Pat Buchanan Tells Al Sharpton "Your Boy" Obama Got "Whipped" by McConnell

Pitting newly minted host Al Sharpton against longtime conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan was bound to generate a potent shouting match, no matter what the topic. But given Buchanan’s record of questionable comments, it’s hard not to find something off-color about his debate with Sharpton today, where, discussing the debt, he argues that “your boy,” President Obama, was “whipped” by Sen. Mitch McConnell, and adds a “briar patch” reference for good measure.

The debate centers around who got the post around the debt deal, and both predictably argued that their side decimated the other. That said, Sharpton noted that the narrative going into 2012 was far more favorable to the Tea Party thanks to the deal: “not only did they they did get all they wanted, they set up a narrative now for the 2012 election where it will be around tax cuts.” Buchanan responded facetiously, “please don’t throw me under the briar patch!” a saying typically meant to indicate reverse psychology that happens to come from the same “Uncle Remus and Legends of the Old Plantation” fable that gave us the term “tar baby”

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