Patterico:
The ritual denouncement of comments made by Cliven Bundy has begun. Here’s how Adam Nagourney of the New York Times reported his comments:
Cliven Bundy stood by the Virgin River up the road from the armed checkpoint at the driveway of his ranch, signing autographs and posing for pictures. For 55 minutes, Mr. Bundy held forth to a clutch of supporters about his views on the troubled state of America — the overreaching federal government, the harassment of Western ranchers, the societal upheaval caused by abortion, even musing about whether slavery was so bad.
Here is partial video of what he said, focusing on the slavery comments. This is not a guy you want to hire as a spokesman for your ideals, but then, he makes it pretty clear that he’s not so good with words. Still, if you watch the whole thing, he’s clear that he’s not “pro-slavery” but rather musing on the sorry situation caused by our welfare state.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/QbPs6zL0o1M[/youtube]
Inelegant? You betcha. Pro-slavery? Doesn’t sound like it to me.
Still, Nagourney has to portray it that way, in order to place complaints about “the overreaching federal government” in the same category as “musing about whether slavery was so bad.” Both, we are led to believe, are radical and unacceptable beliefs.
Still, we have on Yahoo! News the following: A List of Cliven Bundy’s Supporters, Now That We Know He’s a Pro-Slavery Racist. And on CNN we get: Cliven Bundy: Another conservative folk hero exposes racial nerve. And anyone who was foolish enough to overreact and embrace this guy without any reservation is now predictably overreacting and tiptoeing away backwards lest they get the stink on them.
Well yes. Everything is racist.
Interesting that local Nevada news interviewed some area blacks about Cliven’s comments to get their take. Surprisingly, they said that; while Cliven’s statements were worded very, very poorly, they understood what he was trying to say, and went on to explain why there was validity in some of his comments. The entitlement culture discourages the traditional family in favor of unwed mothers and absent fathers, making people more dependent on government and less responsible for themselves. As a result, there is little motivation for becoming self reliant and ambitious.
Oh, not racist at all as we’ve now come to learn from your land mooching idle that construes freeloading off the government and selectively choosing what laws he doesn’t have to abide by (which happens to be those pesky ones that interferes with his profits)as patriotic, of course as long as you’re wealthy and have plenty of guns (or, something) and from one that doesn’t believe in the federal government (while waving an American flag) is that if you blame him for for his bigoted remarks and suggestions of African Americans being better off in the cotton fields under Jim Crow laws, well, that’s just all Martin Luther King Jr’s fault, or, or, or something along those lines of profound ignorance.
@Ronald J. Ward:
That’s a very long run-on sentence. I’m not sure if it’s coherent.
@Ronald J. Ward: @Kraken: I continue to find it interesting that contributors here will attempt to engage in political arguments when they are obviously ignorant of today’s politics.
It’s also interesting that some will attempt to identify English or grammar errors when once again, it’s clear they don’t know what they’re talking about. The length of a sentence has nothing to do with it being a run on sentence. “I yell dog bites.” is a run on sentence.
It is however consistent that contributors here will soporifically try to disqualify an argument with a distraction that is pretty much an admission that the dog ate their homework .
I seriously doubt that anyone would expect for you to know if it’s coherent or not but your admission to that is noted.
Mounting Evidence Reveals Cliven Bundy Is Not, In Fact, A Racist
VIDEO: Black Bundy Bodyguard: He’s Not A Racist; “I’d Take A Bullet For That Man”
I watched the local CBS report in it’s entirety, CNN edited out of the above footage interviews with other local blacks.
Black Soldiers: Cliven Bundy Is Not Racist
Delta:
As usual RJW brings out his carpet-bag of strawmen, so he can deflect from considering the opinions of some blacks on Cliven’s words. No one has said that Cliven’s poorly phrased remarks could not be interpreted as sounding racist. Nor does anyone approve of his’ off the cuff’ words. What some in the local black community have said is simply that they didn’t feel that there was racist intent behind his words. They also see this as a media attempt to evade the issue of the BLM’s overhanded thuggery, and instead use it to go after Cliven in typical Alynski tactics. Perhaps RJW thinks these Blacks are also racist.
