Fox's Krauthammer Blasts Conservatives For Their Support Of Cliven Bundy

Krauthammer: It's “Truly Appalling” That Anti-Government Stances Can Make You “A Conservative Hero”

From the April 24 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:

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CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I agree entirely with Chuck. First of all it isn't enough to say I don't agree with what he said. This is a despicable statement. It's not the statement, you have to disassociate yourself entirely from the man. It's not like the words exist here and the man exists here. And why conservatives, or some conservatives end up in bed with people who, you know, he makes an anti-government statement, he takes an anti-government stand, he wears a nice big hat and he rides a horse, and all of a sudden he is a champion of democracy. This is a man who said that he doesn't recognize the authority of the United States of America. That makes him a patriot? I love this country, I love the Constitution, and it is the Constitution that established a government that all of us have to recognize. And for him to reject it was the beginning of all of this. And now what he said today is just the end of this.

And I think it is truly appalling that, as Chuck says, there are times when somehow simply because somebody takes an oppositionist stand, he becomes a conservative hero. You got to wait, you got to watch, you got to think about it. And look, do I have the right to go in to graze sheep in Central Park? I think not. You have to have some respect for the federal government, some respect for our system. And to say you don't and you don't recognize it and that makes you a conservative hero, to me, is completely contradictory, and rather appalling. And he has now proved it. 

Previously:

VIDEO: Cliven Bundy's Racist Comments

AUDIO: Bundy Doubles Down, Calls OnNew York Times To Retract Accurate Quotes

The Conservative Media Who Brought You Cliven Bundy

Fox Finally Breaks Silence On Rancher's Racist Remarks