It looks like Nevada freeloading rancher and right-wing racist hero Cliven "Hoof" Bundy isn't through with lecturing us on The Negro. After his racist rant on slavery and the cotton-pickin' Negro earlier this week went viral, Cliven Hoof doubled down this morning on CNN, saying:
"We don’t have freedom to say what we want. If I call — if I say negro or black boy or slave, I’m not — if those people cannot take those kind of words and not be offended, then Martin Luther King hasn’t got his job done then yet. They should be able to — I should be able to say those things and they shouldn’t offend anybody." (emphasis added)That should remove any doubt from his die-hard apologists who say that Cliven Hoof simply misspoke the other day, or that he needed help with his media skills. His racist views are held by the far-right "patriot" militia and sovereign citizen thugs that showed up heavily armed to confront law enforcement officials. Even more clear is that his views reflect the id of the Rethuglican / New Confederate / Stupid Party base. In the eyes of the political and media leaders of the party, Cliven Hoof's main sin was being so candid about what they all believe, but won't say out loud.
BONUS: If you haven't seen Rachel Maddow's passionate historical tracing of the "posse comitatus" and white supremacist militia movements back to Bundy's crackpot ramblings, you owe it to yourself to watch it. He's your hero, right-wingers.
(photo: Was it something I said?)
