Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Fox News Correspondent: "They Used To String Folks Up" For What The Feds Did To Lawless Rancher

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/15/fox-news-correspondent-they-used-to-string-folk/198898

update Nevada sheriff wants to put women and children in front ;ine in case violence breaks out or are they thinking by doing that it won't cause unlike them this gov' respects women and children.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3144485/posts?page=3

and now for today's right wing idiot,
Fox News correspondent Todd Starnes defended rancher Cliven Bundy in his lawless stand against the federal government. Referencing federal employees' actions in legally confiscating Bundy's cattle because of unpaid fees and fines, Starnes said: "Don't they still have laws on the books about cattle rustling out in Nevada? ... Back in the day, they used to string folks up for stealing cattle."
Bundy is a Nevada rancher who has for decades refused to pay the federal government the fees required to allow his cattle to graze on public lands. Last year a federal court ruled that Bundy had to remove his cattle or they would be confiscated to pay the roughly $1.2 million in fees and fines he's accumulated. The confiscation began earlier this month, but was halted because the Bureau of Land Management had "serious concerns about the safety of employees and members of the public."
Bundy does not recognize federal authority over the land in question, and he and his armed supporters have repeatedly threatened violence against the federal government. Despite his lawlessness, Bundy has become a cause célèbre for many in the right-wing media.

this is so ridiculous the guy broke the law got away with it for decades now he has to pay the piper and he threatens what the right wing refers to as the biggest strongest military in the world, that was before the dcided to retract that in favor of blaming Pres., 

but i digress he got away now it's time to ante up, he and his cohorts are no better than republican politicians that do he same thing, they have imposed their will on us for decades when called on it they deny, defy and decry but change and do the right thing nah, so given that who is really the lawless ones?

During an appearance today on the radio program of Republican strategist Alice Stewart, Fox's Todd Starnes championed Bundy as an example of Americans "saying enough is enough" with the federal government.
"We do know that the feds returned some of the cattle that they had taken from the Bundy Ranch. What I find interesting, though, Alice, is don't they still have laws on the books about cattle rustling out in Nevada?" Starnes said. "Back in the day, they used to string folks up for stealing cattle."
Starnes later claimed that the Bundy incident shows that "Americans have really reached a boiling point here" and Americans have finally said, 'You know what? We're not going to stand by and let the Constitution be tramped.'"
He also took the opportunity to link the situation to the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, stating: "Look at all the government firepower that was out there at that ranch. They had more guns there than they did at the consulate in Benghazi ... if only Ambassador [Christopher] Stevens had been a protected tortoise."

basically no directly Fox is supporting lawlessness and defiance of rightful legal action by a dead beat get rich and buck if the bell rings for them.  this is another reason the armed all the malcontents but you and i both know had one shot rang from their side they all could cancel Christmas.  and they seized the opportunity to bring up their prize corral of dead horses to beat, you know the ones proven to be baseless and they are perpetrating a fraud to continue wasting your time and money trying to change the outcome.