07-11-2008, 10:52 AM
07-11-2008, 03:55 PM
Byrd has repented repeatedly of his racist youth.
"In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics, but to "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena." In his latest autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions." Byrd also said, in 2005,
I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
In the Christian faith, the sinner who repents is welcomed. Those who continue to call Byrd a racist are liars.
Helms never repented his racism.
"In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics, but to "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena." In his latest autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision—a jejune and immature outlook—seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions." Byrd also said, in 2005,
I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
In the Christian faith, the sinner who repents is welcomed. Those who continue to call Byrd a racist are liars.
Helms never repented his racism.
07-11-2008, 04:18 PM
JustMe Wrote:
Jacket Wrote:
http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=OPINION
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
You're fairly disgusting...I personally shared concern for Ted Kennedy in his sickness and put away my dislike of his policies...I still share that concern for him and his family...You can rest assured that due to people like you I likely never would vote for a liberal (though I might actually pull the lever for Cracker if he were running)...
Too bad you can not do the same...
May Jesse Helms rest in peace...
You kill the messenger much JM? I simply posted an article to be read and commented upon and you attack me? But I'm the jerk?
I neither endorsed, nor made unfavorable comment. Simply wrote enjoy.
Wow!
07-11-2008, 06:44 PM
JustMe Wrote:
Well I commented didn't I!
After Kennedy passes maybe someone will post a similarly hate filled opinion piece on him and we can comment on it.
After Kennedy passes maybe someone will post a similarly hate filled opinion piece on him and we can comment on it.
No, you attacked me. What I posted was an article hoping for intelligent comments. It appears you failed on both accounts. At least Doc showed back up for a comment.
07-11-2008, 07:24 PM
The above link does not appear to link.
From the Daily News Journal opinion page by Guest Columnist Ed Kimbrell.
"Kimbrell: Sen. Helms spawned neo-cons
By ED KIMBRELL • July 10, 2008
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Jesse Helms' tombstone should read Patron Saint of the New Right, White Racist, Senator No.
The conservative political agenda we have seen for nearly 25 years was forged by Helms and it is embedded in a belief in moral purity and white supremacy.
The list of his positions is a record of uncompromising absolutism that rang true to the voters of North Carolina: white, blue-collar, middle-class Americans. But he wisely cloaked his deeds as a champion of Main Street values of family and religion.
Helms' vision of America was narrow because he could not admit to or believe in its restlessness and constant changing. He may have been a brilliant campaigner and the man credited with saving Reagan's faltering run for the presidency, but he became the paradigm for today's attack ads and slash and burn of truth.
Here's a man who wanted prayer in schools, free enterprise, a strong military and "decency, honor and spiritual and moral cleanliness in America" who would be publicly admonished by the Justice Department for his 1996 campaign for civil rights violations. He had mailed 125,000 fliers to heavily black precincts warning that voters risked imprisonment if they cast ballots.
Think Karl Rove.
So unrelenting in his absolutism was Helms that he turned the word "liberal" into meaning anyone who disagreed with him. From his earliest days as a TV commentator in 1960, his five-minute tirades attacked intellectuals, big government, high taxes, student protests, the Kennedys and on and on.
Helms gave us Rush.
Reading his record is the same as reading the neo-con agenda of today. He opposed social change. He threatened to defund federal support for arts groups and school busing. Helms forged the gold standard for race-baiting, divisive ads that were brutal, mean-spirited and racist. He fought affirmative action. He fought abortion rights. He fought gay rights. He fought court-ordered busing to integrate schools in Raleigh. He attacked labor unions and "their labor bosses."
He fought black-voter registration drives. He launched a Senate filibuster against the bill making Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.
He so feared popular culture, especially TV programming, that when he and his wife were watching a show he felt violated his sense of moral purity that he jumped up and changed the channel.
The neo-conservatives may well place him in the pantheon of those who brought the Republican Party into power but they should pause and reflect on what they have become in the process. The brutal excesses of power during the last eight years by the White House, which include war crimes, distorting scientific inquiry, and that God has ordained them, will be writ large in our history.
