





In case you missed it, comedian Jon Stewart skewered a Nevada cattleman who became somewhat of a folk hero to the right wing before he spouted some very racist views—saying blacks were better off as slaves. Really.

Cliven Bundy owes the government $1 million for grazing his cows on public land and is in an armed standoff with officials seeking to collect by confiscating them—but he doesn’t recognize the federal government’s existence, so it’s been slow going for agents.

Yet, for someone who doesn’t believe in government, he says he’s a little bit like the Founding Fathers.

“The bit of him that’s like the Founding Fathers is the part that we’re ashamed of,” said Stewart. So, the slavery part.