Posted on 04/24/2014 1:46:38 PM PDT by servo1969
Full title- "SEAN HANNITY Responds to Cliven Bundy’s “Beyond Repugnant, Beyond Despicable” Racist Comments (Video)"
The New York Times broke the story today about Cliven Bundy’s racist comments to supporters during one his recent rallies. Bundy said “the negro” would be better under slavery than sitting collecting welfare “in front of the government house.”
This afternoon Sean Hannity responded to Bundy’s comments on his radio show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-m3JW-eK3k
Rancher Cliven Bundy decided to lecture his supporters on slavery and the “negro” on Saturday. Media Matters posted the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbnRnhrNFEY
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 24, 2014, 3:30 PM
The New York Times broke the story today about Cliven Bundy’s racist comments to supporters during one his recent rallies. Bundy said “the negro” would be better under slavery than sitting collecting welfare “in front of the government house.”
This afternoon Sean Hannity responded to Bundy’s comments on his radio show:
Rancher Cliven Bundy decided to lecture his supporters on slavery and the “negro” on Saturday. Media Matters posted the video:
Dude?
The Washington Post posted his comments:
“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.”
At this point, the entire federal system has dropped so much poisoned fruit, even THEY don't 'know' what the law is.
You would think it would become void for vagueness, or sumptin'. :-)
Sorry. I'll wait until you find the source to believe that.
A little expose there revealed BLM *killed* a thousand (1000) of them. Why ? they didnt have enough money to feed them !
Please go back and read your sources. The Desert Tortoise Conservation Center was specifically funded by fees paid by developers who 'disturbed' desert tortoise 'habitats' and by grazing fees paid by ranchers who grazed where desert tortoises were present.
When the recession hit and the housing boom collapsed, insufficient fees were being collected for the DTCC to remain in operation. Collected 'tortoise fees' were now approximately $290,000/year of a $1 million budget. Do you believe 'feed' was 71% of the DTCC's budget? No, the DTCC closed because it couldn't meet its overall budget.
When it closed, the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center released or adopted out its healthy tortoises. It euthanized the diseased tortoises and those deemed not capable of living in the wild, such as the injured and feeble tortoises. Saying the DTCC killed them because they couldn't feed them is a gross over-simplification.
The DTCC took in some desert tortoises that were relocated due to development, but most were former pets. The DTCC also took in diseased or injured tortoises and nurtured them back to health.
When the facility was closed, it released or adopted out its healthy tortoises; DTCC didn't kill them. However, the DTCC had been such a bad steward of its tortoises that 50-60% of them were diseased and more were deemed too feeble to survive. Those were euthanized because the entire facility couldn't meet its budget and not because the BLM couldn't feed them.
You’re right......very right in that analogy.....
My bad....I apologize
So do I.
The Lord will come down here when he’s ready regardless.....
...but I know what you mean.
Jon Stewart is going to have a field day on this one.
That is a mark of intelligence.
Bundy's remarks, no matter how politically incorrect, were taken out of context and have NOTHING to do with the issue at hand. I smell Harry Reid all over this and that smell is nauseating.
I think you’re on to something. ;)
Hannity is a pathetic tool here….this is not about Bundy. Bundy cannot jail anyone, tax anyone, regulate anyone, and cannot give crony deals to friends because he’s Leader of the Senate.
In a rush to show how nice he is, Hannity stepped in a big pile of doo doo here.
Hannity was a lot more embarrassing than Bundy could ever be.
Wrong. What I espouse in the freedom for a man to speak his mind plainly. To express his views no matter how it offends your sensibilities. If a man chooses to have low opinions about other races or ethnicities, he certainly has that right no matter how offensive or misguided it is. Last I checked, harboring racist views isn’t illegal…like say murder. Well, maybe to you it should be. If that’s the case, you will have a lifetime of liberals to prosecute before ever getting to any conservative.
Cliven Bundy said nothing maliciously racist. Were Negroes kept in slavery and picked cotton on plantations? Yep. I guess it’s racist to speak of historical facts. Maybe what you meant was his analogy between slavery on the plantations and depending heavily on government subsidies and the plight of the ghetto culture. If that’s the case, then Star Parker, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, et al, are racists.
What you’re doing is joining the howling crescendo of liberal race-baiters who see racists and bigots behind every word or deed. The battle lines have been drawn and you have chosen sides. Quite honestly, I would rather have one Cliven Bundy with all his glaring faults standing on my side than one hundred sanctimonious “conservative” snobs who would run from a fight…or worse yet, provide aid and comfort to the enemies of liberty. Go and bury your head in the sand. It seems you don’t have the stomach for what lies ahead.
When you look at it that way, maybe Cliven Bundy has a point.
You nailed it. Very well said.
Lol
Oblivious to your own stereotyping
That should make you happy
The practice of the law—or malpractice—is as you describe. That's my point, and that of Bundy and his friends. The real law is the Constitution. Those going along with ignoring the Constitution have it wrong. They have folded their intellectual and legal cards for fear of disobeying the herd of self-interested Federal functionaries who believe that the bureaucracy should own everything.
