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muntrv

(14,505 posts)
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 09:09 PM Apr 2014

Cliven Bundy's "ancestral rights" are as genuine as

the gondolas at the Venetian.

Tue Apr 22, 2014 at 09:00 AM PDT.

Cliven Bundy's 'ancestral rights' are every bit as authentic as the gondolas at The Venetian

Cliven Bundy is the Nevada cattle rancher who for more than two decades has refused to pay grazing fees to the federal Bureau of Land Management, claiming that he should be exempt because (a) he does not recognize the existence of the Federal government in Nevada and (b) he has ancient ancestral rights to the land upon which his cows graze and poop.

Bundy's story has inspired Fox News—particularly Sean Hannity—to whore itself out to the armed militia freakshow in a naked ploy for ratings. While even Hannity has conceded that Bundy probably is on the wrong side of the law, they've presented him as a sympathetic figure: A simple man fighting in his twilight years against an out-of-control Leviathan state helmed by the anti-Christ himself, President B. Hussein Obama-Ayers.

Bundy says his family has rights to the land dating back to the 19th century, a claim that even if it were rooted in reality wouldn't change a damn thing about the fact that he's a deadbeat rancher refusing to pay his fare share who doesn't even have the support of his fellow ranchers in Nevada. But it turns out that not even that claim is true, as flagged by our very own nachtwulf and uncovered by the investigative reporting team at KLAS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As they report, despite Bundy's ability to tell a good yarn...

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Cliven Bundy's "ancestral rights" are as genuine as (Original Post) muntrv Apr 2014 OP
Soon he will tell he discovered America and he owns the entire nation. The RW doesn't try to get Thinkingabout Apr 2014 #1

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Soon he will tell he discovered America and he owns the entire nation. The RW doesn't try to get
Tue Apr 22, 2014, 09:28 PM
Apr 2014

correct story but it does not correct the lies they tell. Bundy is a Welfare Cowboy.

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