RNC Spokesman on Cliven Bundy: Conservatives Are the Real Victims

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The Republican National Committee’s top spokesman, Sean Spicer, appeared on CNN today and said yeah, sure, Cliven Bundy’s racist comments were very very bad, but conservatives are the real victims here.

“I think the comments that Mr. Bundy made with respect to race and other things were inappropriate and wrong, 100 percent out of line and not part of the discourse we need to have,” Spicer said. “But that being said, what I find fascinating as the chief spokesman for the Republican Party is that when a guy has a problem with cattle grazing and has a discussion about the size of the federal government and the overreach of the federal government, makes a comment every reporter calls the Republican National Committee asking for comment.”

Spicer went on to accuse the media of ignoring incidents that involved Democratic politics.

“When similar incidents happen time and time again on the left,” he said, “there is zero coverage. Absolutely zero.”

Hilarious. Spicer somehow forgot to mention the numerous Republican politicians and pundits and radio hacks who, two days ago, were hailing Bundy as the conservative movement’s latest hero.

I suppose it’s a good thing Republicans are now scrambling to disassociate from Bundy, but why were they OK with the militias, threats to kill BLM agents, snipers, sovereign citizens, plans to use women as human shields, etc.?

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189 comments
1 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 12:11:42pm

Conservatives Are the Real Victims, day ending in y.

2 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 12:11:56pm

Youtube Video

3 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:12:46pm

BUNDY IS A TAKER CLASS LIBTARD!!

4 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:13:45pm

Personal Responsibility!

5 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:13:52pm

$5 that I know who Bundy voted for

6 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 12:15:06pm

re: #5 b.d.

$5 that I know who Bundy voted for

Every pirate votes for hisself.

7 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 12:16:01pm
8 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 25, 2014 12:17:28pm

When the BLM backed off the confrontation the other week, they left a secret weapon lying about the grounds…

…enough rope to hang themselves with.

9 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2014 12:18:24pm

You’ve got the ear of the nation…or at least a chunk of it…because of a property dispute with the BLM.

You got microphones pointed out you that can take your message around the world.

You make about half your speech about how black folks have been duped by the government and were better off as slaves. Not a comment embedded within a larger text; twenty grinding minutes of how minorites are “against us” because they take welfare money.

Somehow, your choice to take your moment of fame and make it about stale racist tropes is the fault of everybody who stood there and recorded what you said.

Yeah, it’s the horrible media that made this not about the BLM.

10 Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2014 12:18:35pm

Personal responsibility!!

11 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 12:19:06pm
“I think the comments that Mr. Bundy made with respect to race and other things were inappropriate and wrong, 100 percent out of line and not part of the discourse we need to have,” Spicer said. “But that being said, what I find fascinating as the chief spokesman for the Republican Party is that when a guy has a problem with cattle grazing and has a discussion about the size of the federal government and the overreach of the federal government, makes a comment every reporter calls the Republican National Committee asking for comment.”

Spicer went on to accuse the media of ignoring incidents that involved Democratic politics.

“When similar incidents happen time and time again on the left,” he said, “there is zero coverage. Absolutely zero.”

It’s easy to see what scoundrels like this dipshit really means…just disregard everything before the word ‘but”.

12 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 25, 2014 12:19:26pm

Frank says:

If there is a hell, it waits for them, not us!

13 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 12:19:57pm
“…what I find fascinating as the chief spokesman for the Republican Party is that when a guy has a problem with cattle grazing and has a discussion about the size of the federal government and the overreach of the federal government, makes a comment every reporter calls the Republican National Committee asking for comment.”

It’s that Bundy’s comments fitted so neatly into the stereotypical
rhetoric of the GOP:
Gingrich: “food stamp president”
Reagan: “welfare queens”
Untold numbers: “Liberal Plantation”

14 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:21:04pm

Dear RNC,
You guys pandered to this shit. Stop bitching that you’ve stepped in it.

16 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:21:11pm

Conservatives are always the victims and Raymond Shaw is the kindest and gentlest person I’ve ever known too.

17 Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2014 12:22:06pm

CNN will have a calf simulator showing us what it would look like in 2 years.

18 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:22:19pm

re: #14 Varek Raith

Dear RNC,
You guys pandered to this shit. Stop bitching that you’ve stepped in it.

Seriously. Maybe if they had an ideology outside of Noabama they wouldn’t do shit like this but no they only care about being anti-Obama at all costs because their base despises POTUS and the GOP are too cowardly to tell their base that Barack Obama isn’t a Kenyan Socialist Muslim who wants to destroy America.

19 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:22:40pm

re: #8 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

When the BLM backed off the confrontation the other week, they left a secret weapon lying about the grounds…

…enough rope to hang themselves with.

Yep. I bet most of us predicted it would backfire on the right for embracing this guy. Always seems to happen. Sad, that.

20 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:23:01pm

re: #17 Amory Blaine

CNN will have a calf simulator showing us what it would look like in 2 years.

Wolf Blitzer will try to find out what the cow’s accent would be and if he thinks this is good news for John McCain.

21 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:23:17pm

re: #17 Amory Blaine

CNN will have a calf simulator showing us what it would look like in 2 years.

Fire up the holodeck!

22 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 12:24:42pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Brings a dead calf on to raise sympathy, and then tells America we should be tough enough to look at a dead calf, no big deal. The man is seriously confused.

23 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:24:52pm

I swear though this victimhood makes Mitt Romney’s crap about the 47% even more funny and pathetic. Conservatives are the biggest victims in the world. Just ask them!

24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 25, 2014 12:24:59pm

That whole dead calf ploy woulda been real effective if he had been a bit more “media trained” and more restrained about “the nigra”…

25 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Apr 25, 2014 12:25:37pm

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

If only that calf had been a slave and not taken by the gov’t….something something.

