Cliven Bundy: Doubling Down... or "Just Wondering"?

It seems Cliven Bundy is not pleased at the coverage his latest Sermon on the Mound has been getting, and would like the New York Times (among others) to kindly cut it out:

In an interview with conspiracy extraordinaire Alex Jones, Bundy said he would appreciate it if The New York Times retracted their story.

"I would appreciate that. I think they should do that," Bundy said. "They're making it a racist-type thing. I'm not racist."

Right! How dare someone look at the measured, well-thought-out remarks Bundy made at his Wednesday press conference. How DARE the New York Times' Adam Nagourney take those words down word-for-word -- that is to say, "out of context"! And HOW DARE Media Matters post this video, which was obviously done by the same people who faked the moon landing!

Cliven Bundy is toast on a stick, right?

Not to hear him tell it. Check out below the socialist orange beignet for more.

First of all, it's not him that's making this into a racist thing; it's that doggone liberal media -- which, apparently, now includes Jon Stewart's "favorite obsession":

Bundy's comments "are beyond repugnant to me. They are beyond despicable to me. They are beyond ignorant to me," Hannity said during his radio show.

(Mind you, Sean does what he does best a few seconds later: Makes this all about his hurt little butt.)

"People that for the right reasons saw this case as government overreach now are branded because of the ignorant, racist, repugnant, despicable comments of Cliven Bundy," he said.

As usual, Sean, it sucks to be you.

But back to Bundy, who -- like Paul Ryan -- doesn't believe he has a racist bone in his body. For instance, after he made his State of the Negro speech, he showed nothing but love for illegal immigrants:

"I understand that they come over here against our Constitution and cross our borders," he says. "But they're here and they're people. I worked side-by-side a lot of them. Don't tell me they don't work, and don't tell me they don't pay taxes. And don't tell me they don't have better family structures than most of us white people."

 

Gawrsh! Don't it bring a tear to your eye? And if not, maybe what he said on the Peter Schiff Show will:

I'm wondering if they're better off under a government subsidy and their young women are having the abortions and their young men are in jail and their older women and children are sitting out on the cement porch without nothing to do. I'm wondering: Are they happier now under this government subsidy system than they were when they were when they were slaves and they was able to their family structure together and the chickens and the garden and the people have something to do?

So in my mind, are they better off being slaves in that sense or better off being slaves to the United States government in the sense of the subsidy? I'm wondering. The statement was right. I am wondering.

Right! He's just "wondering" -- or, to put it in a modern context (as many a conservative bobble head tries to when someone yells, "I call bullshit"), Cliven Bundy is just "trying to start a conversation." Hey, the man is a rookie at this game! He just needs training on how to present these self-evident truths:

Loesch conceded that those remarks sounded "offensive" when taken at face value, but then defended Bundy as being merely inarticulate -- "an old man rancher isn’t media trained to express himself perfectly," she wrote. She further suggested Bundy really meant to condemn "what big government has done to the black family."

Riiiiiiiiiiight.