{"id":388688,"date":"2018-12-11T08:11:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T07:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rebranding-bundy\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T08:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T07:11:06","slug":"rebranding-bundy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/rebranding-bundy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebranding Bundy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_107799\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107799\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-09-at-10.23.42-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-09-at-10.23.42-PM.png 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-09-at-10.23.42-PM-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-09-at-10.23.42-PM-768x459.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Source Blaine Cooper | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Recent efforts to burnish the image of members of the Bundy Public Land Grab clan bear close watching. A flurry of Bundy-friendly articles and videos commenced in early November. This began with a fawning piece in the <em>Idaho Statesman\u00a0<\/em>featuring Ammon Bundy \u201ca sunlight kind of guy\u201d at his apple orchard in Emmett Idaho. The article ran in papers across the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spokesman.com\/stories\/2018\/nov\/10\/ammon-bundy-says-he-never-meant-to-create-a-moveme\/\">region<\/a>. The piece appeared just after Ryan Bundy was not elected Governor of Nevada, having garnered a whopping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/a\/midterms-2018\/top-governor-races\">one percent<\/a> of the vote. It prompted a fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idahostatesman.com\/opinion\/readers-opinion\/article221706550.html\">Opinion<\/a> rebuttal by Pat Finnegan, a retired Forest Service law enforcement officer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>They and their supporters remain freeloading domestic terrorists who intimidated, threatened and harassed Americans, while their cattle continued to damage public rangelands and armed occupiers destroyed American property at taxpayer expense\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>More Bundy-friendly pieces followed \u2013 culminating with Ammon calling Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2018\/11\/28\/ammon-bundy-breaks-with-trump-anti-migrant-rhetoric-its-all-fear-based\/?utm_term=.5abd837c8c36\">migrant border policy\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/nov\/28\/cliven-ammon-bundy-criticizes-trump-immigration-border-wall\">fear-based<\/a>, and Cliven chiming in with \u201chave a heart\u201d in a <em>Guardian\u00a0<\/em>article penned by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/09\/01\/journalism-and-the-cowboy-myth-bite-the-bullet\/\">practiced<\/a> Bundy stenographer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fear and Intimidation, Bundy Style<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bundy should know about fear-based policies. He and his gang of militants and paranoid followers inflicted a great deal of fear when they seized Malheur Refuge and militants lurked around Burns. Not to mention the fear felt by federal workers on other remote Refuges or public land areas across the country \u2014 as the standoff dragged on and on,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/10\/rebranding-bundy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Source Blaine Cooper | CC BY 2.0 Recent efforts to burnish the image of members of the Bundy Public Land Grab clan bear close watching. A flurry of Bundy-friendly articles and videos commenced in early November. This began with a fawning piece in the Idaho Statesman\u00a0featuring Ammon Bundy \u201ca sunlight kind of guy\u201d at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-388688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}