26 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2014 12:25:58pm

re: #9 The Ghost of a Flea

Twisting a different knife:

All of these conservative pundits were willing to stand by Bundy while he talked about how he didn’t recognize the existence of the federal government, that the only lawful authority over him was the local sheriff, and his armed buddies were going to make sure that things were done his way.

That isn’t “small government,” that’s the 15th century Papal States.

27 GeneJockey  Apr 25, 2014 12:26:08pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

I swear though this victimhood makes Mitt Romney’s crap about the 47% even more funny and pathetic. Conservatives are the biggest victims in the world. Just ask them!

Nobody is more discriminated against in America than straight, white, Christian men!

28 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:26:21pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Obama kilt my calf!

//

29 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 12:26:31pm

Shorter Spicer: MBF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And his objet d’MBF happened to be the same one NJDHF posted on the dead thread this morning.

30 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 12:26:34pm

Bundy didn’t pay his bills, or feed this calf, so it died.

31 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:26:53pm

mmmmmm veal..

//

32 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:27:04pm

re: #27 GeneJockey

Nobody is more discriminated against in America than straight, white, Christian men!

Yep you gotta love it. Racism against blacks is non-existent or in the fact that things like welfare exist but the straight white Christian male can’t catch a break.

33 Bulworth  Apr 25, 2014 12:27:15pm
sure, Cliven Bundy’s racist comments were very very bad, but conservatives are the real victims here.

Will someone please think of the real victims here!!!!

34 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:27:49pm

You know who also killed calves?!?!?!

35 GeneJockey  Apr 25, 2014 12:28:53pm

re: #34 b.d.

You know who also killed calves?!?!?!

The Prodigal Son’s Dad?

36 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 25, 2014 12:28:56pm

re: #28 b.d.

Obama kilt my calf!

//

BLM stole my baby!
//

37 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:29:09pm

re: #33 Bulworth

Will someone please think of the real victims here!!!!

It’s terrible! Conservatives may have to explain why they stood toe to toe with a racist asshole who doesn’t understand why slavery was so bad and refers to blacks as “nigras.”Seriously for a bunch of people who talk about “personal responsibility”, conservatives and I hate to generalize here but man conservatives don’t practice it at all. There’s no “We may have screwed up in supporting this guy.” Nope, no sir, it’s blame the left for criticizing them for supporting him. Here’s a tip right wingers. STop embracing anyone who’s anti Obama and federal government just on instinct.

38 Bulworth  Apr 25, 2014 12:29:12pm
All of these conservative pundits were willing to stand by Bundy while he talked about how he didn’t recognize the existence of the federal government, that the only lawful authority over him was the local sheriff, and his armed buddies were going to make sure that things were done his way.

Yes, this. Although as mentioned downstairs, some like Krauthammer did take issue, but most embraced him like the second coming of Benghazi!

39 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 12:29:45pm

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That whole dead calf ploy woulda been real effective if he had been a bit more “media trained” and more restrained about “the nigra”…

re: #25 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

If only that calf had been a slave and not taken by the gov’t….something something.

A dead calf, cut down in the dawn of its life by welfare queens or young bucks scoping from their Cadillac.

/too much?

40 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:30:44pm

re: #22 jaunte

Brings a dead calf on to raise sympathy, and then tells America we should be tough enough to look at a dead calf, no big deal. The man is seriously confused.

I bet most see it as hamburger.

41 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:30:58pm

Matt Groening or Nostradamus?

42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 25, 2014 12:31:11pm

See me, veal me…

43 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 12:31:15pm

IF BUNDY HAD PAID HIS FEES, THAT CALF WOULD BE ALIVE TODAY!

44 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:31:32pm

re: #38 Bulworth

Yes, this. Although as mentioned downstairs, some like Krauthammer did take issue, but most embraced him like the second coming of Benghazi!

IT’s sad when Glenn Beck looks like the adult here. He too was one of the few that wasn’t standing with him though granted the cynic in me knows that Tear Boy is facing a serious libel charge.

45 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 25, 2014 12:31:34pm

re: #34 b.d.

You know who also killed calves?!?!?!

MH370?

46 Bulworth  Apr 25, 2014 12:31:44pm

“When similar incidents happen time and time again on the left,” he said, “there is zero coverage. Absolutely zero.”

“Like Robert Byrd being KKK and such, why no media talk about THAT????!??!?!” //

47 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:32:01pm

re: #36 Feline Fearless Leader

BLM stole my baby!
//

YOU DIDN’T MILK THAT!

48 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:32:20pm

Aren’t some of his cattle now feral?
I thought I heard that somewhere.

49 Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2014 12:32:22pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

Cliven Bundy Brings a Dead Calf on CNN Interview

Shame to waste all that veal.

50 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 12:32:28pm

re: #40 Varek Raith

There is a weird splitting going on with the bundyranch fans, in which people who gleefully mock vegetarians as wimps are keening about dead cattle.

51 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 25, 2014 12:32:34pm

re: #43 Kragar

IF BUNDY HAD PAID HIS FEES, THAT CALF WOULD BE ALIVE HE WOULD NOT BE ON CNN TODAY!

52 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:33:22pm

re: #46 Bulworth

“When similar incidents happen time and time again on the left,” he said, “there is zero coverage. Absolutely zero.”

“Like Robert Byrd being KKK and such, why no media talk about THAT????!??!?!” //

Yep no one knows that Robert Byrd was a KKK member. What I find most annoying with them pointing out Byrd repeateldy is they ignore that they embraced Jesse Helms who may have not been in the KKK but was much more racist in public life than Byrd was. That’s not to say I don’t have criticisms of Byrd but Helms was an ugly racist and the same GOP that shouts Byrd also embraced the Dixiecrat presidential candidate with welcome arms too.

53 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:33:39pm

New Republican 527 PAC

Mooooooooove On!

54 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 12:34:09pm

Ron Christie thinks this is about the word ‘Negro’, and not about ‘better off under slavery’. Too bad for him that most of his viewers are smarter than that.

