Here's Cliven Bundy trying to remind everybody that DumFux News is really in near-perfect agreement with everything he had to say "about the negro":
It's almost impossible for anybody not to know something about what's been happening with ol' Clive by now, and I'm not here to tutor you. So if you can't keep up, take notes. And if you're still a little confused, then you're prob'ly gonna be better off in some other class.
Now that I've weeded out the slackers and alienated most everybody else in my vast audience of ones and twos, let's get on with it: Bundy obviously saw his opportunity to dance in the spotlight and he was determined to do it. We saw video of him being all folksie and shucks-ma'am. And we saw him galloping up that little hill with the stars-n-stripes. And there he was speechifyin' at a podium festooned in red white and blue bunting, flanked by militia members looking all stern and cool and macho as they (almost literally) fondled each others' metal penises etc etc etc.
But then it all went to shit when Bundy took that next fateful step - which everybody "on the left" knew he'd take eventually, btw. And suddenly, there's Bundy trying hard not to acknowledge that his 15 minutes were up about 20 minutes ago.
So anyway - two things:
1) DumFux News is in full retreat / damage control mode - disavowing him like he was Jim Phelps and the cassette tape's already self-destructing, while Bundy refuses to play along.
2) If history is any guide at all, the gurus at GOP and DumFux News will Etch-A-Sketch the fuck outa this little episode, and in a month or two the bubble-dwellers will be thinking it's all back to "normal" - like none of this ever happened.
The good news may well turn out to be that this has an effect on the big squishy middle.
Bunches of people vote more or less according to "the fashionable trend". They don't pay much attention to politics, and they don't know much about positions or policy, even tho' they have a general philosophy in mind and they tend to vote in a certain way. These are the ones who get really uncomfortable in any discussion where they have to go beyond their usual centrist platitudes. They haven't spent any real time or effort reading or listening or watching - they leaf thru People and Cosmo and USA Today, and they just kinda pick up a general attitude; they seem to get their political views by some kind of Social Osmosis.
It's not so much that they want to vote for somebody they think will best represent their interests (figuring that out requires work, which requires time, which a lot of people just don't have). It's more like they only want to avoid being made fun of if they ever reveal who they voted for.
Sean Hannity isn't running away from Cliven Bundy because Bundy's a racist asshole.
Hannity's running away from Bundy because Hannity's a craven political panderer who knows he has to un-couple Bundy from the GOP's candidates - in a big fuckin' hurry.
Here's what the symbology was supposed to be: Every vote for a GOP candidate is a vote for freedom-loving patriots in The Real America® (roll the footage of Bundy waving the flag - what, you tho't video like that happened by accident?).
But here's what it is now: Every vote for a GOP candidate is a vote for inveterate racist fuckheads like The Welfare Cowboy (roll the sound clip of "...about the negro").
When the thing kinda boils down to people thinking "you vote for the guy who's most like you", you're not gonna want people thinking you voted for the GOP because that makes them think you're an inveterate racist fuckhead like Clive Bundy.
Let' see if the Dems can make it stick.
Pena Nieto: Yes, Mr. President. The proposal that you are making is completely new, vis-à-vis the conversations our two teams have been having. But I have gathered this from the position that you have taken in terms of trade. I think we have the route to continue having balanced trade between both nations. And frankly, to tell you the truth Mr. President, I feel quite surprised about this new proposal that you are making because it is different from the discussion that both of our teams have been holding —
Trump: Enrique, if I can interrupt – this is not a new proposal. This is what I have been saying for a year and a half on the campaign trail. I have been telling this to every group of 50,000 people or 25,000 people – because no one got people in their rallies as big as I did. But I have been saying I wanted to tax people that treated us unfairly at the border, and Mexico is treating us unfairly. Now, this is different from what Luis and Jared have been talking about. But this was not a new proposal – this is the old proposal. This was the proposal I wanted. But they say they can come up with some other idea, and that is fine if they want to try it out. But I got elected on this proposal – this won me the election, along with military and healthcare. So this is not a new proposal this is been here for a year and half.