@Ditto:
I’m sure that “some blacks” have a wide range of opinions, even those opinions that you suggest. However, invoking the opinions of “some blacks” certainly doesn’t speak for African Americans in general. I’m sure, as you say that “some in the local black community have said is simply that they didn’t feel that there was racist intent behind his words” yet that seems a bit cherry picking as from your own admission, no one has said that Cliven’s poorly phrased remarks could not be interpreted as sounding racist.
The speciousness and cowardliness really jumps the shark when you say things like “Perhaps RJW thinks these Blacks are also racist”. Your argument could have had as much credence had you said something like “perhaps RJW thinks the sun revolves around the earth” or “perhaps RJW thinks little green men from Mars have infiltrated the U.S. government”.
But as anyone of reasonable intelligence that bothers to read this thread understands, that’s perhaps not what I said and they also know that African Americans by any significant or even minute numbers do not endorse Bundy’s statements.
And then of course in the pathetic attempt of the rubber/glue game you play, I’m the one presenting that carpet-bag of strawmen.
You simply join the ranks of the long list (which in reality is probably a very small list as sock puppets are cheap and you are all so, well, obvious) of those that can’t constructively debate a political argument on it’s merit, resorting to distraction tactics to save face from your childish Obama/Democrat bashing .
@Ronald J. Ward:
The spontaneous generation of additional incoherent gibberish indicates that I’ve hit the correct nerve. It’s immensely entertaining.
But remember Ronald, a lengthy laundry list of misunderstandings does not constitute an expression of coherent thought.
Black Bundy Bodyguard: He’s Not A Racist; “I’d Take A Bullet For That Man”
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/25/black_bundy_bodyguard_hes_not_a_racist_id_take_a_bullet_for_that_man.html
Let’s all enjoy RJW’s thesaurus mined ramblings as he attempts to respond to this by weaving a new logic involving Jim Crow laws and Uncle Toms and other amusing tales of sick racial obsession.
@Kraken: In other words, you’re pretty much an empty suit and that’s the best you’ve got?
I suspect that when the well of intellect has gone dry, the only option is to entertain oneself by whatever environment surrounds them? Aside from fulfilling your primary objective, do you serve any other purpose?
@Ronald J. Ward:
Ronald, as is typical with Collective detritus such as yourself, you’ve repeatedly illustrated your inability to process new information. You’ve written hilariously adolescent laundry lists of gripes, which constitute nothing more than misunderstandings of various political views. I present cited and linked information that routinely illustrates that you have no idea what you’re talking about on any level, yet you persist in continuing to parrot the same assigned rhetoric as though the information hadn’t been presented to you at all. This indicates the blatant ineducable nature of Collective Drones, which relegates you to nothing more than entertainment for thinking people; a caged freak to poke sticks at and chuckle at the responses. Other than that, you’re clearly a worthless piece of garbage, as is evidenced by your societal function, or lack thereof.
@Kraken: @Kraken: You say I have “nothing more than misunderstandings of various political views” from an argument you admit that you’re “not sure if it’s coherent”. Why or how can you draw a conclusion from something that you admit you don’t understand? The rest of your diatribe is equally fraudulent.
@Ronald J. Ward:
It’s not so much that I don’t understand it at all. Rather, it’s that I understand it as incoherence. I think I get what you were trying to communicate, it’s just that it wasn’t articulated very well.
But much of what you like to laundry list are complaints about political positions that no one is taking, which is where much of your misunderstanding arises. Frankly it’s bizarre. I don’t know if you’re intentionally lying, if you’ve simply bought into the Collective’s indoctrination wholesale and just don’t know any better, or some combination of the two.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.
That’s one of your claims with regards to what this blog and by extension the right wing supports. Yet, if I challenge you to find a quote where a right winger on this blog or anywhere else has stated that they have an abject disdain for the lower class to be able to acquire health insurance, you will fail. Because no one has made this statement. So you’re weirdly arguing against points that no one has ever made. How can one interpret this other than a manifestation of mental illness?
