Sean Hannity Thinks Nobody Heard What He’s Been Saying About Cliven Bundy Before Today

Suddenly the whole thing was a “prescription for disaster”
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And here it is, Sean Hannity’s five minutes of gloriously defensive right wing ranting; he seems to think everybody will now just forget he’s been praising Cliven Bundy for weeks as a hero of the conservative movement and a true patriot.

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1 Ian G.  Apr 24, 2014 1:56:37pm

The racist right hasn’t turned its tail and run this badly since Pickett’s Charge.

I’m enjoying every minute of it.

2 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 1:56:47pm

AAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaaa *cough,cough, cough*

Whew!

3 Dr. Matt  Apr 24, 2014 1:57:45pm

You made your bed, dipshit, go sleep in it.

4 iossarian  Apr 24, 2014 1:58:14pm

God this is hilarious. The right wing blogs are all wheeling out their house-trained mid-intellect writers to explain how you just can’t use Bundy as a brush to tar all conservatives, and then all their drooling followers pile into the comments to point out that Bundy has it right and black people were far better off on the plantations.

5 Charles Johnson  Apr 24, 2014 1:59:04pm
6 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 1:59:14pm

There has to be a Benghazi in there somewhere.

7 EPR-radar  Apr 24, 2014 1:59:36pm

For RWNjs, Cliven Bundy is a hero of the conservative movement and a true patriot.

Regrettably, he was not media-trained enough to know that the dog whistles and euphemisms are necessary deceptions. //

8 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:01:12pm

re: #7 EPR-radar

For RWNjs, Cliven Bundy is a hero of the conservative movement and a true patriot.

Regrettably, he was not media-trained enough to know that the dog whistles and euphemisms are necessary deceptions. //

“You see, I belong to a certain secret organization, I don’t think I gotta tell you it’s name….”

9 iossarian  Apr 24, 2014 2:01:37pm

re: #7 EPR-radar

For RWNjs, Cliven Bundy is a hero of the conservative movement and a true patriot.

Regrettably, he was not media-trained enough to know that the dog whistles and euphemisms are necessary deceptions. //

That’s too kind. Most of the nutters support him in his willingness to speak bluntly of these self-evident truths. The likes of Loesch and Hannity are desperately trying to clamp the manhole cover down again.

10 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:01:43pm

“…Didn’t pay for the grass”, AND, didn’t get his cattle off the land.

11 Gus  Apr 24, 2014 2:03:09pm

re: #6 jaunte

There has to be a Benghazi in there somewhere.

It’s in the lab.

12 EPR-radar  Apr 24, 2014 2:03:54pm

re: #4 iossarian

God this is hilarious. The right wing blogs are all wheeling out their house-trained mid-intellect writers to explain how you just can’t use Bundy as a brush to tar all conservatives, and then all their drooling followers pile into the comments to point out that Bundy has it right and black people were far better off on the plantations.

I will have to make a special point of checking National Review Online at a propitious time for maximum raw sewage generation activity.

This evening should be just about right.

The failure of W F Buckley’s little project of putting a civilized veneer on US conservatism is now complete. It is now, and always has been, rooted in white supremacy, misogyny, twisted religious bigotry and every other rotten aspect of human nature.

Let us hope that gets reflected in elections sooner rather than later.

13 Iwouldprefernotto  Apr 24, 2014 2:04:09pm

What’s wrong with the following phrase

Sean Hannity thinks

14 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:04:11pm

Hannity pretending indignation over a conservative’s racist comments.

15 Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2014 2:04:46pm

Well, let’s be honest. Are any of you surprised that Bundy turned out to be an old fashioned racist? I’m not. And I’m not surprised that Hannity and other Rightwingers are supporting this lawbreaker. The Rightwingers loved Zimmerman too for shooting down an unarmed Black kid. This is nothing new.

16 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2014 2:07:27pm

re: #10 jaunte

“…Didn’t pay for the grass”, AND, didn’t get his cattle off the land.

