The hero of Fox News speaks again

The hero of Fox News speaks again

“Receiving welfare and housing – is that a sense of slavery when you get caught up in that and can’t get out of it for generations?" Bundy said, as quoted by The Guardian. "They don’t have freedom.”

Hey look, Sean Hannity's favorite Nevada private-army-having land-stealing government-not-recognizing freedom-patriot is back to explain welfare and slavery and black people again. Well step up, Cliven Bundy, the conservative movement needs your wisdom Cliven Bundy may be the perfect conservative—which is, of course, why he became a cause célèbre on Fox News and in other conservative venues. He not only laps up all the government welfare he can get his hands on, in the form of heavily subsidized grazing rights on land that isn't his, and refuses to pay even the remaining pittance he's asked to pay, and considers himself so entitled to all of it that he'll demand armed insurrection if the government tries to take those things away from him, but if you then ask him what's wrong with America today he'll gladly tell you that it's all the other people sucking on the government teat that are the problem. They're not independent and hardworking, like he is. Real Americans don't collect meager government stipends so that they can feed their families even after they've lost their jobs, real Americans rustle up a band of mentally unbalanced, heavily armed goons and demand the government give them free things at gunpoint. You know: Patriotism.

Yup, Cliven Bundy is Fox & Friends in a western hat. It's too bad he had to spoil his moment of fame by explaining to the nation that the problem with "the Negro" nowadays is that "they never learned to pick cotton." Cliven again wants you to know that he misspoke on that one, and that some o' them black Americans are really getting somewhere these days.



Bundy also told the publication that he often sees well dressed blacks when he flies, which he said was a sign of progress for the black community. "They really are progressing and prospering," the rancher said. "I understand they’ve raised themselves up to a point where they are equal with the rest of us. And I’m so happy for them. But what about those that are in the ghetto and can’t get out?”

Why the hell does this guy not have his own Fox News show? His theories on who should get free government money and who shouldn't perfectly mesh with those of Sean Hannity or Neil Cavuto. His admiration of black Americans who can wear suits pairs perfectly with Bill O'Reilly's astonishment when he sees them visiting fancy restaurants

No, you pulled the plug on this guy too soon, Fox News. He is to your network what airplane crashes are to CNN. Cliven Bundy is your wheelhouse.