Here’s an item from another one of your laundry lists.
Now, I can go ahead, and respond by presenting the following link:
http://www.redstate.com/diary/mvespa/2013/09/09/republicans-have-introduced-alternatives-to-obamacare-for-years/
What we find there is a list of ObamaCare alternatives. And not just a list written by some right wing blogger. The list is hyperlinked, sourced, to PDF and other files of the actual alternative Republican plans. You can download them, print them out, hold them in your hand, read them, post them on bulletin boards, etc.
But I can guarantee you, that within 5 seconds of reading this, you will be posting either here or elsewhere the same discredited rhetoric, rather than actually taking a look at the alternatives and formulating a new argument based on the introduction of the new information.
If you are unable to alter the trajectory of emotionally satisfying rhetoric when presented with new information, then you have no value as an intellectual.
You’re really just entertaining.
@Kraken:
Well, I have to admit that argument’s a bit out of my league as you’re telling me you understand what you construe as inarticulate, what lacks clarity, and/or what’s unclear to you. This lack of cohesion and disorder is something you are able to connect with because you are able to “recognize it as incoherent” or, or, or good lord can you possibly shove your foot further in your mouth?
But you want to disqualify my argument that you can’t understand because you don’t know if it’s coherent (and if that doesn’t work then because it’s a run-on sentence–and hell, if that doesn’t work I guess it could always be something like because it was a sentence, or something remotely stupid) without ever actually addressing the argument (which you admit to not understanding because you understand the incoherency) .
@Ronald J. Ward:
I must say, that you’re the first person I’ve ever encountered that actually types out their stutter. It certainly ads to your entertainment value.
By the way, weren’t you supposed to be ignoring me or something?
@Kraken:
LOL, I probably was. To be honest, you incoherent sock puppets are so one and the same I have a hard time keeping up with it. I mean, you all have the same personalities, the same ignorance of politics, the same misspellings and grammar errors, the same evasiveness, the same spin tactics, the same rhetoric, etc, etc, I probably did add you to that list.
I quickly pegged you way back up the thread as the usual cloned sock puppet (although I didn’t put the name to the sockpuppet) but you were shoving your foot down your throat so fast (all while informing me how entertaining it was) that I simply couldn’t resist the, well, entertainment.
@Ronald J. Ward:#3
Just exactly how is that different than Holder deciding which laws he will enforce, or BHO deciding which laws he will enforce. If the enforcers get to choose which laws they like, can’t the enforcees get to choose which laws they like?
@Ronald J. Ward:
Except that it has become a common tactic of the political left to attack blacks who don’t jump onto the collective’s “racism” bandwagon, even going so far as to call them racist for not agreeing with them.
The only one here who seems to lack “Reasonable intelligence” you.
Again you set up an asinine strawman so that you can knock it down. None of the Blacks interviewed said that they “endorse” Cliven’s words. What they did say that he he is not a racist, they agreed that he is a very poor orator, but that they understood what he was trying to say, and that they too question whether government entitlement programs create a new form of indentured servitude, where those receiving them become trapped into a system of desperate chattel of the almighty socialist State.
You are delusional RJW. I didn’t even mention Obama or the Democrats, so how could I possibly be bashing them?
You have decided that Bundy is a racist based on his awkward, poorly stated, and MSM taken out of context video-bites, (as is common practice with the MSM propaganda ministry when they want to Alynski someone). Even though you have been given affidavits by blacks who have stood right besides the man, broken bread with him and socialized with the Bundy family these many weeks, have stated that he is a good man of character, and are now standing up to declare he is not the racist you and the propaganda ministry paint him as.
Inquisitor RJW has made up his mind that Cliven is a bigot and nothing will sway him from his witch trial.
@Ronald J. Ward: #7
RJW, just to turn it around, this statement could be made: ” they also know that African Americans by any significant or even minute numbers do not
endorserefute Bundy’s statements.@Kraken: 11
I agree with you Kraken, especially about RJW, but it also seems to be true of other libs on this site. They all tend to ignore legitimate arguments and pretend it doesn’t exist then go along as if what they’ve said is gospel.
