RNC Spokesman Is Furious The GOP Has Been Lumped With Bundy...

[ProSense]

RNC Spokesman Is Furious The GOP Has Been Lumped With Bundy (VIDEO)

A top spokesman for the Republican National Committee got heated during an interview Friday on CNN, saying Republicans have been unfairly linked to Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his racist remarks.

RNC communications director Sean Spicer denounced the comments from the rancher who became something of a conservative hero earlier this month during a standoff with the federal government over gazing fees. Bundy's star came crashing down on Thursday after the New York Times published quotes in which he wondered aloud whether blacks would be better off as slaves.

But Spicer also used the opportunity to criticize the media for injecting GOP politics into the story. He did not acknowledge, however, that several high profile Republicans, including possible 2016 presidential contenders, had praised the rancher before the racist comments became public.

"I think the comments that Mr. Bundy made with respect to race and other things were inappropriate and wrong, 100 percent out of line and not part of the discourse we need to have," Spicer said. "But that being said, what I find fascinating as the chief spokesman for the Republican Party is that when a guy has a problem with cattle grazing and has a discussion about the size of the federal government and the overreach of the federal government, makes a comment every reporter calls the Republican National Committee asking for comment."

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cliven-bundy-cnn-sean-spicer-gop

GOP rats jumping ship from the good ship SS Cliven Bundy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024864423

[Lifelong Protester]

1. Oh, boo-fricking-hoo

It's all on you, now, RNC. So own it, you smugsters.

[kelliekat44]

57. I think he means that Bundy has been lumped with the RNC. nt

[pscot]

2. They may run, but they can't hide

Everybody knows what they are and what they stand for. Everyone understands their coded messages.

[Blue Owl]

3. Time for the ol' Lump-n-Dump

[DFW]

4. And they were expecting.....???

That's like going to sleep one night in your own bed and then being upset because when you wake up the next morning, you're in the same bed.

[freshwest]

53. Great analogy. The GOP has been in bed with these freakazoids for years! Too late to plead the 5th!

[Ikonoklast]

5. Every bigot I know votes Republican. Every. Single. One.

Their continuously shrinking party is becoming what it is destined to be, a rural, regional political party full of of bigoted racists.

[AlinPA]

9. Same here. I know a lot of people in the small towns around my home; those that are openly racist

are Republicans without exception.

[Dawson Leery]

10. Same here.

[Lochloosa]

14. Ditto. North Florida. And I love pointing it out to the racists assholes.

[liberal N proud]

31. Both my racist brothers vote republican

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. What??? They've been kissing Clive Bundy's ass since he began spewing crap, and now they hate him?

These idiots have to make up their mind which side they're going to be on -

THE CLIVE BUNDY REPUBLICAN

or

THE LIBS

You can't have it both ways - they're opposites.

[Thor_MN]

20. Their big problem, binary thinking

Ol' Cliven can only be 100% right or 100% wrong. They can not accept the parts they agreed with, without also accepting the racism. They have no clue how to partial own something, so now they are annoyed that they have lost him completely.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

50. Binary thinking is bad, but Cliven Bundy is radioactive as long as he has an open mouth. nt

[Skittles]

30. the man dared to speak what they all think

[Sarah Ibarruri]

46. True, that. :) They just need to own it, instead of scrambling for cover at being exposed. nt

[Skittles]

54. it's strange

they're proudly misogynist, homophobic, anti-worker - why don't they own their racism? EVERYONE KNOWS THEY ARE RACIST.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

63. Maybe it's just getting too obvious even for Clarence Thomas, Herman Cain and Allen West ?

Or maybe just a plain old fear of one day getting their skinny, lying behinds thrashed by someone who finally reached the end of his/her rope with all the Repuke racism?

[The Magistrate]

67. You Put Your Finger On It, Ma'am: Bundy Said What The Black Freaks Like Cain And West Say Often

They say it to a white audience, of course, which laps it up because it is exactly what they believe and think right, and since a black person says it, it must not be racist, right? It is virulently racist, however, for all that it is fed to them for their amusement by a sort of political blackface act, and they generally have just enough wit to avoid saying out loud, straight up in plain language, outside a closed circle or near a hot mike. Bundy simply broke the 'black Republicans only' rule....

[Skittles]

68. thanks, The Magistrate!!

that explains it perfectly

[Sarah Ibarruri]

69. True. "for all that it is fed to them for their amusement by a sort of political blackface act"

"Bundy simply broke the 'black Republicans only' rule...."

