Cliven Bundy Tries To Deny His Racist Statements

Nevada Rancher Cliven Bundy is busy backtracking after an interview published in the New York Times revealed his true racist colors.

After the Times article came out, Bundy appeared on Alex Jones radio program and claimed he was misquoted. Bundy does not deny the other racist statements he made but he told Jones, “No, I did not say picking cotton,” according to journalist Adrian Chen who posted an audio clip on Twitter.

Too bad for the Nevada rancher, his racist quotes were caught on camera. So, he is racist, a freeloader AND a liar.

Bundy comments:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Watch the Media Matters video to hear Bundy say what he says he didn’t say:

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Cliven Bundy Tries To Deny His Racist Statements – But He Was On Video