AND, my money is on that pesky detail that Bundy didn’t do a single thing to improve the grazing land like he was supposed to do when he was paying the grazing fees, and certainly not any time in the 20 years he refused to pay.

17 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:07:56pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

Well, let’s be honest. Are any of you surprised that Bundy turned out to be an old fashioned racist? I’m not. And I’m not surprised that Hannity and other Rightwingers are supporting this lawbreaker. The Rightwingers loved Zimmerman too for shooting down an unarmed Black kid. This is nothing new.

I confess I was a LITTLE surprised how quickly and thoroughly he flamed out.

18 KerFuFFler  Apr 24, 2014 2:09:05pm

re: #4 iossarian

God this is hilarious. The right wing blogs are all wheeling out their house-trained mid-intellect writers to explain how you just can’t use Bundy as a brush to tar all conservatives, and then all their drooling followers pile into the comments to point out that Bundy has it right and black people were far better off on the plantations.

We need to screen capture the hell out of this before the comments get scrubbed!

19 iossarian  Apr 24, 2014 2:09:15pm

re: #17 GeneJockey

I confess I was a LITTLE surprised how quickly and thoroughly he flamed out.

“He went to pieces so fast people got hit by shrapnel.”

—Douglas Adams

20 EPR-radar  Apr 24, 2014 2:09:46pm

re: #17 GeneJockey

I confess I was a LITTLE surprised how quickly and thoroughly he flamed out.

An ongoing feud between the RW nut jobs and their “thought leaders” on the pros and cons of expressing open racism could have considerable entertainment value, and might even affect elections.

21 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:10:20pm

“Recipe for disaster.”
He can still pretend this is mostly a critique of the BLM trying to enforce a legal judgement.

22 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:10:23pm

re: #19 iossarian

“He went to pieces so fast people got hit by shrapnel.”

—Douglas Adams

Icarus has his moment in the sun…

23 dog philosopher  Apr 24, 2014 2:10:55pm

could it be possible? could even hannity manage to figure out that he has been associating himself with racists for most of his life?

nah

24 Jack Burton  Apr 24, 2014 2:11:08pm

This is basically Hannity’s Chewbacca Defense.

If Chewbacca does not live on Benghazi you must acquit.

25 Ian G.  Apr 24, 2014 2:11:44pm

re: #15 Patricia Kayden

Well, let’s be honest. Are any of you surprised that Bundy turned out to be an old fashioned racist? I’m not. And I’m not surprised that Hannity and other Rightwingers are supporting this lawbreaker. The Rightwingers loved Zimmerman too for shooting down an unarmed Black kid. This is nothing new.

Not at all, and I’ll be completely not surprised when the loons who inhabit the comments sections of the right-wing noise machine turn on Hannity and Loesch and Beck as drooling sycophants to the left. I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.

I just hope the even more deranged, hateful member of the noise machine (Limbaugh, Levin, Horowitz) turn their guns on Hannity. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

26 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:13:31pm

re: #25 Ian G.

Not at all, and I’ll be completely not surprised when the loons who inhabit the comments sections of the right-wing noise machine turn on Hannity and Loesch and Beck as drooling sycophants to the left. I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.

I just hope the even more deranged, hateful member of the noise machine Limbaugh, Levin, Horowitz) turn their guns on Hannity. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Eventually in its drive for purity, the whole movement may disappear up its own asshole.

27 EPR-radar  Apr 24, 2014 2:14:38pm

re: #23 dog philosopher

could it be possible? could even hannity manage to figure out that he has been associating himself with racists for most of his life?

nah

Hannity knows damn well he’s been aligning with racists for his entire career. However, this is all supposed to be some kind of secret, and openly saying that slavery was (or might have been) better for blacks is a big problem because it takes the ‘crypto-’ out of crypto-racism.

28 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:15:02pm

Just a balder version of the “Liberal Plantation” argument.

29 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:16:31pm

re: #28 jaunte

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Just a balder version of the “Liberal Plantation” argument.

