supporters to the fringe parts of the movement that think this rhetoric is okay, that sort of have woven their fabric with the neoconfederate flag. i mean, there is no one that s willing to do that, it feels like, on the right. it s not that surprising, though, right, because republican like that entire media cocoon from fox news to websites to talk radio is a real propelling force for conservative politicians, right? if you can if you can become the favorite of fox news, you can become the favorite of rush limbaugh, that is hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in donations, that s a real national presence. just look at ted cruz, before he was a senator and running for senate, his entire appeal platform came from the fact that he was a darling of the media figures. so, this is true, i think, for all republicans, not just conservative ones, but moderate republicans, too. and alienating them, even, you know, not just saying, cliven
candidate to weigh in on the bundy ranch. your family raising their cattle, grazing there for all of these years. we should have a federal government protecting the liberty of citizens, not using the jack boot of authoritarianism to come against the citizen. what senator reid calls domestic terrorists i call patriots. i d like to see the land owned by individuals, privately or the very most the state government but not the federal government. i was scheduled to be out there tonight if this didn t end this weekend. if he if they come back, i ll be out there with you. bundy revealed racism in a speech to supporters over the weekend. first reported in today s new york times that bundy began his rant by saying to those gathered, i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro. from there, bundy let it rip, spectacularly and unashamedly revealing himself to be a living vestige of the confederacy,
pro-bundy conservatives need to rethink the role that their movement has played in this rhetoric and ideas into the public s fear. brian, sean hannity on his radio show said that bundy s comments are beyond repug nan to him, beyond despicable, beyond ignorant. there is a caveat in all of this disavowel, which is that a lot of conservatives still think his ideas about patriotism and his ideas about the bureau of land management are okay. can you actually split the baby on something like this? i mean, i guess in theory you can said that cliven s mooching and stealing is heroic even though his views about minority populations on welfare are despicable. so, in theory, you can do that. it s not a good argument, and it you know, it s kind of
idea alone. you need to fuse it with something that sort of draws like the intensity of a voting base out to vote for you. and that means you need to support simultaneously policies that animate that segment of the population. which is why, i think in paul ryan s budget, paul ryan is not a racist person, but it s no coincidence his budget doesn t propose to cut defense spending or medicare or social security. it proposes to cut food stamps, medicaid, subsidies cliven bundy was talking about make black people so much subsidies that bears mentioning cliven bundy benefited from himself. exactly. and so, what baffles me, and i want to come back to this because i think it suggests that conservatives and republicans have sort of bought into their own line of thinking about this, that really this is all just about sort of like libertarian high mindedness of small government.
now, that s a show i want to make, not star in. but make. guys, give me a call. that does it for the cycle. now with alex wagner starts now. are you a cliven bundy supporter? it s been a bad day if you are. thursday, april 24th. this is now. bundy backlashed. new comments by bundy will undoubtedly leave some of his supporters with buyer s remorse. are they better off as slaves picking cotton. unhinged. he s a nut. quotes are disspigble. he s gotten so much sympathy and defense from high-profile people. is the federal government persecuting cliven bundy? called domestic terrorist i