55 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Apr 25, 2014 12:34:52pm

re: #39 TedStriker

A dead calf, cut down in the dawn of its life by welfare queens or young bucks scoping from their Cadillac.

/too much?

they wanted their T-bones.

56 GeneJockey  Apr 25, 2014 12:35:10pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Yep you gotta love it. Racism against blacks is non-existent or in the fact that things like welfare exist but the straight white Christian male can’t catch a break.

I actually saw that sentiment posted, numerous time, on the hunting forum. These are the same folks who simultaneously say there should be no affirmative action because our society should be colorblind, but racial profiling makes sense and if blacks don’t want to be stopped while driving nice cars they should stop other black from stealing so many nice cars.

Also the same people who simultaneously tell you that the CEOs getting paid tens of millions doesn’t affect their pay, and that ‘Union Thugs’ getting better pay than they do is why they can’t get better pay.

57 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 12:35:48pm
58 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:36:35pm

re: #57 Kragar

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Trollololol.

59 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 25, 2014 12:37:03pm
60 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:37:06pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

Ron Christie thinks this is about the word ‘Negro’, and not about ‘better off under slavery’. Too bad for him that most of his viewers are smarter than that.

Really that’s the spin? That’s even lamer than the spin they tried with Phil Robertson that wanted the focus just to be on his anti-gay comments which mind you was grosteque but so were his bigoted comments about blacks that were conveniently ignored by those who agreed with him about gays.

61 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:37:36pm

re: #56 GeneJockey

I actually saw that sentiment posted, numerous time, on the hunting forum. These are the same folks who simultaneously say there should be no affirmative action because our society should be colorblind, but racial profiling makes sense and if blacks don’t want to be stopped while driving nice cars they should stop other black from stealing so many nice cars.

Also the same people who simultaneously tell you that the CEOs getting paid tens of millions doesn’t affect their pay, and that ‘Union Thugs’ getting better pay than they do is why they can’t get better pay.

Yeah I know the mindset all too way unfortunately.

62 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:38:02pm

re: #57 Kragar

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Sad but true.

63 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 12:38:33pm

re: #52 HappyWarrior

Yep no one knows that Robert Byrd was a KKK member. What I find most annoying with them pointing out Byrd repeateldy is they ignore that they embraced Jesse Helms who may have not been in the KKK but was much more racist in public life than Byrd was. That’s not to say I don’t have criticisms of Byrd but Helms was an ugly racist and the same GOP that shouts Byrd also embraced the Dixiecrat presidential candidate with welcome arms too.

The party that welcomed disaffected racists to bring about the post civil-rights party realignment doesn’t get to be taken seriously on race until at least:

1) The fact of the southern strategy is admitted.

2) The welcome mat for neo-confederates and racists is withdrawn, both in elected leadership and in places like the National Review.

64 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2014 12:39:23pm

Fine, fine.

I’ll bow to libtard political correctness: African Americans were better off under slavery than they are sitting on their porches getting government checks.

65 Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2014 12:39:25pm

re: #57 Kragar

Youtube Video

66 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 12:39:58pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

Really that’s the spin? That’s even lamer than the spin they tried with Phil Robertson that wanted the focus just to be on his anti-gay comments which mind you was grosteque but so were his bigoted comments about blacks that were conveniently ignored by those who agreed with him about gays.

Yeah, that’s the spin, plus Harry Reid said the word Negro once, or something. Plus Biden said ‘articulate’, but the liburul media let him get away with it.

When they hear a Democrat say ‘better off under slavery’, then they can haul out the MBF.

67 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:39:58pm

re: #63 EPR-radar

The party that welcomed disaffected racists to bring about the post civil-rights party realignment doesn’t get to be taken seriously on race until at least:

1) The fact of the southern strategy is admitted.

2) The welcome mat for neo-confederates and racists is withdrawn, both in elected leadership and in places like the National Review.

I think Ken Mehlman did admit it back in 2004 and what do you know Limbaugh got pissed but you still didn’t see any trace of number two. I’d also settle for three an apology to minority communities for using them as scapegoats to get elected. The latter is why by the way I will never admire Reagan.

68 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:40:47pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

Yeah, that’s the spin, plus Harry Reid said the word Negro once, or something. Plus Biden said ‘articulate’, but the liburul media let him get away with it.

When they hear a Democrat say ‘better off under slavery’, then they can haul out the MBF.

Yep. Too true.

69 Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2014 12:40:48pm

re: #54 wrenchwench

Ron Christie thinks this is about the word ‘Negro’, and not about ‘better off under slavery’. Too bad for him that most of his viewers are smarter than that.

In a weird way he’s sorta right, because the “better off as slaves” argument is really not unusual among conservative politicians/pundits. But when Bundy prefaced that with “the nigra,” he made it very clear where that argument is coming from.

70 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 12:41:09pm

re: #64 The Ghost of a Flea

Fine, fine.

I’ll bow to libtard political correctness: African Americans were better off under slavery than they are sitting on their porches getting government checks.

That makes it ever so much better. ///

Seriously, what kind of world is it where ‘the nigra’ is apparently worse than the opinion that blacks were better off under slavery?

71 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:42:09pm

re: #65 Amory Blaine

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Pretty good.
Yet, she’s at fox.
*Shakes head*

72 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:43:29pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

In a weird way he’s sorta right, because the “better off as slaves” argument is really not unusual among conservative politicians/pundits. But when Bundy prefaced that with “the nigra,” he made it very clear where that argument is coming from.

I believe Bachmann said the same thing pretty much in the Republican primaries. I don’t recall any of her opponents calling her out on it. I think Frank had a great point last night when he said that white conservatives have no idea how utterly bigoted and condescending they sound when they try to claim that slavery wasn’t so bad and some crap about how at least with slavery the African American family unit was still intact which is utter bs of course knowing what we know what the slave trade did to families.

73 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 12:44:06pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

In a weird way he’s sorta right, because the “better off as slaves” argument is really not unusual among conservative politicians/pundits. But when Bundy prefaced that with “the nigra,” he made it very clear where that argument is coming from.