And the whole bit about blacks possibly being better under slavery is something that Bachmann said. Didn’t hear any condemnation from Hannity then. They’re upset because this guy made them look bad. Hannity is a guy by his own admission looked up to Limbaugh and Hannity himself palled around with a known white nationalist too.

30 Ian G.  Apr 24, 2014 2:16:38pm

re: #27 EPR-radar

Hannity knows damn well he’s been aligning with racists for his entire career. However, this is all supposed to be some kind of secret, and openly saying that slavery was (or might have been) better for blacks is a big problem because it takes the ‘crypto-’ out of crypto-racism.

Bingo. One thing that drives the right INSANE is the suggestion that racism animates them. Then their martyr du jour turns out to be a big fat racist and proud to shout it from the rooftops. Bundy has burned them badly. He’s a gift to the left. That’s why Hannity is doing this.

31 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:18:20pm

re: #28 jaunte

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Just a balder version of the “Liberal Plantation” argument.

Which boils down to “Liberals think blacks can’t succeed on their own, whereas we think blacks are too stupid to come to their own conclusions, and so greedy and venal their loyalty can be bought with welfare and foodstamps. Who’s the real racist?”

32 Skip Intro  Apr 24, 2014 2:18:49pm

re: #23 dog philosopher

could it be possible? could even hannity manage to figure out that he has been associating himself with racists for most of his life?

nah

No, not at all. What happened is Fox News panicked after Bundy became the unfiltered version of Fox News and told their hacks that the Bundy story was over and to cover their - and Fox’s ass - stat.

Fox News caters to the lowest of the lowest common denominator, but they still have to sell advertising. They’re not like Limbaugh who can survive on PSAs and payola from the Heritage Foundation and Karl Rove.

33 TedStriker  Apr 24, 2014 2:19:22pm

re: #29 HappyWarrior

And the whole bit about blacks possibly being better under slavery is something that Bachmann said. Didn’t hear any condemnation from Hannity then. They’re upset because this guy made them look bad. Hannity is a guy by his own admission looked up to Limbaugh and Hannity himself palled around with a known white nationalist too.

Ol’ Hal “from North Bergen” Turner…such a wretched POS.

34 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:19:38pm

re: #31 GeneJockey

Which boils down to “Liberals think blacks can’t succeed on their own, whereas we think blacks are too stupid to come to their own conclusions, and so greedy and venal their loyalty can be bought with welfare and foodstamps. Who’s the real racist?”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard cons actually use this as an argument. It boils down to their pathetic belief that government aid is akin to slavery and their even stupider/bigoted belief that only minorities use those programs.

35 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:20:21pm

re: #33 TedStriker

Ol’ Hal “from North Bergen” Turner…such a wretched POS.

Yep, I remember hearing about Hal when Sean was acting like Reverend Wright was the worst person since ever.

36 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:20:44pm
“…Arizona congressional candidate Jim Brown (R) compared entitlements to slavery in a Facebook post Wednesday, explaining that entitlements give politicians “power over the people allowing them to control us” much like slave owners that “took pretty good care of their slaves and livestock.”
thinkprogress.org
37 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2014 2:20:50pm

how impressed I am with Clive Bundy’s presser:

It’s all over but the tears…

38 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:21:09pm

re: #34 HappyWarrior

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard cons actually use this as an argument. It boils down to their pathetic belief that government aid is akin to slavery and their even stupider/bigoted belief that only minorities use those programs.

And they’re unable to understand why this argument doesn’t win blacks and other minorities over to their side.

39 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:23:00pm

re: #28 jaunte

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Just a balder version of the “Liberal Plantation” argument.

etc.

40 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:23:30pm
41 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:24:22pm

“People turn out to be complicated and unpredictable.”

- Kevin D. Williamson of the National Review, who recently compared Bundy to Gandhi

42 alpuz  Apr 24, 2014 2:24:38pm

He’s concerned. It’s a proportionate concern. I loath this fuckin’ d-bag.

