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Pat Buchanan leaves MSNBC, citing ‘clamor from the left’

Prominent conservative commentator and former GOP presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan has left MSNBC after 10 years with the cable news channel.

Buchanan, who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 1992 and 1996, cited “an incessant clamor from the left” as the reason for his departure, The New York Times reported Thursday night.

A MSNBC spokesman confirmed the split, saying, “After 10 years, we’ve parted ways with Pat Buchanan. We wish him well.”

Buchanan’s last appearance on the network was back in October, as promoted his book warning of “the end of white America” and the shrinking of the “European and Christian core of our country.”

Some liberal groups pressured MSNBC to sanction or dismiss Buchanan for the views expressed in the book, titled, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”

However, the exact circumstances of Buchanan’s departure were unclear, according to The Times.

Buchanan was hired at MSNBC in 2002 after he had spent the previous twenty years hosting CNN’s “Crossfire” on and off.

Buchanan addressed the dismissal Thursday on the website of The American Conservative magazine, which he co-founded.

“In the 10 years I have been at MSNBC, the network has taken heat for what I have written, and faithfully honored our contract,” he wrote. “Yet my four-months’ absence from MSNBC and now my departure represent an undeniable victory for the blacklisters.”