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GOP Scrambles To Condemn Rancher's Remarks on Race
NBCNews.com ^ | 04/24/2014 | Carrie Dann

Posted on 04/24/2014 7:03:12 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Republicans – including possible 2016 candidate Rand Paul -- are scrambling to distance themselves from defiant Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy after he made startling comments about slavery and African-Americans in a New York Times article published Wednesday night.

From the Times’ Adam Nagourney:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Bundy had previously drawn support from some GOP lawmakers for his clash with the Bureau of Land Management.

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In statements after Bundy’s remarks, both Paul and Heller condemned his comments.

"His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him,” said Paul.

And a spokesman for Heller told the Times that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: blm; bundy; bundyranch; clivenbundy; harryreid; jumpedtheshark; nevada; racist
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To: GIdget2004

We knew they’d try to smear him.

And “racist” is their favorite accusation.


81 posted on 04/24/2014 7:38:25 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: GIdget2004
Is Mr. Bundy saying the government is still practicing segregation?
82 posted on 04/24/2014 7:38:32 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: BenLurkin
Dingy Harry Reid made good on his threat that “something would happen” to Bundy,

Look for Dirty Harry to get Bundy excommunicated.

83 posted on 04/24/2014 7:39:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
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To: Drango

Negro and colored were considered the proper terms to use when I was a kid, back then that is what the Blacks wanted to be called; and Bundy is I think a little older than I am. I won’t say he is racist for using that term, he has likely not paid a lot of attention to changing terms.


84 posted on 04/24/2014 7:39:56 AM PDT by Tammy8
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To: GIdget2004

Bundy is not a politician, nor a TV celebrity. His comments on race relations don’t disqualify him from being a rancher.


85 posted on 04/24/2014 7:39:56 AM PDT by AU72
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To: EBH

Inartful, but true for the most part. Are blacks thriving with gubmint help?


86 posted on 04/24/2014 7:40:58 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: Tammy8
he has likely not paid a lot of attention to changing terms.

Probably still calls a queer a queer, instead of "gay".

87 posted on 04/24/2014 7:42:01 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor 16: 32)
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To: montag813
He used the word "Negro" -- still used in the NAACP title

Huh?

88 posted on 04/24/2014 7:42:21 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Drango

No; he comes across as a free man. He is speaking his mind and does not really care to make it pleasing to others.

Blacks have suffered greatly in America — first from slavery, then from discrimination, and now from a paternalistic welfare state that alternately coddles and criminalizes them. It is shameful.


89 posted on 04/24/2014 7:42:31 AM PDT by Romulus
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To: Drango

The race card is dead, deal with it.


90 posted on 04/24/2014 7:42:42 AM PDT by Mechanicos (When did we amend the Constitution for a 2nd Federal Prohibition?)
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To: GIdget2004

If our forefathers had known how much the cost of picking cotton was going to cost this country in the future, there would have been no Africans imported to this country to do that job.


91 posted on 04/24/2014 7:42:44 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: saganite

What makes you think it was actually him that wrote it?


92 posted on 04/24/2014 7:43:46 AM PDT by Mechanicos (When did we amend the Constitution for a 2nd Federal Prohibition?)
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To: Resettozero

He is done with being an example for conservativism. However right he may (or may not) have been with his BLM fight, he is now damaged goods. A useful idiot for the left to say; “See? Another racist right winger who....”


93 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Drango

NAACP, the United Nego College Fund, etc. Grow a brain, he’s an OLD cracker.


94 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:24 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Bundy is a nutter. The government needed to be called for sending in snipers over grazing fees, but Bundy is no patriot, he’s a nutter and rallying to him as some sort of folk hero is and was stupid.


95 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:34 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: DManA
I notice the Republicans never “scrambled” to condemn the BLM for their Gestapo tactics. I take from their silence that they approve.

IN defense of Paul in this case, he has been posting about the situation and the government overreach. He acted quickly to draw a line between the situation with the BLS and the rancher's words to minimize any political attacks.

96 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:35 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: Lazamataz

Yeah, keep in mind these statements were supposedly made at a press conference last Saturday and yet we only hear about them now as something that was “overheard” by the NYT. Where are the RECORDINGS?


97 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:35 AM PDT by PJ-Comix (ObamaCare unsubsidized PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
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To: Responsibility2nd

You wish, thus is more Marxist propaganda and its not working.


98 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:40 AM PDT by Mechanicos (When did we amend the Constitution for a 2nd Federal Prohibition?)
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To: GIdget2004
Just maybe, he is thinking as Old Abe and Bob Marley did! # 1, The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.” ― Abraham Lincoln # 2, “You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.” ― Abraham Lincoln # 3, “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.” ― Bob Marley
99 posted on 04/24/2014 7:44:54 AM PDT by GOYAKLA (Waiting for the Golden Screw to be removed from Obama's navel and his a$$ falls off!)
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To: EBH

Yeah, many blacks, but poor whites too, have been put into another type of horrible slavery to welfare state. The difference is they chose it, it was not chosen for them. But when you consider the importance of the fight with government power, stupid to phrase it the way he did. One more reason the right will be vilified now.


100 posted on 04/24/2014 7:45:12 AM PDT by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")
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