43 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:24:54pm

re: #39 wrenchwench

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etc.

They just don’t get how the plantation metaphor is not only stupid but ridiculously offensive. Fact of the matter is African Americans choose to support the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party in the Civil Rights era chose to take it seriously while the Republican Party and the right decided that the votes of Strom Thurmond was more important than the votes of people like MLK.

44 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:25:15pm

re: #41 jaunte

“People turn out to be complicated and unpredictable.”

- Kevin D. Williamson of the National Review, who recently compared Bundy to Gandhi

Kevin D. Williamson, who is completely predictable.

45 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:25:26pm

re: #41 jaunte

“People turn out to be complicated and unpredictable.”

- Kevin D. Williamson of the National Review, who recently compared Bundy to Gandhi

Gee, you don’t say Kevin, maybe that’s why you shouldn’t compare some idiot to Gandhi.

46 Egregious Philbin  Apr 24, 2014 2:25:40pm

Hannity is such a “word that is also used to describe a cat”

He is spinning faster than a pulsar.

But, he promised to go out to the ranch and stand with his pal, come on Sean, you have a lear jet…go.

47 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:26:19pm

re: #38 GeneJockey

And they’re unable to understand why this argument doesn’t win blacks and other minorities over to their side.

Yeah stupid minorities don’t know what’s good for them and they should appreciate having their political party of choice likened to be being enslaved.

48 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:26:22pm

It would be fun to be in the Daily Show writers’ meeting this afternoon.

49 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2014 2:26:53pm
50 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:27:30pm

re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Tomorrow: Clive Bundy is a distraction from Benghazi and Obamacare. I guarantee you that is coming if not already.

51 Aunty Entity Dragon  Apr 24, 2014 2:27:48pm

re: #7 EPR-radar

For RWNjs, Cliven Bundy is a hero of the conservative movement and a true patriot.

Regrettably, he was not media-trained enough to know that the dog whistles and euphemisms are necessary deceptions. //

All he had to do was call them negro moochers “urban thugs” and we would be in tall cotton today…waiting for those shiftless darkies to come pick it before they got a couple of stripes on their malingering backs…

52 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:28:17pm

re: #43 HappyWarrior

They just don’t get how the plantation metaphor is not only stupid but ridiculously offensive. Fact of the matter is African Americans choose to support the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party in the Civil Rights era chose to take it seriously while the Republican Party and the right decided that the votes of Strom Thurmond was more important than the votes of people like MLK.

It just boggles the mind that Conservatives cannot understand how deeply racist the plantation metaphor is.

53 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:28:28pm
54 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:29:20pm

Almost a side note from there:

Black musicians in the 1940s and 1950s like Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald couldn’t sleep or eat in the casinos where they performed. A manager at the New Frontier drained all the water from his whites-only swimming pool after Rat Pack member Sammy Davis Jr. took a swim in it one night. Although singer Lena Horne was allowed to stay at the Flamingo when she performed there, management burned her sheets and towels after she checked out.

55 nines09  Apr 24, 2014 2:29:26pm

Savor the Derp. They stepped in a pile of shit so deep they are choking on it. BUNDY!!!!!!!

56 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 24, 2014 2:29:43pm

RWNJ’s reaching ever further back into the past in the wingnut TARDIS.

57 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:30:31pm

re: #56 Pie-onist Overlord

RWNJ’s reaching ever further back into the past in the wingnut TARDIS.

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Band name alert:

wingnut TARDIS

58 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 24, 2014 2:30:43pm

THIS MADE ME LOL.

59 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:30:59pm

re: #53 jaunte

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Yeah because Cliven Bundy is just like a Holocaust victim.

60 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 24, 2014 2:32:02pm

HURR HURR!!!! A GOSSIP TELL-ALL CANCELS TEH ENTIRE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT!!!!! U LOSE DEMOCRATZ!!!!!

61 Kragar  Apr 24, 2014 2:32:20pm
62 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:32:36pm

re: #56 Pie-onist Overlord

RWNJ’s reaching ever further back into the past in the wingnut TARDIS.

