Bundy: If People Are Offended By Me, MLK ‘Didn’t Do His Job’

[kpete]

In response, Bundy again slammed the media for portraying him as a racist while stressing that he supports civil rights. He invoked the example of Rosa Parks, saying "I want her to be able to sit anywhere in the bus and I want to be able to sit by her anywhere in that bus."

"Maybe I sinned and maybe I need to ask forgiveness … but you know when you talk about prejudice, we're talking about not being able to exercise what we think and are feeling," Bundy eventually conceded.

"If I say 'negro' or 'black boy' or 'slave,' I'm not -- if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offensive then Martin Luther King didn't do his job," he added.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cliven-bundy-mlk-rosa-parks-offended

[JoePhilly]

1. I think he should continue to express every thought and feeling as it happens.

[gordianot]

20. I agree it is like watching a plane crash.

While working at an airport we got word a plane was attempting a landing with the nose wheel up. Not wanting to see any one hurt I still watched. No one was hurt. Not wanting to see even the idiots supporting Bundy hurt I watched no one was physically harmed. Bundy is utterly fascinating in his delusions of self worth exceeding even the banality of Sarah Palin. I should look away but find it fascinating.

This Bundy character will keep it up as long as there is a microphone or camera close. Eventually my longtime favorite disaster Sarah Palin will make an appearance attracted by the opportunity to partcipate in the show and thereby achieving a Nirvana of "stupid".

[ChisolmTrailDem]

23. And not just for the obvious reason but because it's also quite entertaining. nt

[Xipe Totec]

26. He needs to raise the other cheek. nt

[brush]

27. This guy doesn't know when to shut up.

God! He keeps digging himself in deeper and deeper.

[JoePhilly]

29. I'm expecting the Koch brothers to offer to pay all his govenrment fees, if he will just STFU.

[CatWoman]

2. you dumb fuck, here's a little help

[boston bean]

6. here he is on his ranch

[JoePhilly]

31. Or ...

[seabeyond]

7. a couple decades ago, i heard the same from the same type of people, here in tx.

i do not hear it anymore cause i am with a younger crowd, and the young rw know i wil not listen to there shit without speaking out, loudly, and for a long ugly rant.

but, ...

ya. i know that man.

[seabeyond]

3. geez, it is always the whine. dont feminists hear the same shit. if i am, then it is the feminists

fault.

ah... and then artfully to the .... white man oppressed garbage.


if i call a woman a b or a c word.....

fuck him piece of garbage. cause we all know his bigotry. hear it clearly. call him a piece of shit (our right, right? and at least it is a response to his action, not who an unchangeable factor of who he is) and tell him to fuck the right off.

[warrior1]

4. keep digging racist

[bigdarryl]

5. I'm sick of these RACIST bringing up MLK and Rosa Parks

That includes Palin's dumb ass and other rethugs

[hlthe2b]

8. It just gets worse.... Yup, let him continue to spew...

He does more to expose the RW and these hypocritical "Libertarians" than just about anything else.

[spanone]

9. proceed, dumbass

screw your sorry ass deeper in the ground

[Rex]

10. Wow...

[MohRokTah]

11. Looks like he pulled out a backhoe to keep diggin' that hole.

What a moron.

[Rex]

15. The backhoe they were using was too small, had to get a bigger one.

Evidently he won't be happy until he doubles down enough to find Middle Earth. The man is pure moron.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. Mr. Bundy doesn't seem to understand the First Rule of Holes:

When you're in one, stop digging.

[Generic Other]

13. Jon Stewart's take

Comedian Jon Stewart tackled Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's comments on blacks and slavery at the top of Thursday night's "The Daily Show."

"In a surprising twist, states rights-sovereign citizen Cliven Bundy is apparently also a professor of Negro Studies," he said without sounding very surprised at all.

Stewart played back video of Bundy's remarks at a press conference last weekend, in which he asked if blacks were "better off as slaves picking cotton" than "under government subsidy."

"I should have mentioned he's a professor at Duke University -- David Duke University," he said, referring to the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jon-stewart-cliven-bundy-negro-studies-professor

[gollygee]

14. This begs the question

of just what he thought MLK's job was.

MLK's message has been so bastardized by the media that ANYONE seems to use it to back up any opinion at all dealing with race in any way.

[Johonny]

16. Dear Bundy, The problem is you think MLK's job was to pick cotton as a slave

I haven't noticed Bundy having any problems exercising how he thinks or feels even when those things are threatening to harm our federal agents and ignoring court orders... so tell me more about this thing called prejudice.

[DirkGently]

17. I think Cliven Bundy is literally suffering from dementia.

It doesn't excuse the load of nonsense he and his family and their supporters are spouting, and I'm sure he would spout something similar if he were in better cognitive health.

But this is a person whose faculties are failing him. Every time I've seen him interviewed, he's meandered off into the weeds pretty quickly. Not just the rightwing weeds. The regular old dandelions and crabgrass. He's an older person, and he's not all there. He looks lost and confused. Afraid.

I think it's cruel of his family to have him out in public talking like this.

And what does it mean of the American rightwing that they're comfortable with someone who isn't even in his own version of his "right mind" out in front?

[CanonRay]

19. His son believes the same shit

as to the gun-toting assholes at his ranch. What's their excuse, they don't all have dementia. He's an ingnorant asshole, that is all.

[gollygee]

22. People are taught this

it isn't from not being taught what's right, and it isn't from old age or craziness. It's something people are raised to believe.

[Paladin]

33. Absolutely. This is vintage neo-Confederate propaganda, pure and simple.

I started hearing that "Blacks were so much happier when massa was looking after them on the ol' plantation" bullshit at least 50 years ago; it's as central to neo-Confederate lore as is the "My stars n' bars flag is about heritage, not racism" idiocy.

And by all means, Mr. Bundy, keep on talking. Maybe Roger Ailes can find you a spot on Fox "News," with a group of your I.Q and coherency equals......

[CBGLuthier]

18. Gee, if MLK did not "do his job" could that maybe be because he was "fired" from his job by a racist

asshole like Mr. Bundy before he could complete his "job?" This moron just keeps stepping in it.

[Iggo]

21. "those people"

[Catherine Vincent]

24. I just viewed his brief interview on CNN

Dear Lord! The media needs to stop interviewing this man.

[gollygee]

25. Oh, I don't know

I think it's good for people who were claiming he was a patriot to see him for just what he is.

[chrisstopher]

28. Just wait

By the time Bundyfest is half over, he will either be in jail or in a rubber room.
Either way, it'll be interesting to watch.

[Hugin]

30. What about Token?

[joeybee12]

32. I think we've reached comical levels of racism now...

Thank God he lives way out nowhere...God forbid he should ever encounter anyone other than his own kind, right-wing, brain-dead fascists.

[JaneyVee]

34. Sure, blame it on the black guy.

ASSHOLE

[Paladin]

35. Hey, Bundy: That dead calf you're walking around with didn't do the job, either.

Desperate, pathetic ploy by the deranged old coot for sympathy; the CNN people took his head off for it, this morning. Very gratifying.

[d_b]

36. lol this asshole

and he lives in a town called Bunkerville? you can't make this shit up...

...or maybe you can, and andy kaufman is about to tear off his cletus bunghole latex mask.

[11 Bravo]

37. Nice job, asswipe. You even managed to work in a "those people". Fucking dunce.

(Obviously this is aimed at Bundy, not kpete!)

[951-Riverside]

38. You know the other ranchers thinking about freeloading off public land are groaning right now n/t