Jesse Helms' legacy is part of the GOP today, and the right-wing commentators and Fox News learned at his knee. Perhaps, as one major magazine ran recently, it's time for the GOP to die and be, dare we say, born again? One would hope so.
Ed Kimbrell is a professor in MTSU's School of Journalism."
Now, JM, read it and comment intelligently or just hush.
http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article.../807100308
From the Daily News Journal opinion page by Guest Columnist Ed Kimbrell.
"Kimbrell: Sen. Helms spawned neo-cons
By ED KIMBRELL • July 10, 2008
Read Comments(14)Recommend (2)Print this page E-mail this article
Share this article: Del.icio.us Facebook Digg Reddit Newsvine What’s this?
Jesse Helms' tombstone should read Patron Saint of the New Right, White Racist, Senator No.
The conservative political agenda we have seen for nearly 25 years was forged by Helms and it is embedded in a belief in moral purity and white supremacy.
The list of his positions is a record of uncompromising absolutism that rang true to the voters of North Carolina: white, blue-collar, middle-class Americans. But he wisely cloaked his deeds as a champion of Main Street values of family and religion.
Helms' vision of America was narrow because he could not admit to or believe in its restlessness and constant changing. He may have been a brilliant campaigner and the man credited with saving Reagan's faltering run for the presidency, but he became the paradigm for today's attack ads and slash and burn of truth.
Here's a man who wanted prayer in schools, free enterprise, a strong military and "decency, honor and spiritual and moral cleanliness in America" who would be publicly admonished by the Justice Department for his 1996 campaign for civil rights violations. He had mailed 125,000 fliers to heavily black precincts warning that voters risked imprisonment if they cast ballots.
Think Karl Rove.
So unrelenting in his absolutism was Helms that he turned the word "liberal" into meaning anyone who disagreed with him. From his earliest days as a TV commentator in 1960, his five-minute tirades attacked intellectuals, big government, high taxes, student protests, the Kennedys and on and on.
Helms gave us Rush.
Reading his record is the same as reading the neo-con agenda of today. He opposed social change. He threatened to defund federal support for arts groups and school busing. Helms forged the gold standard for race-baiting, divisive ads that were brutal, mean-spirited and racist. He fought affirmative action. He fought abortion rights. He fought gay rights. He fought court-ordered busing to integrate schools in Raleigh. He attacked labor unions and "their labor bosses."
He fought black-voter registration drives. He launched a Senate filibuster against the bill making Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.
He so feared popular culture, especially TV programming, that when he and his wife were watching a show he felt violated his sense of moral purity that he jumped up and changed the channel.
The neo-conservatives may well place him in the pantheon of those who brought the Republican Party into power but they should pause and reflect on what they have become in the process. The brutal excesses of power during the last eight years by the White House, which include war crimes, distorting scientific inquiry, and that God has ordained them, will be writ large in our history.
Jesse Helms' legacy is part of the GOP today, and the right-wing commentators and Fox News learned at his knee. Perhaps, as one major magazine ran recently, it's time for the GOP to die and be, dare we say, born again? One would hope so.
Ed Kimbrell is a professor in MTSU's School of Journalism."
Now, JM, read it and comment intelligently or just hush.
http://www.dnj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article.../807100308
07-11-2008, 07:48 PM
Byrd, nor Kennedy are a topic on this post. Staying on topic would be nice. Your objectivity is appreciated. I see you share Helm's dislike for academia also.
07-11-2008, 09:59 PM
None, any more. They found their homes in the republic party.
07-11-2008, 10:47 PM
Roland Martin is a KKK racist?
07-11-2008, 11:34 PM
JustMe Wrote:
JustMe Wrote:
I wonder how many racists are still in the democrat party (no such thing as the democratic party by the way)...I guess we will see one way or another this coming November...
Again, we will see how many racist (or at least people with racist thoughts) are in the democratic party in November...Should Obama lose, that might be a hint...
Well we have the dishonest factor as well. Like the Republicans pushing the madrasa lies. Of course they don't just do it to Democrats. I remember hearing that McCain had a black baby and it seemed to have made a difference to lots of Republicans.
07-12-2008, 12:07 AM
Yes, but it is an adopted daughter from Bangladesh. Rove used that whisper point to turn the South Carolina primary back to Bush in the 2000 campaign.
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