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that’s all they have. “Hey your party was racist generations ergo so ignore our contemporary racism.”

63 Ian G.  Apr 24, 2014 2:33:14pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!! A GOSSIP TELL-ALL CANCELS TEH ENTIRE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT!!!!! U LOSE DEMOCRATZ!!!!!

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I’m surprised they’re not citing Jay-Z lyrics to “prove” Democrats are racists.

Or maybe they are.

64 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 24, 2014 2:35:03pm

BUT NO BIRTH CONTROLS FOR TEH SLUTS!!!!!!

65 Ian G.  Apr 24, 2014 2:35:08pm

re: #61 Kragar

Yup, these twits think “we” are coming for the “church members”.

Yeah, that’s why my atheist, lib’rul self is marrying an observant Catholic woman: to put her family in the concentration camps.

66 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:35:21pm

re: #52 GeneJockey

It just boggles the mind that Conservatives cannot understand how deeply racist the plantation metaphor is.

Seriously. I don’t know why conservatives refuse to see how that kind of shit offends black voters. Same thing with saying that they just vote Democratic for “free stuff” because you know all those black people are on welfare and stuff.

67 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:35:27pm

Yay! My landlord just told me he will set up my swamp cooler for me next week. I hate doing that.

68 Dr Lizardo  Apr 24, 2014 2:35:50pm

The Freepers aren’t too happy with Sean Hannity right now.

Hannity’s is a wimp, afraid of his own shadow.

Get out of the way, Sean.
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Amen. As soon as any conservative gets into trouble, the other so-called Republicans or so-called Conservatives run for their lives. Cowards! Gutless cowards.
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So, Sean, did you just read the text or did you hear how he actually made the statement?

You know, with true compassion for the dependent and down-trodden instead of the fakery that you get from the left?
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The Duck Dynasty guy made similar comments after being prodded to do so.

Frankly, so have some black community leaders but they can get away with it in this politically correct cesspool called the media.

I actually find the comments somewhat refreshing…
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you know.. I don’t know how to feel about this.

since no one wants to actually have a conversation about the matter.

Something like this is brought up, and immediately people (like Hannity just did) scream racism!!!! ignorance!!!! and the discussion ends..

um…. WHY WHY WHY can’t we discuss this? if we are ignorant… PLEASE enlighten us!!!!!!

I am BEGGING anyone who knows the answer to PLEASE enlighten me! I don’t want to be ignorant anymore so PLEASE PLEASE help me understand this issue better than I currently do, because I honestly am sort of inclined to agree with Bundy, that in many ways blacks today are worse off than they were.
And if I am wrong, just simply explain why so I can understand.
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I’ve heard Sean run for the tall grass time & time again whenever a caller would venture onto the subject of race.

Many times he wouldn’t even let them finish their often innocuous point. Instead of exploring and/or refuting their point he’d quickly terminate the conversation with a note of disgust.

He’s a coward afraid to death his show might get the Sandra Fluke treatment.

Either this or he’s just a phony who really doesn’t believe there’s anything wrong with the government’s official line on race relations.
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Sometimes you have to call a spade a spade to make your point. Far too many people want to state their point in an “elegant” manner.

Screw being elegant when it comes to describing the rot that is ruining this country.
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In America today, there is nothing more damning than to be called a racist.

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It is the ultimate taboo. We cannot honestly address some the most bluntly obvious failures in our culture because of this taboo.
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I am sick of not being able to speak our minds on this are other matters, I have a lot of Southern friends who feel this same way and are not good with words. They do not have a raciest bone in their body, just telling it like it is. The duck and run bunch are already running, watch the video He is just speaking his mind and the Truth hurts. Most people I have heard complain about it are usually raciest that’s why they think this is so bad.If he was good enough to support before this, then He still should be. I’m tired of running to hide every time these things come up.

And so on. FR is indeed one of the cesspools of the internet.

