“Hannity ate up that story so hard, Bundy should have charged him grazing fees,” observed Stephen Colbert by way of introducing his brilliant Ballad of Cliven Bundy. “Like every folk hero,” Colbert continued, “he deserves a folk song”…
While that tune and that segment couldn’t be more brilliant, the Bundy situation on the range is now just getting plain sad. Here’s a clip of his fairly pathetic appearance on CNN this morning…
As I snarked last night on Twitter…
The time at the #BundyRanch is now 14:59.
— Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) April 25, 2014
So this welfare queen with a ten gallon hat rationalizes that his version of sucking on the government teet (and breaking the law) is OK if he produces something (beef from his cattle). So with that logic it is also OK for a welfare recipient to sell meth from their home chemistry set that they were able to purchase with welfare money. The meth is a product in demand and is breaking the law like Bundy, but because they are producing something that is in demand, it whitewashes away the crime. No wonder why the politicians like him, he espouses what politicians have hoped the general public would believe about them.
He says he is not a racist (or at least he doesn’t think he is). The problem is that he has been spewing rhetoric from groups that have a history of racism. If I was in a group that had a history of racism (and was not currently renouncing their racist past), then I would be unsure of his claim of neutrality, when he is associating with racist people.
His Rosa Parks equating is way off base…
… At least Rosa Parks paid her fare.
Mr. Bundy, not so much.