It turns out Fox's favorite Nevada rancher, Cliven Bundy, is not just a lying lawbreaker but quite the racist, too. The New York Times caught him in a racial rant in which - among other things - he said about African Americans, "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.” UPDATED: Bundy doubles down... on video!
Today's New York Times reported on a Bundy "press conference" on Saturday to which only one reporter and one photographer (presumably from The Times) showed up. So Bundy engaged in a "a long, loping discourse" with his supporters that included Bundy's views on race:
“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 is just the latest in a long line of racists and race baiting that Sean Hannity and Fox have sanctioned. But other than Donald Trump's birtherism, none have received the kind of attention and promotion as Bundy.
Will Hannity and Fox News continue to stand by their man? Stayed tuned!
UPDATE: Tommy Christopher caught Bundy affirming this report today, saying, "What I said: 'I'm wondering.' ...That's exactly what I said. I said, I’m wondering if they’re better off under government subsidy, and their young women are having the abortions and their young men are in jail, and their older women and their children are standing, sittin' out on the cement porch without nothing to do, you know, I’m wondering: Are they happier now under this government subsidy system than they were when they were slaves, and they was able to have their family structure together, and chickens and garden, and the people had something to do?”
Yes, just asking!
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