@macdaddy: MD to answer your question as to why what this rancher says or believes matters. Fox News. Fox almost single handedly made this man a conservative darling. It was the same old anti-government (truth be told anti-Obama) rhetoric they have hung their hat on for years. Even after the temperature on the situation went down and the other news organizations moved on, Fox kept fanning the flames of discontent almost hoping in my opinion for some type of armed confrontation between the feds and the rancher's supporters.Along with that many conservative politicians jumped into the fray with their usual anti-government rants, which in my view is totally hypercritical since they themselves represent the government. On the other end of the spectrum Harry Reid didn't exactly help to calm the situation either.It is the idiot rancher himself that took the focus off the land issue by making his racist comments. Now Fox and conservative politicians can't run away fast enough. Fox News started their organization as the one source where information would be fair and balanced. Their presentation is neither fair nor balanced. Talk about the so called mainstream media if you like. Fox is the one that pledged to be different. At the end of the day they are not.*To All - Spare me the Obama analogies*

Yes it sure causes a spin and distraction from the real issue and bumdy fell into that trap....It is a common theme from the last 6 years

He is just a ol' cow rancher...he doesn't know about being "pc"

Why doesn't he just shut up and pay what he owes? I thought we here at ADC hate moochers.

This man will probably be on the 'church circuit' soon - competing with the Duck Dynasty Dude for pulpit space and $.

interesting take from a Black Marine at the Bundy Ranch:The rest is here:
www.ijreview.com/201 4/04/132699-black-ma rines-letter-refutes -left-wing-mediyeah, you won't find the MSM reporting that...

I do not care what Cliven Bundy thinks. We need to get past our misplaced adoration of this man as a present day American Cowboy ridin' the range, sleepin' under the stars and bein' free as the breeze, doing as he pleases and recognize him as the freeloader he is.

@traxla: There's no way to collaborate whether a black marine actually said this because the person uses a pseudonym. So if I were a legitimate news organization I'd be hesitant to run with the story too. Now if I was able to interview him to verify while concealing his identity that's another thing. But for right now this "statement" doesn't bear much weight.

@rocket: Of course they wouldn't... it doesn't fit their agendas...

@Undecided: I dont think he is a liberal, but I may be mistaken

Fox News was covering the Bundy Cattle Battle with the same gusto that CNN was covering the missing Flight 370....but then Fox News found the "Bundy plane" and now they can't shut the damn beacon off, it keeps spewing.

Actually, CNN is picking this up...
www.cnn.com/video/da ta/2.0/video/us/2014 /04/26/cnn-tonight-i ntv-bullock-cliOh, and he claims to be Army, not Marines... and has given his name as well...My faith in the MSM has been restored... well, not really...

As Redneck said earlier, the media is not the issue.Neither is race.Cliven Bundy needs to pay his debt to the government.