69 TedStriker  Apr 24, 2014 2:35:55pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

Almost a side note from there:

WTF is wrong with some people?

Although singer Lena Horne was allowed to stay at the Flamingo when she performed there, management burned her sheets and towels after she checked out.

Shit, I would have kept them and put them on my bed; Lena Horne was smoking hot back in the day.

/too creepy? ///

70 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:36:03pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

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Almost a side note from there:

Interesting find but it doesn’t surprise me at all.

71 Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 24, 2014 2:36:03pm

re: #7 EPR-radar

This is why Atwater urged conservatives to back away from using epithets and talk more abstractly about bussing, states rights, etc. Bundy must not have gotten the memo.

72 Decatur Deb  Apr 24, 2014 2:36:53pm

re: #66 HappyWarrior

Seriously. I don’t know why conservatives refuse to see how that kind of shit offends black voters. Same thing with saying that they just vote Democratic for “free stuff” because you know all those black people are on welfare and stuff.

They know. It’s about the only fun they get.

73 Bulworth  Apr 24, 2014 2:38:21pm

because I honestly am sort of inclined to agree with Bundy, that in many ways blacks today are worse off than they were. And if I am wrong, just simply explain why so I can understand.

Really, just asking questions here, just really, really want to understand. ////

74 Gus  Apr 24, 2014 2:38:28pm

re: #71 Flying Squirrel Girl

This is why Atwater urged conservatives to back away from using epithets and talk more abstractly about bussing, states rights, etc. Bundy must not have gotten the memo.

“Cliven Bundy needs to learn that this is the 21st century and you can’t walk around saying negro, negro, negro. You have to talk about states rights.”

75 Aunty Entity Dragon  Apr 24, 2014 2:38:42pm

re: #55 nines09

Savor the Derp. They stepped in a pile of shit so deep they are choking on it. BUNDY!!!!!!!

Go check out the Bundy Ranch facebook page (No, I will not link)

Chock full of toasty wingnut flavor…

76 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:39:15pm

“…Even as Bundy held a press conference that turned into an even more racist meltdown, Fox News was running a segment criticizing the media for not pushing Hillary Clinton on Benghazi.”
thinkprogress.org

77 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:40:06pm

re: #76 jaunte

“…Even as Bundy held a press conference that turned into an even more racist meltdown, Fox News was running a segment criticizing the media for not pushing Hillary Clinton on Benghazi.”
thinkprogress.org

Have to give Fox credit, they’re predictable.

78 Bulworth  Apr 24, 2014 2:40:07pm

I am sick of not being able to speak our minds on this are other matters

If there was only an Internet or talk radio or Fox News cable station. /

79 blueraven  Apr 24, 2014 2:40:17pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!! A GOSSIP TELL-ALL CANCELS TEH ENTIRE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT!!!!! U LOSE DEMOCRATZ!!!!!

[The Anti-Feminist @FemsHaveBallz
Follow
LBJ once said “I’ll have those ni***rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years” but Cliven Bundy is the problem. K #BundyRanch #tcot]

Please, she has to go back 50 years or more to quote mine?

Also, LBJ might have been crass as hell, but he was mighty responsible for the Civil Rights Act. What has Cliven Bundy done for Black America?

80 Aunty Entity Dragon  Apr 24, 2014 2:40:31pm

re: #74 Gus

“Cliven Bundy needs to learn that this is the 21st century and you can’t walk around saying negro, negro, negro. You have to talk about states rights.”

And urban thugs buying tbone steaks nutritious seafood on ebt cards.

81 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:40:35pm

re: #69 TedStriker

WTF is wrong with some people?

Shit, I would have kept them and put them on my bed; Lena Horne was smoking hot back in the day.

/too creepy? ///

It makes perfect sense to me. Maybe I’M creepy, too.

82 Decatur Deb  Apr 24, 2014 2:41:05pm

re: #73 Bulworth

because I honestly am sort of inclined to agree with Bundy, that in many ways blacks today are worse off than they were. And if I am wrong, just simply explain why so I can understand.