What "is" is subject to change. It was fear, rather than law, that allowed the Feds to steal from the states and the people, and made their theft "what the law currently is." It is a counterposing worse fear, persistently applied, that will reimpose the rule of law and redeem our liberty. An unjust (and incoherent) law—including grazing taxes on land not within the boundaries of Washington, D.C., or a Federal military base—is no law at all.
You may have missed several posts in which I said the Constitution is the Law of the Land, but thanks to Marbury v. Madison and over-reaching congressmen and federal regulators, we now have the law of the land.
I've described some cases as federal judges making decisions on federal issues involving federal policy being argued by federal attorneys representing federal agencies.
When somebody posts that Nevada is an open-range state, I think it's helpful that they know federal courts have ruled that the Supremacy Clause makes Nevada law inapplicable to claimed federal land in Nevada. If we're going to discuss Bundy with liberals and those unfamiliar with the details, IMHO it's helpful to know what is the law of the land as well as what is the Law of the Land. Facts always defeat liberalism.
It’s so sad the way conservatives bark to the Left’s race whistle. Actually, that is an insult to the intelligence of dogs. You don’t have to wonder how calling a whitey a “race traitor” worked for the Dem Party radicals in the past.
What a strange collection of *information?* you have listed here.
Funny that in my perusing of the Bundy subject, I havent come across those sort of *facts* that you have spelled out.
If you really wanted to know the truth of it all, you surely would have come across it by this time, if you had been paying attention.
You sound to me like nothing more than a mouthpiece for the bad guys.
My information and facts started with an August 2103 Free Republic thread, Desert Tortoise Conservation Center to euthanize hundreds of the tortoises, which linked an El Dorado County online newspaper article (from WaPo). I remembered the thread vaguely and looked it up during the BLM invasion of Bunkerville. I normally search for two more confirming sources, and in this case, the first article came from WaPO, so I was clearly going to search for more sources, while reading the desert tortoise links from FR Bundy threads.
“Doveryai no proverya.” (“Trust, but verify.”) - Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev.
I read four additional articles, each of which said the same about the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center’s source of funding, budget, decrease in revenue due to decrease in tortoise fees, release and adoption of healthy tortoises, and euthanasia of sick, diseased, and feeble tortoises. None said the DTCC killed its tortoises because it couldn’t feed them. If you are only meeting 29% of your budget, there are more issues than food, and the other articles say healthy tortoises were released into the wild or placed by adoption.
I would be happy to see your source stating the DTCC killed its tortoises because it couldn’t feed them; I’m interested in learning everything I can. If you with to learn more about my information and facts, you may consider these articles. Most of these date from August 2013, when none of us were reading about the Bundy subject:
Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge
DESERT TORTOISE: Conservation center prepares to close
NV conservation center will not euthanize 'healthy' tortoises
Government plans to euthanize hundreds of threatened desert tortoises it was supposed to protect
Desert tortoise faces threat from its own refuge*
*HuffPo. Always read with a grain of salt.
Funny that in my perusing of the Bundy subject, I havent come across those sort of *facts* that you have spelled out.
I don’t think it’s funny at all. The purpose of the Bundy articles, blogs, and FR posts hasn’t been to educate people thoroughly about desert tortoise issues unrelated to the Bunkerville allotment, although we’ve been exposed to excellent pieces such as Vernon Bostick’s article in Rangelands magazine, “The Desert Tortoise in Relation to Cattle Grazing.”
Very little in Nevada and the American West related to the desert tortoise focused on Cliven Bundy. It’s been an issue for decades, affecting landowners and real estate developers, and affecting land other than federal land. In Clark County, Nevada, alone, there’s a seven-chapter, twelve-appendix Desert Conservation Program Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan that includes 78 plant and animal species, including Desert Tortoises.
There’s a per-acre disturbance payment/mitigation fee for development (including grading) on private or other non-federal property, if any of those plants and animals are disturbed. In Clark County, on private or non-federal property, residents have to pay the mitigation fee to unincorporated Clark County, Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City, North Las Vegas, or Mesquite, depending on where the property is located. Desert tortoise protection goes way beyond the BLM, the federal government, Clark County, Nevada, and Cliven Bundy.
Why would it be funny that there are facts about the BLM and desert tortoises not found when perusing the Bundy subject?
Very little in Nevada and the American West related to the desert tortoise focused on Cliven Bundy. However, the desert tortoise had a monumental impact on Cliven Bundy and why a heavily militarized BLM descended on the Bunkerville allotment.
MSM says that Cliven Bundy is a racist based upon his recent comments. Bundy’s comments DO NOT show he is a racist. Likewise, not everything written on FR or contained in Bundy articles and blogs has been true.
Generally, the untruths are meaningless when compared to the government's use of military force against citizens, corruption at the highest levels, the unnecessary claims of federal ownership to massive amounts of land, particularly western land, the bastardization of the U.S. Constitution, and the abuse of federal power through excessive intrusion, legislation, regulation, and adjudication. However, not everything written on FR or contained in Bundy articles and blogs has been true.
I am sorry we got off on the wrong foot.
Please tell me what truth you think I'm missing? I believe you'll be surprised at how much of the truth we share.
BTW, don't trust what I am telling you. Never trust what you read on the internet unless you already know it to be true or adequately research its truth.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.