So true.

And I've never understood that anyway. Most people (of all races) have self-respect and are proud to be who they are. I just don't get any race allowing its race to be bashed, particularly by those who hate the race, OR, bashing one's own race in the presence of those who have spent their life bashing one's race.

What is wrong with the Clarence Thomases of the world, anyway? Mental problems? Deep-seated self-hatred like that found in right wing females who hate females and want the rights to be taken from females? Such as that psycho, Phyllis Schlafly?

[CanonRay]

7. It's GOP Senators, Congrressmen, and Governors who were out trumpeting Bundy's "cause"

'fraid you own it now, GOP. Good luck with that. I think 9% of the black vote is now a lofty goal for you.

[craigmatic]

8. Well he should blame fox news.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Finally, their anti-government agenda is finally imploding on them.

[Arkana]

12. Hey, you lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas, pal.

I think you dumbshits might need to think twice the next time some yodel from East Bumfuck, Nevada goes on an anti-government crusade.

[libodem]

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[phantom power]

15. Here's to finding lots more opportunities to make them furious

[leftyohiolib]

16. when a dumbass racist makes a dumbass statement you go to the party of dumbass racists

[bvar22]

17. The Republican Party's incestuous relationship with FOX "News" is the source.

Fox serves as an unquestioning campaign proxy and propaganda outlet for the Republican Party.
The FOX News commentators immediately aligned themselves with Bundy,
proclaiming him a Patriot and an American Hero.
It is too late to walk that back,
and it is far too late for the Republican Party to try to distance themselves from Fox News.

[Skidmore]

18. After all the dog whistling and time spent cultivating these people as their base, I feel no

sympathy. There is no excusing this association or any of the others they have established over the years with the goal of disenfranchising and trampling on people of color and women. This one man clearly is the embodiment of all of the bigotry and misogyny they represent.

[Scalded Nun]

19. Between the lines

How this should have read....
"I think the comments that Mr. Bundy made with respect to race and other things were just spot on, 100 percent on the mark and part of the discourse we have daily, BUT...he was not supposed to say that publicly!"

[ProSense]

21. Have to add

Steve Benen's post:

Political figures who rallied to defend Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy must have known they were taking a risk. Indeed, much of the Republican establishment chose to do the exact opposite precisely because they were afraid to gamble on a man who doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the United States government.

But some prominent GOP officials rolled the dice anyway. Fox News and Glenn Beck celebrated the rancher as a hero, while U.S. senators like Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) cheered Bundy on, calling him a “patriot,” even as he declared an ability to ignore laws and court orders he doesn’t like.

It’s become increasingly difficult to maintain this posture. For one thing, anyone relying on the threat of violence to act above the law hasn’t earned the backing of anyone in the American mainstream. For another, some of the basic elements of Bundy’s claims now appear to be false.

<...>

Frankly, it was pretty obvious before that federal lawmakers like Rand Paul and Dean Heller were making a huge mistake rallying behind Bundy. When it comes to choosing a proper cause celebre, it’s best not to choose a man who’s said, “I don’t recognize [the] United States government as even existing,” and whose supporters appeared prepared for a confrontation – a potentially violent confrontation – with American law enforcement.

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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/bundy-i-want-tell-you-one-more-thing

What does it say when U.S. Senators become apologists for lunatics who declare they don't recognize the U.S. government? Still, as the OP shows, Republicans are starting to realize they were dumbasses for jumping on this lunatic's bandwagon.

[Cha]

60. Thank you for that ProSense.. Benen has a way of putting it into

proper prospective. What does this say about Senators Heller and Paul? That they're judgement sucks. that they think they're working for a government that "Does Not Even Exist".

[catbyte]

22. LOL. Nice try, I guess. These bagger politicians insult my intelligence every single day. They think

all of us are as stupid, ignorant, & gullible as their supporters.

[Arugula Latte]

23. What they're really thinking: "We almost got away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"

[DinahMoeHum]

24. Too late, assholes. The bell rang. . .

. . .and it can't be unrung.

[maddiemom]

25. Republicans are delighted to have Fox news in their corner until they lead

them into something like this. You can put the Bundy thing squarely on the Fox "news"/Republican cabal. It's been coming for a long time.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Too bad, so sad

He loses!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Too bad, GOPers.

