7 Absurd Right-Wing Follies This Week: Bundy/Hannity Breakup Edition

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http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/7-absurd-right-wing-follies-week-bundyhannity-breakup-edition



1. Cliven Bundy: Black people were better off as slaves. Now, they put themselves in jail.

That Cliven Bundy turned out to be a colossal racist is not a hugely surprising twist ending to the ridiculous Hannity/Bundy love affair, media circus and saga that was such a marvel to behold this week. If there is a more perfect example of Fox and the right being exposed as the utterly backward haters they are, we cannot imagine it. The greatest fiction writer in the world would be hard-pressed to come up with a more airtight scenario. Truth cannot only be stranger than fiction; it can be more satirical than satire itself.

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2. Cliven Bundy: If I’m racist, it's MLK's fault.

Further demonstrating his tenuous grasp on both logic and reality, Bundy elaborated on his deep thoughts on race on CNN later in the week. He was very taken aback that people found his musings on whether black people might be better off as slaves offensive, and so he sought to clarify them, or find someone else to blame. Oddly, he figured it was Martin Luther King Jr.’s fault, for not finishing “his job.”

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3. Sean Hannity: Shocked and appalled at Bundy’s racism, because it reinforces the “ignorant view” that conservatives are racist.

Well, you know the old expression, if the shoe fits . . . or in Bundy’s case, the boot.


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4. Alex Jones: The NY Times totally misquoted Cliven Bundy’s words that he actually said on TV.

Not everyone abandoned Cliven Bundy in his darkest hour when so many media outlets called him racist, including his Fox Fairweather Friends. Crazy conspiracy theorist Alex Jones invited the rancher to clarify his comments about black people and slavery and set the record straight, because, as Bundy has said, he loves all people, and he never said he was prejudiced. He never said it, so how could he be? Because racists always say: Yeah, I’m racist.

[Kath1]

1. I enjoy Hannity from time to time for the unintended laughs he provides.

He really delivered last week, tripping all over himself with the Bundy story.What scares me a little is that he somehow actually seems to believe the things he says.

[shenmue]

2. He always seems to have such a confused look on his face.

Like he doesn't understand anything. I'm sure that's for a reason.

[Kath1]

3. Yes!

I'll tune in his radio show sometimes in the car when I get off from work. He SOUNDS just as confused as he looks on TV. Always good for a giggle. The women who call him always amaze me - that fawning awe-struck tone in their voices - "Hiiii, Seeeannn!" Then they let loose with the most uninformed, knee-jerk right wing BS I have ever heard.

[cui bono]

5. Worse though is that a lot of viewers believe what he says.

That's the big problem. Doesn't matter if the person saying it believes it or not.

[Kath1]

6. True.

And that aspect of it is really kind of scary.

[DirtyDawg]

4. Hey Hannity...

...not saying that 'all' conservatives are racist...am saying that all racists are conservative.