Nevada rancher and infamous scofflaw Cliven Bundy appears in perhaps the most awkward political ad of the year.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy resurfaced this week in a bizarre campaign ad for a far-right Black Nevada congressional candidate, with both men challenging Attorney General Eric Holder to a debate about racial issues in America. 

“This is one white man who’s not scared to talk about race,” Bundy says in the ad for Independent American Party candidate Kamau Bakari. “I dare you to come to Las Vegas and talk to us.” 

“And don’t give us that ‘you’re too busy’ stuff,” Bakari says. “You weren’t too busy to go to Ferguson, Missouri.” Bakari is running to represent the state’s 1st Congressional District. 

Bundy and his wife registered as voters with the Independent American Party this past May, following an event celebrating his “courage in standing up for state sovereignty” by refusing to pay grazing fees for his cows’ use of federally-owned land.

Holy crap on a stick, what did I just watch?

Actually I saw this for the first time last week on, I think, the Chris Hayes Show. However I could not find it online anywhere to post.

Now that I have found it, thanks to Raw Story, I am once again gobsmocked that anybody thought this was something that should see the light of day.

I don't know who I feel worse for, Cliven Bundy for being perhaps the worst actor this country has produced since Nicholas Cage? This Kamau Bakari for being such an embarrassment to his race, his state, and the country as a whole? Or us for having watched this atrocity? (Never mind, it us.)

As I am sure I do not have to tell you this Bakari guy is trailing WAY behind his opponent in the polls, and I imagine after voters get a load of this ad his political career will essentially be road kill.

Cliven Bundy on the other hand, I think he has a real future in "I am not a racist" videos.