Honestly, the argument that blacks were better off under slavery can only come from a cesspit of neo-confederate racism. There is no other possibility.

74 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:44:27pm

You can’t brag about your party being the one that did emancipation when you’ve got people in your party today who don’t know if emancipation was a good thing or not. Just saying.

75 Charles Johnson  Apr 25, 2014 12:44:56pm
76 3eff Jeff  Apr 25, 2014 12:44:59pm

re: #17 Amory Blaine

CNN will have a calf simulator showing us what it would look like in 2 years.

They could just fire up Goat Simulator on air, and 90% of their viewers wouldn’t know the difference.

77 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 12:45:01pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

I think Ken Mehlman did admit it back in 2004 and what do you know Limbaugh got pissed but you still didn’t see any trace of number two. I’d also settle for three an apology to minority communities for using them as scapegoats to get elected. The latter is why by the way I will never admire Reagan.

Just an aside, but it’s funny that former RNC chairman Mehlman’s name gets mentioned in the context of Bundy’s (and the GOP’s) evermore-apparent bigotry, because IIRC, Mehlman came out of the closet within the past few years.

After he left his RNC post, of course.

78 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 25, 2014 12:46:14pm

re: #73 EPR-radar

Honestly, the argument that blacks were better off under slavery can only come from a cesspit of neo-confederate racism. There is no other possibility.

Yep. If you really mean that slavery is better than being on welfare than you should be advocating more whites being put in that state than blacks. Though, of course, you are also then openly advocating class war rather than race war. And that admission might not play so well in certain areas of the nut base.

79 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:46:52pm

re: #75 Charles Johnson

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HOW COME THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND STILL CALLS THEMSELVES THAT AND THAT IS OK!?!?!?!

80 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 12:47:10pm
“I think the comments that Mr. Bundy made with respect to race and other things were inappropriate and wrong, 100 percent out of line and not part of the discourse we need to have,” Spicer said. “But that being said, what I find fascinating as the chief spokesman for the Republican Party is that when a guy has a problem with cattle grazing and has a discussion about the size of the federal government and the overreach of the federal government, makes a comment every reporter calls the Republican National Committee asking for comment.”

Of course Spicer would love to keep the distracting race issue out of it, because the more profitable topic for the moneyed interests who dominate his party is how to begin to privatize some of the public lands in the west.

81 makeitstop  Apr 25, 2014 12:47:12pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

Pretty good.
Yet, she’s at fox.
*Shakes head*

They pay really well if you can sell the product.

82 b_sharp  Apr 25, 2014 12:47:15pm

re: #76 3eff Jeff

They could just fire up Goat Simulator on air, and 90% of their viewers wouldn’t know the difference.

WTH is a goat stimulator?

83 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 25, 2014 12:47:55pm

re: #75 Charles Johnson

He used the word!

84 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:47:56pm

re: #77 TedStriker

Just an aside, but it’s funny that former RNC chairman Mehlman’s name gets mentioned in the context of Bundy’s (and the GOP’s) evermore-apparent bigotry, because IIRC, Mehlman just came out of the closet not awfully long ago.

Yeah. What’s really sad is Mehlman may have been one of their better recent chairs but he still had no problem with the party pushing the anti-gay shit in 2004 to get the fundies out even though he is gay himself. Talking about selling your soul.

85 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:48:07pm

re: #82 b_sharp

WTH is a goat stimulator?

Youtube Video

86 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:48:49pm

re: #75 Charles Johnson

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That is exactly what will happen. A Democrat will say the word “negro” in some context and the right will immediately demand to know why he or she isn’t getting criticized like Bundy.

87 HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2014 12:49:25pm

re: #73 EPR-radar

Honestly, the argument that blacks were better off under slavery can only come from a cesspit of neo-confederate racism. There is no other possibility.

Not to mention utterly clueless.

88 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 12:49:34pm

re: #82 b_sharp

WTH is a goat stimulator?

A 12-volt battery to the nuts…

///

89 Mike Lamb  Apr 25, 2014 12:49:56pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

In a weird way he’s sorta right, because the “better off as slaves” argument is really not unusual among conservative politicians/pundits. But when Bundy prefaced that with “the nigra,” he made it very clear where that argument is coming from.

Having listened to the tape, I think people are giving Bundy too much benefit of the doubt that he was trying to say negro vs. the n-word. At the very least, he’s mangling the pronunciation so he can get ever-so-close to saying the n-word and not be taken to task for it.

90 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 25, 2014 12:51:06pm

re: #70 EPR-radar

That makes it ever so much better. ///

Seriously, what kind of world is it where ‘the nigra’ is apparently worse than the opinion that blacks were better off under slavery?

Warning: Massive, extended lump of deeply bitter sarcasm follows.

There’s no family structure more stable than a slave family.

Dad’s up in the main house, Chattel Mom can’t leave the property without getting whipped or mutilated by Dad, The kids learn early that there’s no freeloading in life, and that Dad Knows Best, particuarly when he’s selling you to a new owner.

91 Lidane  Apr 25, 2014 12:51:56pm

Sorry for the early OT, but this is the nerdy derp you’re looking for:

92 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 12:52:23pm

re: #84 HappyWarrior

Yeah. What’s really sad is Mehlman may have been one of their better recent chairs but he still had no problem with the party pushing the anti-gay shit in 2004 to get the fundies out even though he is gay himself. Talking about selling your soul.

Party Uber Alles

93 3eff Jeff  Apr 25, 2014 12:52:57pm

re: #82 b_sharp

WTH is a goat stimulator?

TedStriker and Varek Raith covered it pretty well.

EDIT to add: If they did fire it up on the air, it would probably be the greatest thing to happen in an airport waiting area in decades.

94 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 12:53:02pm

re: #90 The Ghost of a Flea

Warning: Massive, extended lump of deeply bitter sarcasm follows.

There’s no family structure more stable than a slave family.

