commentary by Patrick H. Moore
We’ve all heard of hoof-and-mouth disease, an infectious and often fatal virus that decimates herds of cattle and other cloven-footed animals. Well now, Cliven Bundy, the embattled Nevada “use the Government’s land for free guy” appears to have come down with foot-in-the-mouth disease. In an interview with the New York Times, the Nevada rancher whom some Republicans and tea party activists have rallied around as he fights federal government efforts to restrict the land his cattle can graze on, suggests that African Americans might be better off as slaves, given their current situation.
In the course of his remarks, Bundy referred to African Americans as “the Negro”. Here are Bundy’s remarks verbatim as they are reported in the national media.
From Adam Nagourney at the Washington Post:
“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.”
“They put their young men in jail because they never learned how to pick cotton.” What the hell! I knew this guy was a moron, not so much because he’s “working hard” to continue to graze his cattle “for free” but because he is prone to saying truly ridiculous stuff. I didn’t expect anything quite this bad, however.
Naturally, many of Bundy’s former supporters are fleeing like rats on a sinking ship:
Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), a forner supporter, quickly distanced himself. A Heller spokeswoman told the Times that the senator “completely disagrees with Mr. Bundy’s appalling and racist statements, and condemns them in the most strenuous way.” Good for Sen. Heller. At least he knows which way the wind is blowing…
At 9:59 a.m. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who has also been supportive of Bundy’s cause. chimed in with: “His remarks on race are offensive and I wholeheartedly disagree with him.”
Yeah people! Climb on the bandwagon and climb back off as soon as the moron you’ve been supporting puts his foot in his mouth. And I thought I was prone (I am prone) to saying stupid stuff now and then. If I want to get better at being a moron all I have to do is listen to Massa Bundy, this peculiar and perhaps morally debilitated excuse for an American.
Please click here to view Robert Emmett Murphy Jr’s Previous Cliven Bundy post:
Nevada Squatter Cliven Bundy Says His Battle for Freedom May Escalate into the Next Ruby Ridge