An Inarticulate Rancher vs. Big Bad Government
It might be good for everyone to take time to watch the "WHAT YOU ARE IS WHERE YOU WERE WHEN" videos (1986) by Dr. Morris Massey. Massey investigated the role of the past by explaining the three self-programming periods each young individual goes through in developing a value system which affects their later communications and viewpoints. These gut-level feelings guide an adult's behavior, determine their worldview, and influence how they feel about what is normal and abnormal. The communications of an 80 year old life experiences and communications are not going to match up with the communications of a 25-30 or 31-40, etc. year olds, etc. The liberal speak of today's biased media is tragic and often dishonest in their portrayal of events. ~ Bill Smith, Editor
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Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Did you hear what Cliven Bundy said about Barack Obama? He said Obama was "articulate" and "clean." Oh, wait -- that was Joe Biden.
Bundy said that Obama was "light-skinned" and spoke with no "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." I'm sorry -- that was Harry Reid.
He used the "n" word, right? Well, not that "n" word, but the late West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd used to use it.
Yesterday, the New York Times broke a story that implied Bundy was a racist. "I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," Bundy said. After lamenting the condition of many poor blacks today, he asks rhetorically, "And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life … or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn't get no more freedom. They got less freedom."
Armed with these insensitive and racist statements, liberal reporters rushed to put Republicans on the record. Predictably, the politicians ran for the tall grass.
Bundy's statement is inartful and ignorant . . . but that has nothing to do with the dispute he has with the federal government. He also said a lot more (here and here) than what the Times printed.
By the way, this is the same New York Times that for months could not find one hateful word worth reporting from racist and anti-Semite Jeremiah Wright's sermons, even though Barack Obama described him as a mentor and dedicated a book to him. This is the same New York Times that only reluctantly covered the violent extremists in the Occupy Wall Street movement once they could no longer ignore it.
The thousands of Americans who rallied to Cliven Bundy did not do so because of his views on race relations or slavery. They rallied against an out-of-control government that was pointing military-grade weapons at American citizens and setting up so-called "free speech zones" over a dispute involving cattle grazing.
The left lost that PR war. Now, sadly, Cliven Bundy's rhetoric has given the left the opportunity to do to conservatives what it always does -- not defeat our ideas, but instead smear us all as bigots, extremists and Neanderthals. It is worth remembering that they did the very same thing to Rep. Paul Ryan just a few weeks ago when his words were free of any racial insensitivity.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
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Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Did you hear what Cliven Bundy said about Barack Obama? He said Obama was "articulate" and "clean." Oh, wait -- that was Joe Biden.Bundy said that Obama was "light-skinned" and spoke with no "Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." I'm sorry -- that was Harry Reid.
He used the "n" word, right? Well, not that "n" word, but the late West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd used to use it.
Yesterday, the New York Times broke a story that implied Bundy was a racist. "I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," Bundy said. After lamenting the condition of many poor blacks today, he asks rhetorically, "And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life … or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn't get no more freedom. They got less freedom."
Armed with these insensitive and racist statements, liberal reporters rushed to put Republicans on the record. Predictably, the politicians ran for the tall grass.
Bundy's statement is inartful and ignorant . . . but that has nothing to do with the dispute he has with the federal government. He also said a lot more (here and here) than what the Times printed.
By the way, this is the same New York Times that for months could not find one hateful word worth reporting from racist and anti-Semite Jeremiah Wright's sermons, even though Barack Obama described him as a mentor and dedicated a book to him. This is the same New York Times that only reluctantly covered the violent extremists in the Occupy Wall Street movement once they could no longer ignore it.
The thousands of Americans who rallied to Cliven Bundy did not do so because of his views on race relations or slavery. They rallied against an out-of-control government that was pointing military-grade weapons at American citizens and setting up so-called "free speech zones" over a dispute involving cattle grazing.
The left lost that PR war. Now, sadly, Cliven Bundy's rhetoric has given the left the opportunity to do to conservatives what it always does -- not defeat our ideas, but instead smear us all as bigots, extremists and Neanderthals. It is worth remembering that they did the very same thing to Rep. Paul Ryan just a few weeks ago when his words were free of any racial insensitivity.
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Gary Bauer is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families
Tags: inarticulate rancher, big bad government, Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service. and "Like" Facebook Page - Thanks!
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