Really, just asking questions here, just really, really want to understand. ////

Shouldn’t take more than 3 minutes with a whip to clarify that for him.

83 Aunty Entity Dragon  Apr 24, 2014 2:41:54pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

Damn.

That is some weapons grade radioactive insanity there.

84 Bulworth  Apr 24, 2014 2:42:45pm

LBJ once said “I’ll have those ni***rs voting Democrat for the next 200 years”

He said this confirmed. Pruf. FACT. /

85 3eff Jeff  Apr 24, 2014 2:43:05pm

Well. Lost that bet. Dropped like a live grenade. Although, I will note: Hannity still claiming he was right all along and has never once had to change his mind.

The master stroke to me, though, was the bit about putting a lien on the ranch or the cattle and then enforcing that. Is it just me, or is the difference between that and the BLM rounding up cattle trespassing on federal land an extra piece of paper?

86 Kragar  Apr 24, 2014 2:43:37pm
87 Bulworth  Apr 24, 2014 2:44:19pm

Hey look over there, everybody, BENGhazi!!!!1

Why hasn’t anyone asked anybody any questions about BENGhazi????!??!?!?!
/

88 HappyWarrior  Apr 24, 2014 2:44:47pm

re: #87 Bulworth

Hey look over there, everybody, BENGhazi!!!!1

Why hasn’t anyone asked anybody any questions about BENGhazi????!??!?!?!
/

They need to ask Cliven what he thinks happened at Benghazi.

89 Aunty Entity Dragon  Apr 24, 2014 2:44:51pm

re: #69 TedStriker

WTF is wrong with some people?

Shit, I would have kept them and put them on my bed; Lena Horne was smoking hot back in the day.

/too creepy? ///

Watch old video of Lena Horne singing “Stormy Weather” and your tv power cord will start smoldering. She was seriously hot. Lauren Bacall “Put your lips together and blow” kind of hot.

90 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:44:59pm

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I just turned 37. I learned to pick cotton. I pick cotton every year if possible to remind me that my father and grandfather picked cotton, so did at least four generations before him. I’ve written extensively about the experience of picking cotton on this blog. It has a lot to do with food and how people were nutritionally, intellectually, spiritually and politically malnourished all in service to the King. I’m not nearsighted enough to claim that it was only African Americans who suffered from their service to his Majesty. Poor whites knew the life as well-especially after 1870-but certainly Black history was irrevocably changed when the American economy was kept in boom thanks to its exports of enslaved grown(free labor) cotton. The whip and the lash help subsidize further industrialization of the North, mass European immigration, and from these consequences and others-came the push West as the East burst with mass population growth.

What Mr. Bundy fails to understand is basic history. Without a moral imagination, immoral fantasies of humans managed like animals bloom. Cotton fever was responsible for the long term destabilization of the Black families of which Mr. Bundy feigns mused interest. During the antebellum period-an enslaved Black person-especially a male-could expect to be sold at least once or twice in a lifetime. Although we haven’t verified it yet-we found a bill of sale for a “Negro” named Wash and his brother William on the steps of the Lancaster County, SC courthouse just before the Civil War. The Wash described may have been my own great-great-great grandfather and his brother. Washington was the great-great or great-great-great grandson of a man brought from central Ghana in the 1700′s-stripped of his name at Charleston harbor.

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91 Aunty Entity Dragon  Apr 24, 2014 2:48:13pm

Essential viewing for today:

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92 wrenchwench  Apr 24, 2014 2:48:41pm

re: #90 wrenchwench

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Now I need that button that turns a comment into a Page.

93 jaunte  Apr 24, 2014 2:48:52pm

re: #86 Kragar

That guy is 180 degrees off.

94 theheat  Apr 24, 2014 2:49:09pm

re: #64 Pie-onist Overlord

IIRC, that’s a saying from the ag community. Oddly, Cliven Bundy doesn’t have to pay to feed the ones he breeds because he’s letting the government feed his ‘stock for free.

