booted from an airplane for refusing to obey an attendant’s directive and stop playing a computerized Scrabble word game. And in 2007, he was publicly shamed for calling his daughter a “rude, thoughtless little pig” in a voicemail message that made the media rounds, Breitbart reported.

Earlier controversies: In 1998 he said he’d like to “stone Henry Hyde to death” for that senator’s involvement in the President Clinton impeachment hearings.

On top of that, Baldwin filled in as a headline reader and news teaser on MSNBC’s “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell” in 2012, using what the Los Angeles Times described as a delivery that reminded of his “30 Rock” sitcom character: Watchers were left waiting for the punchline, the paper said. 

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