Ya lie down with dogs, ya get up with fleas.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Sorta like saying that the Mafia is furious to be lumped with criminals.

[underpants]

29. That's what happens when your Marketing/PR department is running things

"We all thought Fox News was working for us. It turns out we are working for Fox News"
-David Frum

[ProSense]

32. The Kochs’ AFP starts scrubbing its Bundy support

The Kochs’ AFP starts scrubbing its Bundy support
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024870874

[Politicalboi]

33. I bet they think the Dem's made that happen

Cause we control Rand Paul, and Sean Hannity.

[santamargarita]

34. If you act like an asshole, talk like like a racist, support fascists and terrorists,

then your are servile scum also known as a Republican.

[MohRokTah]

35. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

Of course, in the case of Bundy and the GOP, that was an insult to both dogs and fleas.

[RainDog]

36. walks like a duck... n/t

[closeupready]

37. Haha!!!! Sorry, but lie down with ...

well, you know how that goes.

[The Wizard]

38. The Bundy fiasco

ripped the scab off of Republican bigotry. Everyone knows what their underlying message has been since Goldwater, and now it's official. Pox News is the unwitting dupe and the GOP stepped in it. There's no where to hide now.

[2naSalit]

39. !!!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

40. LOL!!! You guys are ALL a joke!...

This is a pattern with these clowns falling in love with a STORY.

A total FICTION.

I bet this idiot would claim the Terri Schiavo case was real.

So was "Joe the Plumber".

Hell, their entire telling of the Reagan Years is a total FICTION.

[Iliyah]

41. Geez whiz what gibberish

The Gubmint per GOPers is always trying to take your freedumb from y'all and taking up arms and bullshit support for asshole racist Bundy was 100% in GOPers' favor until ahem he opened his big arse mouth and told America/world exactly how he feels.

[johnnyreb]

42. Stand yer ground, republicans!!

'Long as yew got both feet stuck in it!

[Hekate]

43. Aaaawwww. He haz a sad that the wingnut the GOP embraced is, well, a nut. nt

[lpbk2713]

44. If he quacks like a rethug, if he waddles like a rethug ...

then he's a rethug.

[louis-t]

45. He keeps trying to make it 'better'

by continuing to talk. The BLM person who decided to walk away and let this guy hang himself should get a medal. I bet they're grinning like the Cheshire cat.

[SallyAnn]

47. Boo Frickin Boo

Nobody twisted the arms of these GOP er's who backed that welfare moocher. Complain about injecting politics into the matter? Wow, wonders never cease. Who started it, well the GOP DID. Now it comes back to bite them on the rear, they can't handle it, and complain they are being picked on. Waaaaaa

Suck it up GOP, you asked for it, you received it. And fittingly so. Perhaps the next time some of you conservative nut jobs will think twice before opening your mouths.

[NewJeffCT]

48. Didn't all the Republicans support that Duck Dynasty guy

for remarks almost as bad?

[LynneSin]

49. Here, let me post the list of democrats and progressives that supported Cliven Bundy...

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.

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Oh wait, there were none!!!

[RainDog]

51. Bundy is just repeating what Republicans have said

Republican Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro, Ark.:

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/05/republican-extremists-in-their-own-words

Slavery was good for black people:

“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” (Pages 183-89)

If you think slavery was bad, you should have seen Africa:

African Americans must “understand that even while in the throes of slavery, their lives as Americans are likely much better than they ever would have enjoyed living in sub-Saharan Africa.”
“Knowing what we know today about life on the African continent, would an existence spent in slavery have been any crueler than a life spent in sub-Saharan Africa?” (Pages 93 and 189)

Black people are ignorant:

“Wouldn’t life for blacks in America today be more enjoyable and successful if they would only learn to appreciate the value of a good education?” (Page 184)

At CPAC: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/03/15/1729331/cpac-slavery-minority-outreach/

At a Republican leadership conference: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/44/post/obama-impersonator-makes-racial-gay-jokes-at-gop-gathering/2011/06/18/AGVLAUaH_blog.html

From Ron Paul newsletters: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/angry-white-man

From Lee Atwater's deathbed attempt to get right with god by admitting he appealed to racism to win votes for republicans - http://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/us/gravely-ill-atwater-offers-apology.html

Atwater at work here: http://americablog.com/2012/11/audio-of-infamous-lee-atwater-interview-its-a-matter-of-how-abstract-you-handle-the-race-thing.html

The Republican Party of Lincoln would be appalled that today's Republican Party is nothing more than the rump of the confederate "state's rights" racists.

