What are the big Bundy defenders saying now about his pro-slavery remarks? Here’s the definitive rundown.
Of all his comments, this little-noticed statement might be what really sinks Cliven Bundy with some of his diehard supporters.
One minute you’re keeping it real defending a far-right scofflaw rancher who’s skipped out on a million dollars in back fees to the federal government for using public land and is now guarding himself with a crew of heavily armed militia types and the next thing you know he turns out to be kinda racist.
Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy is not going away, and he’s now had some thoughts on Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., which he happy to share with CNN in an incredibly cringe-worthy interview this morning.
Federal prosecutors say conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza is exploiting his criticism of Obama to try to duck the criminal charges against him.
Given that Sean Spicer is the head of communications for the RNC it makes perfect sense that he’s upset that his party is being tied to the terribly and almost comical racist remarks of renegade rancher Cliven Bundy and his band of armed freedom fighters standing their ground in the Nevada outback. (And yes, I’ve spent a decent amount of time in the area.) These positions on “negroes” and their being against “we the people” and possibly better off in slavery are not part of any Republican platform or literature or position papers.
Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) says he’s facing an ethics investigation.
Attorneys for Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) say they expect him to be indicted on federal charges.
How does the owner of a major sports franchise come back from something like this?
I wanted to take a moment to update everyone on our new comments system.
The main takeaway from this LA Clippers controversy is that Clippers owner Donald Sterling is obviously a pretty massive racist.
As we’ve learned in recent days, “racist” has so many meanings which expose themselves through ways of talking about non-whites, negative attitudes toward certain racial groups, antiquated or well … just racist attitudes about work habits or the role of public assistance programs, a sense of political authority and threat. But when you’re telling your girlfriend, I don’t want you bringing black people to our games or “broadcast[ing] that you’re associating with black people”, you just have to say, wow, man, you’re really racist. Like you don’t even want to be near black people or you experience some form of shame that your girlfriend “associates” with black people.