Dad’s up in the main house, Chattel Mom can’t leave the property without getting whipped or mutilated by Dad, The kids learn early that there’s no freeloading in life, and that Dad Knows Best, particuarly when he’s selling you to a new owner.

Masters raping their slaves is also a shining example of family values. //// to infinity and beyond

95 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:54:25pm

11 full days since The Intercept’s last published word.

96 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 12:55:00pm

re: #84 HappyWarrior

Yeah. What’s really sad is Mehlman may have been one of their better recent chairs but he still had no problem with the party pushing the anti-gay shit in 2004 to get the fundies out even though he is gay himself. Talking about selling your soul.

Apparently Mehlman has lobbied for marriage equality since coming out, so he is making some amends for past behavior.

97 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 12:55:03pm

re: #95 b.d.

11 full days since The Intercept’s last published word.

21 days since their last article.

98 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 12:55:42pm

re: #89 Mike Lamb

Having listened to the tape, I think people are giving Bundy too much benefit of the doubt that he was trying to say negro vs. the n-word. At the very least, he’s mangling the pronunciation so he can get ever-so-close to saying the n-word and not be taken to task for it.

Suddenly people started calling Bundy a Texan, maybe because he sounds like LBJ, who was all over that pronunciation depending on his audience. But LBJ was a Democrat, so MBF! MBF!

99 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 12:56:53pm

re: #97 b.d.

21 days since their last article.

A billion dollars only buys so much.

/or however many dollars it was

100 freetoken  Apr 25, 2014 12:58:01pm

re: #49 Timothy Watson

Shame to waste all that veal.

I wonder how many people go to the store and buy veal without realizing without knowing what it is?

101 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 12:59:31pm

re: #95 b.d.

11 full days since The Intercept’s last published word.

Heh.

102 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 12:59:35pm

re: #95 b.d.

11 full days since The Intercept’s last published word.

re: #97 b.d.

21 days since their last article.

We can only hope that Pierre Omidyar grew a conscience, told GG and his meal ticket Ed to stuff it, and is considering a mercy killing a change in strategy for The Intercept/First Look Media.

/a man can dream, right?

103 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 1:00:57pm

In other news, a guy just came by with his full-suspension bike that has a creaking noise somewhere, which he refers to as ‘obviously the bottom bracket.’ The other shop took it apart and put it back together, but that didn’t fix it, but still it’s obviously the bottom bracket. No, couldn’t be one of those dozen pivot points in the vicinity, nor a chainring bolt nor pedal. No. It’s ‘obviously’ the bottom bracket. Because he can feel it in his feet.

104 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 1:01:37pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

How old are his feet?

105 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 1:01:55pm

re: #97 b.d.

21 days since their last article.

Geez. He can easily spew 5000 word articles about nothing but can’t keep up with his own media outlet?
Hmmm…

106 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 1:02:25pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

In other news, a guy just came by with his full-suspension bike that has a creaking noise somewhere, which he refers to as ‘obviously the bottom bracket.’ The other shop took it apart and put it back together, but that didn’t fix it, but still it’s obviously the bottom bracket. No, couldn’t be one of those dozen pivot points in the vicinity, nor a chainring bolt nor pedal. No. It’s ‘obviously’ the bottom bracket. Because he can feel it in his feet.

It’s lupus.

107 lawhawk  Apr 25, 2014 1:03:43pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I’m supposed to feel sympathy for the calf? And by extension Bundy for stealing from the public by grazing his herd on public land without paying any fees for decades?

His herd got fat off the public land without paying for it. That’s criminal.

All the rest is window dressing and attempts to divert attention from the fact that he’s a criminal whose buddies came out with all manner of weapons to attack those carrying out lawful acts of the courts and federal agencies to administer the law. They are lawbreakers.

108 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 1:05:28pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

In other news, a guy just came by with his full-suspension bike that has a creaking noise somewhere, which he refers to as ‘obviously the bottom bracket.’ The other shop took it apart and put it back together, but that didn’t fix it, but still it’s obviously the bottom bracket. No, couldn’t be one of those dozen pivot points in the vicinity, nor a chainring bolt nor pedal. No. It’s ‘obviously’ the bottom bracket. Because he can feel it in his feet.

I’ve had the same symptom turn out to be the derailler hangar. But in this case I think I’ll grab one of his feet and clamp it in the vise for an exam….

109 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 25, 2014 1:06:59pm
110 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 1:07:01pm

re: #108 wrenchwench

derailler hangar

Sounds more awesome than it probably is.

111 Bulworth  Apr 25, 2014 1:09:37pm
21 days since their last article.

Obviously the NSA is censoring them. //

112 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 1:10:43pm

re: #110 Varek Raith

Sounds more awesome than it probably is.

Totally awesome.

They creak when not bolted on tightly enough. Sometimes a little grease between it and the frame helps.

113 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 25, 2014 1:11:26pm
114 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 1:11:32pm

re: #111 Bulworth

Obviously the NSA is censoring them. //

They’re deleting every word I type Pierre, just like they did with that Guardian author. I swear it!!!

115 Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2014 1:11:53pm

re: #91 Lidane

Sorry for the early OT, but this is the nerdy derp you’re looking for:

[Embedded content]

I stopped paying any attention to Star Wars EU after “New Jedi Order” started and the only authors I bother to reread are the pre-NJO Zahn, Stackpole, and Allston books.

116 theheat  Apr 25, 2014 1:14:07pm

re: #107 lawhawk

I do feel bad for the calf, actually. It was the innocent victim of Bundy’s poor management skills. Had he rounded up his cattle himself, the government would not have. It isn’t like they didn’t warn the dumbass.

Republicans in general don’t feel too much one way or the other about animals, except for photo ops. Cockfighting, for example. Just good ole fashioned fun.

117 sizzzzlerz  Apr 25, 2014 1:16:31pm
Cliven Bundy Brings a Dead Calf on CNN Interview

Are they interviewing the calf to see if it knows where Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 is?