Let’s say Clive Bundy is a racist. Let’s say he refused to pay/dodged his taxes. Let’s say that he was sued in court, lost and refuses to pay up. Let’s say that his actions caused another grievous harm and that his actions will cause others to lose their lives. Let’s also say that he has lied about his intentions, and he is really just a fraud.
Does that mean he will now get his own show on MSNBC?
Wow, Kraken disappears only to sign in as a different number of trolls (who had sat idle only to storm in within minutes apart) to aid in his/her lame defense. It’s as if you don’t even try, don’t care how obviously dishonest you are, and to hell with reality or common sense. But hey, I think I just described the modern day Tea Party which you seem to genuflect to so perhaps you take that as a compliment.
I usually don’t bother reading the madness of the trolling sockpuppets (or at least those that have been obviously identified) but I knew it would be of abject stupidity and well entertaining.
@Redteam:
Let’s look at that logic. If one does not agree with their elected officials, then they can pick which laws they like. ? What the hell? So, it’s justifiable for a society to become lawless if they can find someone else that did the same? And in the shear ignorance of Redteam, there’s actually an admission that it’s fine for one to selectively choose what laws they want to abide by for their own profit. How more asinine can one get in their arguments?
@Ditto: And here’s reinvented sockpuppet #2(7 minutes later) cutting and pasting out of context and responding with the usual meaningless gibberish, trying to build some silly case that Bundy has the support of African Americans because “blacks who have stood right besides the man, broken bread with him and socialized with the Bundy family these many weeks, have stated that he is a good man of character, and are now standing up to declare he is not the racist you and the propaganda ministry paint him as”. That’s simply another ridiculous argument to compliment another ridiculous argument.
@Redteam: And here’s sockpuppet #1 back to support sockpuppet #2’s insinuation that African Americans are lining up in significant numbers to support Bundy.
@Redteam: We now have sockpuppet #2 back to not only to aid Kraken in the bogus claim of presenting cited and linked information(which looking back through the thread, doesn’t exist, isn’t there, and never happened so this is just another delusion supporting a delusion by a fellow sockpuppet) but to add icing to that rubber/glue game by claiming I’m the one who ” ignore legitimate arguments and pretend it doesn’t exist”. Just amazingly stupid.
What we have here (which I’ve identified several times) is the typical Rodeo Clown game of what today’s unhinged consist of. It’s where the rider (Kraken) gets thrown from the bull and the rodeo clowns (Ditto and Redteam and whoever) runs in to distract the bull while Kraken (and your unhinged arguments) can duck under the fence to safety.
Now what really makes me chuckle most is that Kraken (or whatever, whoever, and how many) actually made a comment earlier about “entertainment”. I mean, how could you clowns possibly be any funnier?
@Redteam:
I would argue that it’s true of every drone in the Collective.
It would be one thing for instance, if after presented with that link they would come back and say, “well Republican plan #1 isn’t any good because of X, Y, or Z, Republican plan #2 doesn’t cut it because of A, B, C,” and so on. Or if they would compare the provisions in the various Republican plans with the provisions in ObamaCare and explain why they feel those are superior. But they don’t. They’re simply unable to break free of the intellectual cage that the Collective confines them in, where they are directed to keep repeating clearly discredited rhetoric, even when it isn’t applicable. Hell, not only can’t they be bothered to acknowledge the reality of multiple alternative Republican plans and read them, the people that they sent to Washington couldn’t even be bothered to read the bill that they did support and passed. It’s simply astonishing that any of them would actually think that their opinions are in any way credible, or have any kind of value.
One of the most bizarre aspects of the drone’s psychopathology, is how they like to argue against points that no on is making. It’s as though they have a statement they want to make, but in order to make it, they have to manufacture the inverse argument and assign it their political adversaries so they can make the point they want to make. I’m convinced this is at least partially related to schizophrenia where patients have entire conversations with phantoms. It’s weird.
