Pat Buchanan gets the ax from MSNBC, blames the left Pat Buchanan has been dismissed by MSNBC, the left-leaning news network, four months after the channel suspended him. In an angry post on his blog, conservative commentator Buchanan took his critics to task, writing, "After 10 enjoyable years, I am departing, after an incessant clamor from the left that to permit me continued access to the microphones of MSNBC would be an outrage against decency, and dangerous." Buchanan says the calls for his firing began with the publication in October of his book "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" about America's decline, which critics have called racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic. Upon his suspension, Buchanan quotes MSNBC President Phil Griffin as telling the press regarding his new book, "I don't think the ideas that [Buchanan] put forth are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC." Buchanan, a former White House communications director under Ronald Reagan and a former Republican presidential candidate, had been with MSNBC as a political analyst since 2002. On his website, Buchanan called his ouster "an undeniable victory for the blacklisters." Among the groups he cites as his accusers: Color of Change, Media Matters, the Anti-Defamation League and the Human Rights Campaign. In the closing of his post, he strikes a conspiratorial note, writing, "I know these blacklisters. They operate behind closed doors, with phone calls, mailed threats and off-the-record meetings. They work in the dark because, as Al Smith said, nothing un-American can live in the sunlight. Uygur out, Sharpton likely in at MSNBC President Obama chats with MSNBC's Al Sharpton Al Sharpton's controversial MSNBC gig praised by NAACP Photo: Pat Buchanan. Credit: Manny Ceneta / Getty Images