118 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 1:16:48pm

119 jaunte  Apr 25, 2014 1:17:51pm

On the topic of RNC spokesman Sean Spicer’s complaint:

Rep. Trent Franks (R) of Arizona: African Americans may have been better off under slavery than in a legal system that allows legal abortions:
washingtonmonthly.com

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R) Minnesota: signed a pledge produced by the Iowa Family Leader that included language suggesting black children were better off under slavery than they are now.
thinkprogress.org

And more:
Ten conservatives who have praised slavery

120 b_sharp  Apr 25, 2014 1:22:22pm

re: #85 Varek Raith

[Embedded content]

Larger

That was hilarious.

121 fizzlogic  Apr 25, 2014 1:25:25pm

Last night’s Rachel Maddow show was a must see for those who want some background on who these “patriots” are: msnbc.com

122 dog philosopher  Apr 25, 2014 1:35:58pm

When similar incidents happen

tell it to yer mommy

123 dog philosopher  Apr 25, 2014 1:37:48pm

“If I say ‘Negro’ or ‘black boy’ or ‘slave,’ if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be [offended], then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done yet,” he added. “We need to get over this prejudice stuff.”

let’s hear you tell some jokes making fun of white people first okay?

124 A Mom Anon  Apr 25, 2014 1:42:57pm

Two things:
One, Why in the ever loving hell is this buffoon holding a fucking press conference a couple times a day? Hell maybe I should alert the media on my front porch every morning and give them an update on my world. Give me a fucking break. Our Media Sucks.

Two, did the BLM actually kill any of Idiot Cowboy’s cows? I’ve heard all kinds of shit from the yahoos around here, but I honestly have no idea. I’ve had a ton of shit going on here, so I’m a bit out of the loop.

125 Minor_L  Apr 25, 2014 1:43:39pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

This is why the Republicans are getting calls. It’s not just because they all championed him as a hero. But, because what he said is standard issue GOP talking point, but just turned up a notch.

126 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 1:48:59pm

re: #124 A Mom Anon

Two things:
One, Why in the ever loving hell is this buffoon holding a fucking press conference a couple times a day? Hell maybe I should alert the media on my front porch every morning and give them an update on my world. Give me a fucking break. Our Media Sucks.

Two, did the BLM actually kill any of Idiot Cowboy’s cows? I’ve heard all kinds of shit from the yahoos around here, but I honestly have no idea. I’ve had a ton of shit going on here, so I’m a bit out of the loop.

I think there were 4 or 6 deaths among the bovines during the round up. The current calf accompanying Cliven to his recent interview doesn’t count. Even if it was separated from its mother during the round up, it survived for two weeks somehow (didn’t look skinny to me), and maybe Cliven should have been out taking care of it rather than giving interviews.

127 darthstar  Apr 25, 2014 1:49:20pm

Snip of Krauthammer

This is a despicable statement. It’s not the statement, you have to disassociate yourself entirely from the man. It’s not like the words exist here and the man exists here. And why conservatives, or some conservatives end up in bed with people who, you know, he makes an anti-government statement, he takes an anti-government stand, he wears a nice big hat and he rides a horse, and all of a sudden he is a champion of democracy. This is a man who said that he doesn’t recognize the authority of the United States of America. That makes him a patriot?

128 Mike Lamb  Apr 25, 2014 1:50:05pm

re: #123 dog philosopher

“If I say ‘Negro’ or ‘black boy’ or ‘slave,’ if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be [offended], then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done yet,” he added. “We need to get over this prejudice stuff.”

let’s hear you tell some jokes making fun of white people first okay?

This guy has to have been hired by the Onion. This is performance art, no?

129 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 1:52:23pm
130 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 1:57:59pm

re: #127 darthstar

Snip of Krauthammer

Broken clock and all that.

Krauthammer’s spiel is rich though, coming from a person who’s been helping to stoke the current GOP political morass.

131 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 1:59:35pm

re: #83 Feline Fearless Leader

He used the word!

You know “El Negro” was my dad’s cousin’s nickname. He was from Argentina. Died several months ago.

132 freetoken  Apr 25, 2014 2:01:03pm

re: #130 TedStriker

I wonder if, in the deep of the night, Krauthammer asks himself if he really wants to go down with the ship on which he chose board.

133 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 2:01:27pm

re: #126 wrenchwench

I think there were 4 or 6 deaths among the bovines during the round up. The current calf accompanying Cliven to his recent interview doesn’t count. Even if it was separated from its mother during the round up, it survived for two weeks somehow (didn’t look skinny to me), and maybe Cliven should have been out taking care of it rather than giving interviews.

The wingnuts are calling it “Cowschwitz”

134 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:03:18pm

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

The wingnuts are calling it “Cowschwitz”

How thick and insensitive do you have to be to compare animals being raised for slaughter to human slaughter. I almost can’t comprehend it.

135 freetoken  Apr 25, 2014 2:04:03pm

OT - today is DNA Day.

Lots of interesting stuff out there on DNA, what it means, etc.

Celebrating DNA Day, 2014

136 darthstar  Apr 25, 2014 2:04:11pm

So “I’ll break you like a boy” guy is getting indicted…

137 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 2:05:40pm

re: #134 wrenchwench

How thick and insensitive do you have to be to compare animals being raised for slaughter to human slaughter. I almost can’t comprehend it.

I think there is often actual malice involved in these comparisons. Trivializing the holocaust is a prerequisite for renewed scapegoating of the Jews.

138 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:05:54pm

re: #135 freetoken

OT - today is DNA Day.

Lots of interesting stuff out there on DNA, what it means, etc.

Celebrating DNA Day, 2014

It’s also Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday. (Hat tip: a Gus retweet.)

Youtube Video

139 Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2014 2:07:30pm

re: #131 Gus

I had an uncle named George, but we always called him “Blackie.” I never, ever though about his name until I was in my 20s, and realized how f’d up it was that 1) he accepted a nickname like that and introduced himself by that name, and 2) the fact that it had never occurred to me before.

