Say it ain’t so Cliven

Just when you think you have something genuine, it blows up in your face.  Cy 7 Roger Clemens = fraud.  Live strong Lance Armstrong = fraud.  Jim Tressel = liar.  Tiger Woods = sex crazed addict and liar.  To name just a few sports heroes of mine that turned out to be not exactly heroes.  What's next?  Professional wrestling is fake?  Harlem Globetrotter's games are fixed?

Yesterday a folk hero fell when we heard the oddest line of logic about blacks since the 60s – 1860s that is - from Cliven Bundy.  According to Bundy blacks were better off as slaves.  Yes.  That’s what he said.  There’s no parsing it.  There’s no context that the statement can be placed in to make it sound even the least bit reasonable.

I am not shocked about what Cliven Bundy has said.  I’ve heard respectable politicians and even black leaders condemn what the federal welfare state has done to the black family as an institution.  Maybe that was the point Bundy was trying to make.  That is far cry, no make that an intergalactic cry, however from Cliven Bundy’s actual comment that blacks were better off as slaves.  Huh?  Really Cliven?

Using his own logic then, maybe Bundy would be better off under the onerous thumb of the federal government.  Funny how it’s always someone else who’s better off under the control of others.  That’s always the left lib argument.  (Insert victim group name here) are better off with a leg up in life and being wards of the federal welfare state than having nothing more than the equal opportunity in life to try their own hand at carving out their own niche.

Bundy’s comments remind me of a couple of old sayings.  The first is from comedian Ron White.  While describing an encounter with a local constabulary White quipped, “I had the right to remain silent, but I didn’t have the ability.”  Why in the world is Cliven Bundy holding forth on the state of blacks or anything else for that matter in America in the first place?   Just STFU.

The second was advice from a wise old Marine Corps colonel.  He told me before a particular decision briefing to a general officer, “Once the general agrees to your proposal.  Shut the projector off.  Collect your papers.  Thank him and leave.  If you keep on talking, you might just say something to change his mind.”  Cliven Bundy had won his point and should have just STFU, but he rambled on past the point of decision and now has lost much of what was gained.

Harry the roach Reid pounced on Bundy’s lunacy.  The roach has painted everyone who supported Bundy’s stand against an over-armed and over-zealous BLM as racists.  The despicable roach and his worthless no talent hatchlings are seizing upon Bundy’s incomprehensible statements to renew their plans to divvy up Nevada for their own profit.  Anyone who opposes their self-serving plan is now painted a Cliven Bundy type raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist.

It probably does not stop in Nevada.  Anyone who opposes any aspect of odious federal over-reach will now be labeled a raaaaaaacist along the lines of Cliven Bundy.

When I first commented on this story I noted that Bundy was stealing grazing rights.  In a later post I noted that Bundy was committing an act of civil disobedience which necessarily means he was breaking the law.  I continue to support his stand against the feds sending 200 armed storm troopers to seize his property, disrupt traffic, establish “free speech zones” and generally threaten and intimidate him and his family in order to collect an as yet undefined penalty.  

Cliven please issue a full, careful and sincere apology in writing and then just STFU.  It's not as if you are some type of Slow Joe Biden, Harry the roach Reid, Rev? Notso SHARPton  or Alec Baldwin left lib who can make repeated racial, homophobic, anti-American and anti-sematic slurs that will be ignored or laughed off by other left libs and their lapdog media whores.