The Bundy incident concerns me because now some FReepers are starting to look to Cliven Bundy himself - who is not all there - as some kind of political guru.
Well I think he's sunk himself now.
It's interesting to contrast the Bundy incident with the Rosa Parks incident.
The left had planned for months for a bus incident. There was a woman before Parks the refused to move, but she wasn't a very sympathetic character and so the left refused to rally around her. Instead the left waited patiently for someone like Parks. They knew they needed someone who could be views sympathetically. They didn't rush in.
The point is, the left are experts at that sort of game. They're experts at crafting and controlling the message and image. They know it matters.
50+ years later and conservatives are still bumbling. Some have uncritically embraced Bundy who looks like a racist and now the entire conservative movement is tainted.
Conservatives are the political equivalent of the guy that walks out of the bathroom with toilet paper on his shoe because he can't be bothered to look and pay attention to even his basic appearance. Confidently he strolls around looking ridiculous. Hannity did the same by engaging with Stewart. He went in recklessly, and unprepared, and over-confident and Stewart made him look foolish.
I wonder if he realizes that, not only did he embarrass himself, but he embarrassed all conservatives.