"...........CNN REPORTER: But aren't those offensive comments to you
BULLOCK: Not at all.
CNN REPORTER: Not offensive?
BULLOCK: Because Mr. Bundy is not a racist. Ever since I've been here he's treated me with nothing but hospitality. He's pretty much treated me like his own family.
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BULLOCK: I would take a bullet for that man, if need be. I look up to him just like I do my own grandfather.
CNN REPORTER: Why?............."
Bttt
One must deal with reality as it is, not as one wants it to be. Were I a white conservative, I'd denounce Bundy too. I'd do it for expediency, I'd do it for sheer survival. There are not only careers at stake, but the future of the movement hinges on learning to not tilt at windmills.
His quaint unsophistication may be endearing but it's toxic in today's environment.
Frankly, I never cared for MLK or his movement and I find his deification incomprehensible and abhorrent. However, if I needed allies I would never state it publicly as it would force everyone from my side simply because anything else would be political suicide.
If Cliven Bundy can't learn to navigate the minefield that is the current media climate, he needs to learn to keep quiet. Fair? Hell no! Who said life is fair?
Lloyd you are one awesome Freeper
Bundy got Zimmerized.
They know a label of racist or racism stops you dead in your tracks. Soon calling them black will be on the list or before you describe them you may have to ask them what they would like to be called
I saw this this am and I think, former U.N. Ambassador Alan Keyes is exactly right in his assessment.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/04/black-leader-says-bundy-remarks-not-racist/
As I have noted on other threads, the Democrat Plantation is a form of slavery, economic in nature, and singularly destructive of the traditional family (mom, dad, and kids) A husband can't live with his wife and children in most cases and still have the wife and kids get the same benefits, so the husband is out. That is what happened to the Family in America, and the demographics were not evenly distributed: some groups have a distinct head start in their destruction.
Is decrying policies for which the Federal Government has no Constitutional authority and which are incredibly destructive to the most basic social fabric of our Nation racist?
Hardly.
If anything, it is a warning to all Americans that there is a lot more to the abuse of Federal Power than just a few head of cattle and a rancher in Nevada, and Bundy knows it.
The mention of the one demographic group who has suffered the most destruction (since the 60s) on the Democrat Plantation, by the ministrations of the Great Society--brought to them by the political party which gave us the KKK--isn't racism, but closer to a case study of how Federal abuse of power has damaged the very fabric of this nation, and a warning of how, unchecked, that abuse will continue and its scope expand into everyone's lives.
Pity, that the archaic but once perfectly acceptable terms "Negro" and "colored" were used, and more the pity that so many ran screaming for the hills at the words without bothering to understand what was being pointed out.
Mr Bundy has tried to use his bully pulpit to warn the multitude, to do a greater good in making people aware of the most widespread destruction wrought by abused Federal Power, but the very people who should have listened (and listened to all he said, not just the NYT cut) fell all over themselves trying to shut off the mike.
It looks like the prolific social commentator ET Williams maybe visiting the Clive Bundy ranch.
ET rails against the media and liberal hypocrisy and media lying.
“Clive Bundy Said Slave and Negro Now Get The F*** Over It And Move On “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9-XiMI9k2U
“We have no morals and we will attack you,” Ethan Krupp a.k.a Pajama Boy.
“Prominent conservatives running for the tall grass to get away from or running to microphones to denounce Bundy ...”
Gutless is gutless, period.
And...The whole crew of so-called conservative talk show hosts fell right into the trap.
So?...What else is new? ( Yawn!) It's the usual “gottcha”. Conservatives are like Charley Brown who always tried to kick the ball no matter how many time Lucy tricks him and snatches the ball away at the last second.
Equally some real jackasses on the right like Megan, Hannity, O'Rielly and many others that subscribe to the NYT for the news. What dips. Had they really got the entire statement that was asked by a communists "ingrate" they would have realize what truth Bundy was telling the blacks and America. He is not a racist.
I’m not comfortable with the idea that “elderly” is a suitable adjective for someone who is only 67 years old.