He was born on a reservation in OK and that name was given to him as a teenager. It was easier to accept it than fight it.

140 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 2:08:14pm

re: #134 wrenchwench

How thick and insensitive do you have to be to compare animals being raised for slaughter to human slaughter. I almost can’t comprehend it.

HURR HURR!!! FIRST THEY CAME FOR TEH BUNDY COWS!!!! THEN THEY CAME FOR TEH MILITIA OATHKEEPERS TO TAKE AWAY THERE GUNZ!!!!!! HERES A HITLER QUOTE I MADE UP!!!!!!

141 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 2:08:40pm

re: #134 wrenchwench

How thick and insensitive do you have to be to compare animals being raised for slaughter to human slaughter. I almost can’t comprehend it.

They aren’t even being original bastards; Family Guy used that bit years ago when they lampooned factory farming/slaughter of livestock, with a bull voiced by Ricardo Montalban.

142 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 2:08:47pm

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

The wingnuts are calling it “Cowschwitz”

I…wow.

143 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 2:09:28pm

NOBODY COULD EVER DUPE THE GENIUS THAT IS JESSYLN RADACK!!!!

144 theheat  Apr 25, 2014 2:09:38pm

re: #134 wrenchwench

They weren’t slaughtered. Apparently they were run to death in the heat, and cows were separated from their calves. This is calving season, so some were ready to give birth at any time. Really, really dumb move on the BLM’s part.

145 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:10:21pm

re: #137 EPR-radar

I think there is often actual malice involved in these comparisons. Trivializing the holocaust is a prerequisite for renewed scapegoating of the Jews.

Intended or not, there’s malice. If it is not intended, there’s at least a lack of compassion that allows a person to stay so fucking ignorant. Anybody saying something like that needs correction.

146 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 2:11:02pm

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

The wingnuts are calling it “Cowschwitz”

I’d assume you’re joking, except stupid shit like that is par for the course.

147 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:12:26pm

re: #144 theheat

They weren’t slaughtered. Apparently they were run to death in the heat, and cows were separated from their calves. This is calving season, so some were ready to give birth at any time. Really, really dumb move on the BLM’s part.

I didn’t even see any dead calves until today. I saw a few dead cows and a bull that was supposedly shot.

BLM certainly didn’t strategize sufficiently for this operation.

148 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 2:12:27pm

re: #146 Kragar

I’d assume you’re joking, except stupid shit like that is par for the course.

They didn’t say “Cowschwitz” (that’s too clever) but they are definitely seething about how it was TEH WORSEST MOAST BARBARIC THING EVER!!!!!

149 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 2:13:24pm
150 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:13:39pm

re: #148 Pie-onist Overlord

They didn’t say “Cowschwitz” (that’s too clever) but they are definitely seething about how it was TEH WORSEST MOAST BARBARIC THING EVER!!!!!

At least since their most recent burger.

151 darthstar  Apr 25, 2014 2:14:15pm

re: #149 Pie-onist Overlord

never mind…sucks to be a cow. Especially a cow owned by Bundy.

152 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 2:14:36pm

re: #149 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

THOSE LOOK LIKE HIS COWS AND THAT COULD NOT BE A PICTURE OF SOME OTHER DEAD COWS!

153 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:15:34pm

re: #149 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

Anyone who uses the word ‘murder’ when talking about animals needs correction.

I refused to post a flyer for a girl whose dog was shot in its yard because it said ‘murdered’.

154 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 2:15:38pm

re: #151 darthstar

That looks like an elephant.

If the Govt. would have killed an elephant then there would have been some serious blowback.

155 EPR-radar  Apr 25, 2014 2:16:14pm

re: #151 darthstar

That looks like an elephant.

I’m certainly not about to believe BLM made mass graves for cattle without being detected until now unless real evidence surfaces.

156 Kragar  Apr 25, 2014 2:16:32pm
157 darthstar  Apr 25, 2014 2:16:48pm

re: #154 b.d.

If the Govt. would have killed an elephant then there would have been some serious blowback.

yeah…updated my post. Haven’t been following the story that closely, except to mock the racists and their allies in congress.

158 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 2:17:04pm

re: #153 wrenchwench

Anyone who uses the word ‘murder’ when talking about animals needs correction.

I refused to post a flyer for a girl whose dog was shot in its yard because it said ‘murdered’.

PETA says that a lot.

159 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:17:04pm

re: #139 Flying Squirrel Girl

I had an uncle named George, but we always called him “Blackie.” I never, ever though about his name until I was in my 20s, and realized how f’d up it was that 1) he accepted a nickname like that and introduced himself by that name, and 2) the fact that it had never occurred to me before.

He was born on a reservation in OK and that name was given to him as a teenager. It was easier to accept it than fight it.

Not sure of the Latin American origin is for the nickname. It’s still used.

160 theheat  Apr 25, 2014 2:17:28pm

re: #153 wrenchwench

Cruelty exists toward animals, and is a very real thing. But it shouldn’t be called murder. Neither should slaughter be called euthanizing, because it isn’t.

161 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:18:59pm

re: #155 EPR-radar

I’m certainly not about to believe BLM made mass graves for cattle without being detected until now unless real evidence surfaces.

BLM was required to dig a pit by some rule or another. I don’t have a problem with dead cows (and yes, I see calves too) in a pit. I still blame Bundy for being the fuck-up who pushed the BLM to this point, and the BLM for not being smarter about dealing with him.

162 b.d.  Apr 25, 2014 2:19:01pm

I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT KILLS THEIR COWS, I’M MOVING TO INDIA!!!1!!

164 Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2014 2:20:20pm

Loud thunder is loud.

165 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:20:40pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

Politics is about to destroy the internet

Meh. The sky is falling.

166 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:21:04pm

re: #164 Varek Raith

Loud thunder is loud.

How many times have I told you to get your head out of the clouds!?!?