[Solly Mack]

52. "who became something of a conservative hero"

"several high profile Republicans, including possible 2016 presidential contenders, had praised the rancher"


Y'all made him your right-wing poster boy. He's yours. All yours.

[rock]

55. Yeah, and they don't like to be called racists

but they are.

[tanyev]

56. Maybe you should be furious at your GOP elected officials who leapt off that cliff

before taking a good look over the edge.

[Turbineguy]

58. In my view, the GOP needs all

the enemies it can get!

[Cha]

59. Oooops! Classic Memory Hole.. Sure we clips of the repbubs praising bundy

.. when there was nothing to praise before more stupid came out.

thanks PS

[malaise]

61. Well they rallied to his treasonous cause and he is a

registered ReTHUG.

How freaking delish!!!

[surrealAmerican]

62. Since when is it "government overreach" to charge ...

... way below market rates to graze cattle on federally-owned land? Is this really what Mr. Spicer meant to say?

[Fla Dem]

64. It's not just his racist thoughts and comments, it's "doesn't believe in the US gov't"

mooching off federal land we all own, and ready to go up against the gov't with an armed militia. He's no different than any terrorist who attacks a government facility, like Timothy McVeigh.

[Moostache]

65. The tar and feathers here extend beyond just Bundy and overt racism...

The GOP hates being called racists even more than they hate Hillary Clinton (and THAT's a lot of hate right there)...but I wish I could have hidden camera footage of them hearing Bundy intone "Let me tell you one more thing I know about THE NEGRO..."

The look of abject horror on the faces of the more intelligent of those psychopaths would have been priceless, but the other thing that the GOP has got a huge problem with is the gun totting fools with their anti-government nonsense that had microphones and cameras breathlessly following them around saying things about "there is no legitimate federal government", "we were going to put all the women up front...", "this is just our freedoms being taken away by tyranny". People, even some GOP voters, watched that and were appalled. Not just by the images and soundbites but also by the sheer magnitude of the ass-backwardness of it all.

The party of "patriots" was now championing people who claimed there is NO USA. That was the GOP's very own "Goddamn America" moment and it was played over and over and over and over until....Bundy came out sounding like he was addressing the local Klan meeting and then kept on saying it afterwards.

Now I get under the skin of the local GOP yahoos by asking them why they hate black people AND America...to say they are not amused is putting it lightly...LOL!

[NastyRiffraff]

66. This is a "top spokesperson" for the RNC?

This is the best they can do? What he says is pure gibberish. I had to read the last paragraph three times to make any sort of sense It's only when he says "not part of the discourse we need to have" that you get what he is saying, if only inadvertently: Bundy said plainly and right out loud what most Republicans think. But the "discourse" has to be hidden and coded, not this icky plain speaking.

[calimary]

70. It reminds me of what happened when the whole Monica Lewinski mess blew up around Bill Clinton.

You couldn't find a Clinton defender ANYWHERE. They all ran out on him. And the only reliable and consistent voice or talking head anybody could ever get, to take on any on-camera or other media defense of him was Lanny Davis. Lanny Davis? WHO? Never heard of him. He was way far down the food chain but by Jove he was out there as THE PUBLIC FACE of the Clinton/Monica scandal when nobody else wanted to step up. DeeDee Myers? Vanished. George Stephanopulous? Bye-bye. Of course THEY went on to big-ass media jobs. Nicely rewarded for turning on their boss and utterly deserting him. Sweet people. So suddenly you have this unknown outta where-the-hell in the lower layers of the Clinton White House who was suddenly all over the airwaves and TV/cable news as THE Clinton Spokesman Of Record. Whenever the subject came up and they needed SOME pro-Clinton person on there to take the "other side" during the non-stop pounding of him, cue Lanny Davis. Everybody else was AWOL. They didn't want to be associated with him. Didn't want to get his cooties all over themselves.

So I think that's what's happening now, on the other side. May be indicative of just how icky this is. NOBODY's stepping up who's of any import. Anybody heard from rinsed penis, for example? kkkarl rove? bill kristol? Hello? Anybody? Nope. Just crickets and some guy pushed out to the front by the chickens behind him, to take the heat and be the face that's now added on here for all to see.