Take a look at RJWs rant after I had gone off to bed. He goes off about some birther/truther-esque conspiracy, the likes of which I haven’t seen since Languatron was babbling about Universal Executives and stealth marketing on the old Battlestar Galactica discussion boards. For some reason he seems to feel that the more flowery his insults are, the more credibility he has, when in fact the opposite is true. RJW is not a man that is dealing with a full deck.
@Kraken:
Awesome. It’s one of the reasons why I don’t bother reading or responding to their babble anymore.
@Ronald J. Ward:
Actually, if you knew anything about the integrity of the owner of this blog, and its moderation, you would know that no one is allowed to post using multiple monikers. So your claim that people who post here are using multiple monikers is just plain false and only an idle thought running through your own brain.
@Ronald J. Ward:
You’d have to check with Holder and Obama about that. It’s their job to enforce the laws that congress passes, not select the ones that they like. That’s the lawlessness you are talking about, right?
@Ronald J. Ward:
I was sockpuppet(sic) no. 1. Can’t you keep your sockpuppets (sic)straight?
Did you get your required OFA names all included in this one comment? Do they give you a bonus for that?
Speaking of Holder… didn’t he make some comment about the USofA being afraid of talking about race? Well, when anyone says anything critical of a minority group or the left’s divisive views on the matter, they come down on you like a ton of bricks. No wonder people are afraid to speak up.
@Ronald J. Ward:
I gave the links to the videos and to one of their web page articles. We all agree that Cliven Bundy is somewhat of an ignoramus, and such people are prone to say stupid poorly worded things. Those blacks that have stood besides him for weeks and given their affidavit have said ‘that he is not a racist, just a poor orator’ are more convincing to me than edited-out-of-context MSM clips and OFA trolls like you who have never met the man. I refuse to accept the frothing at the mouth lynch mob mentality that brands a man a racist when their is witness evidence to the contrary. Your Alynski mind tricks don’t work on us. All you have provided is smoke out of your ass in support of your witch trial.
@Kraken:
I concur. RJW definitely seems to have a screw loose.
@Ditto:
i’d say he is typical
@retire05: I seldom read your gubberish for obvious reasons but considering how I’ve pretty much called out your fraudulent argumentative skills, I made an exception.
Just when you thought things couldn’t get more stupid, my claim is proven false because Retire05 says that this is a blog of good integrity. While it’s true I don’t know the owner(s), we’re to take the word of Retire05? That’s just too funny.
@Redteam:” I was sockpuppet(sic) no. 1. Can’t you keep your sockpuppets (sic)straight?”
Well to be honest, that is a tall order as well as something undeserving of much effort. But aside from that, in all seriousness, what possible difference does it make?
@Ronald J. Ward:
geez RJW can’t keep his sockpuppets straight.
gubberish, is that a new word that’s been added to your official OFA list to get in every day?
and then along came Jones ( RJW.) Now we know what the J stands for.
PC is NOT law.
Political correctness is a fad started on college campuses to redefine debates so liberals could appear to win.
In case any of you wonder whether a philosophy is good, the test is, ”what if everybody did it.”
So, we have a recent example of how PC has destroyed debate on colleges.
In the ”old days,” before PC the ”debaters” would have been disqualified for the rule break of being ”non-topical.”
Not here.
In the ”old days,” debate was logical, supported by facts and statistics. Anecdotal evidence was worthless, and personal anecdotes were never used.
Not here.
See, being called ”racist,” is so scary we are (the PC crowd of cowards) throwing away the baby to get rid of the dirty bathwater.
And now PC is supposed to be obeyed outside of college campuses.
No way!
In the USA we have Freedom of Speech.
That means we are free to use un-PC terms.
Now, as this kabuki theater continues, let’s pause to read the edited and unedited transcripts of Bundy’s comments.
Let’s also take a moment, to watch the edited and unedited comments.
Please enjoy.
BLACK LEADER SAYS BUNDY REMARKS NOT RACIST