167 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:21:33pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

Politics is about to destroy the internet

It must be true. I read it on the internet!!

168 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:23:03pm

Speaking of PETA

PETA wants memorial to turkeys killed in Sioux City crash

siouxcityjournal.com

169 theheat  Apr 25, 2014 2:23:29pm

re: #155 EPR-radar

Oh, that you can believe. The BLM is notorious for killing animals they round up by “accident.” These were rounded up by helicopter for the most part, in the heat of the day, with heavily pregnant cows, and cows with baby calves at their sides. It could not have been a dumber plan if they tried.

170 Killgore Trout  Apr 25, 2014 2:24:44pm

re: #165 Gus

Meh. The sky is falling.

The headline is hyperbolic but it’s inevitable. Net neutrality was nice but it wasn’t going to last. The Comcast merger is, more or less, a done deal. We’ll tell our grandkids about the early days of the internet before monopolies and tiered access.

171 freetoken  Apr 25, 2014 2:24:48pm

re: #163 Killgore Trout

Politics is about to destroy the internet

Nothing ought to get between me and my Pr0n.

172 wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2014 2:24:51pm

re: #159 Gus

Not sure of the Latin American origin is for the nickname. It’s still used.

Still used here too. And ‘Morena’ is a common ‘compliment’. Also, I know a family in which the youngest daughter is called ‘Guera’. It would all be meaningless references to personal characteristics if there weren’t bigotry based on the same thing.

173 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:24:59pm

re: #168 sattv4u2

Speaking of PETA

>PETA wants memorial to turkeys killed in Sioux City crash

siouxcityjournal.com

Well. Nope. They can’t get one. Next! //

174 freetoken  Apr 25, 2014 2:26:00pm

The Internet needs its own Cliven Bundy.

175 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:26:44pm

re: #173 Gus

Well. Nope. They can’t get one. Next! //

I thought it would be cool to erect a large billboard there with a picture of a full Thanksgiving day spread, a HUGE cooked turkey on a platter right in the middle, with a graphic that states

DEAR PETA,,,, PLEASE PASS THE GRAVY

176 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 25, 2014 2:31:44pm

re: #168 sattv4u2

Speaking of PETA

>PETA wants memorial to turkeys killed in Sioux City crash

siouxcityjournal.com

They should occupy the Bundy ranch to protest Bundy’s exploitation of cows. Could 5000 naked PETA-heads succeed where the feds have failed?
/////

177 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:33:14pm

re: #176 Shiplord Kirel

They should occupy the Bundy ranch to protest Bundy’s exploitation of cows. Could 5000 naked PETA heads succeed where the feds have failed?
/////

Me’thinks the naked cows would be more appealing!
/

178 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:34:43pm

Hamas make up their mind yet?

179 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:36:29pm

re: #178 Gus

Hamas make up their mind yet?

About!?!? Choices ??? Whether they want the destruction of Israel or the destruction of Israel!?!?!?

180 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 25, 2014 2:37:51pm

re: #174 freetoken

The Internet needs its own Cliven Bundy.

Some guy who gets fawning accolades for breaking the law? Isn’t Edward Snowden already wearing that crown?

181 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Apr 25, 2014 2:39:47pm

David Dewhurst campaign ad uses footage he doesn’t own despite the objection of the copyright holders, because fuck you, that’s why.

KERA has received numerous queries about whether the station played any role in a commercial released last week by the campaign of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst. Texans have asked whether we gave permission for the campaign to use images of our reporter asking a question during KERA’s Jan. 27 debate. They’ve asked whether our reporter agreed to appear in the Dewhurst ad. The answer to both is an emphatic “No.” The campaign did not ask KERA for permission to use the footage, and when the ad was released on April 16, KERA immediately objected. The Dewhurst campaign responded by saying it would not pull the ad.

182 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:39:56pm

re: #179 sattv4u2

About!?!? Choices ??? Whether they want the destruction of Israel or the destruction of Israel!?!?!?

About recognizing Israel. The new Fatah-Hamas coalition. Abbas allegedly told Kerry that they might recognize Israel.

183 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 25, 2014 2:40:50pm

re: #176 Shiplord Kirel

They should occupy the Bundy ranch to protest Bundy’s exploitation of cows. Could 5000 naked PETA-heads succeed where the feds gun-totin’ militias have failed?
/////

184 sattv4u2  Apr 25, 2014 2:41:02pm

re: #182 Gus

About recognizing Israel. The new Fatah-Hamas coalition. Abbas allegedly told Kerry that they might recognize Israel.

Lucy>> Football >>> Charlie Brown on his ass!!

(I’ve seen this movie before)

185 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:42:21pm

re: #184 sattv4u2

Lucy>> Football >>> Charlie Brown on his ass!!

(I’ve seen this movie before)

Yeah. It’s like North Korea. Or North Korea and South Korea reconciliation.

186 GeneJockey  Apr 25, 2014 2:42:48pm

re: #135 freetoken

OT - today is DNA Day.

Lots of interesting stuff out there on DNA, what it means, etc.

Celebrating DNA Day, 2014

Wait - today is DNA Day? How ironic that I, whose entire career has been built on sequencing and engineering that stuff didn’t know that.

187 Gus  Apr 25, 2014 2:43:40pm
188 TedStriker  Apr 25, 2014 2:54:36pm

re: #184 sattv4u2

Lucy>> Football >>> Charlie Brown on his ass!!

(I’ve seen this movie before)

Speaking of Peanuts and movies:

peanutsmovie.com

It’s due out in theaters next year.

189 Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2014 2:59:57pm

re: #14 Varek Raith

Dear RNC,
You guys pandered to this shit. Stop bitching that you’ve stepped in it.

Exactly. We would never have heard about Cliven Bundy unless Hannity, Fox News, Rightwing media and Republican politicians had not brought him to our attention as a hero, patriot and Gandhi-like figure.

As Ms. Morrisette asked: “Isn’t it ironic?”


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