95 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:50:28pm

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Somewhere, possibly in The Grapes Of Wrath, I read a description of picking cotton, dragging behind you an ever-heavier bag, how the cotton dries out the fingertips till they crack and bleed, etc. And that’s leaving aside the malnutrition, absence of liberty, beatings, rape, theft of labor, families broken up for a profit, etc.

96 Bulworth  Apr 24, 2014 2:50:43pm

“….Defend a 67 year old man and his property..”

His property. Yeah, OK. //

97 missliberties  Apr 24, 2014 2:51:16pm

Hope John Stewart grabs on to this flip flop.

But the slaves were good because the whole family lived in the barn!!

Nevermind that whole part that they owned and traded like mules.

98 Decatur Deb  Apr 24, 2014 2:53:55pm

re: #92 wrenchwench

Now I need that button that turns a comment into a Page.

Good find, that.

99 Decatur Deb  Apr 24, 2014 2:57:30pm

re: #95 GeneJockey

Somewhere, possibly in The Grapes Of Wrath, I read a description of picking cotton, dragging behind you an ever-heavier bag, how the cotton dries out the fingertips till they crack and bleed, etc. And that’s leaving aside the malnutrition, absence of liberty, beatings, rape, theft of labor, families broken up for a profit, etc.

Wife was in the Tennessee fields as a child, being watched while her mother picked. Mother was at it for food, wife was young enough to call her picking ‘recreational’. (And no, we don’t consider ‘cotton-pickn’ a slur.)

100 Ming  Apr 24, 2014 2:58:06pm

re: #76 jaunte

“…Even as Bundy held a press conference that turned into an even more racist meltdown, Fox News was running a segment criticizing the media for not pushing Hillary Clinton on Benghazi.”
thinkprogress.org

“We’ll always have Benghazi.”

101 TedStriker  Apr 24, 2014 2:58:58pm

re: #86 Kragar

;-P

102 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 2:59:45pm

re: #100 Ming

“We’ll always have Benghazi.”

“We didn’t have, we’d lost it till you came to Casablanca Cliven Bundy opened his trap.”

103 Patricia Kayden  Apr 24, 2014 3:11:36pm

re: #43 HappyWarrior

They just don’t get how the plantation metaphor is not only stupid but ridiculously offensive. Fact of the matter is African Americans choose to support the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party in the Civil Rights era chose to take it seriously while the Republican Party and the right decided that the votes of Strom Thurmond was more important than the votes of people like MLK.

But if you think that Blacks are inferior, of course you cannot believe that they may have political views and support political parties which don’t reflect your own superior, enlightened taste.

Why the hell should Black American support Republicans? I’ve yet to hear a rational argument on that.

104 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 24, 2014 3:16:39pm

There’s a fire about 1/4 mile down the road from me right now.
And it’s headed for the forest.

105 GeneJockey  Apr 24, 2014 3:16:55pm

re: #103 Patricia Kayden

But if you think that Blacks are inferior, of course you cannot believe that they may have political views and support political parties which don’t reflect your own superior, enlightened taste.

Why the hell should Black American support Republicans? I’ve yet to hear a rational argument on that.

Because Republicans think blacks are smart enough to stand on their own without help, although they’re too stupid to realize there’s no racism anymore, except for Democrats and blacks themselves, and they’re so immoral they can be bought with welfare and foodstamps, and if they’d just be more like us, they could be successful.

Seriously, I can’t come up with a reason.

106 Belafon  Apr 24, 2014 3:30:01pm

re: #79 blueraven

Actually, there’s not even any real proof that he made that particular statement.

107 djcelts  Apr 25, 2014 6:44:07am

You need to see Hannity’s first segment last night…..indescribable. He basically exonerates himself by showing all of the other things he was right about over the past 10 years.

108 darthstar  Apr 25, 2014 9:24:47am

re: #93 jaunte

I don’t know why Kragar engages with that racist.


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