Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Thursday joined the chorus of Republican politicians denouncing comments Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy made about “the Negro” and government assistance.
McCain wasn’t among Bundy’s diehard supporters, but when asked to address the racially charged remarks the senator said Bundy must apologize.
“Apparently he made statements that are racist, and if I were him — I can’t advise anybody what to do, but if those were accurate quotes, then he needs to have an apology,” McCain told talk radio host Mike Broomhead on Phoenix’s KFYI.
After Bundy’s comments were published in the New York Times and widely condemned on Thursday, the rancher said the newspaper was “making it a racist-type thing“ and called for a retraction. He expanded on his views on race in America in a press conference later in the day but did not walk back his controversial comments.
Listen to the audio below, around the 10:45 mark:
He needs to apologize for stealing from Americans as much as for being a racist POS.
Apologize… oh, that works… if you step on someone’s putting line on a golf green. McCain shows how out of touch he is with this issue — there is no fixing men like Bundy; the idea is to stop enabling them… and exploiting them for all the borderline Bundies in the GOP.
Rachel Maddow’s piece here is worth watching.
Radical racist context missed in rancher hype
As Maddow points out, perhaps the GOP and Fox “News” should have been paying more attention to this man’s radical views from the beginning. She asks the overriding question – Were they just ignorant and not listening? She hopes it was ignorance and not something much darker.
Okay, let’s examine Grampy’s latest babblings:
Such a WEALTH of McCainisms. “Apparently” Bundy made racist statements? Soooooooo you’re telling someone to apologize for shit you know nothing about? Oh, and “he needs to have an apology”? The grammar police may smack me around, but I believe you just said someone needs to apologize to Bundy – which, by the way, is what Bundy essentially said on Alex Jones’ show yesterday morning.
Nice job, Grampy. Now, GET OFF MY LAWN!
Oh, yeah, one more thing…
You did get one thing right, Grampy: After gifting the nation with Honey Cari-Boo Boo, you can’t advise anybody what to do… about anything!
They were listening. They weren’t ignorant. They were only hoping Bundy wouldn’t open his mouth too much – which is exactly what he did.