Posted on 05/22/2009 2:09:39 PM PDT by calex59
Please post the picture of Robert Byrd in his Grand kleagle outfit. I have an ex-friend who thinks I am lying about Byrd being a KKK officer.
I’m pretty sure even the liberal-leaning Wikipedia mentions his past on this issue. Point the ex-friend there.
Aren’t “Kleagles” exercises for ladies?
I did, but he claimed I was lying, as a true liberal he shouted me down and wouldn’t listen to what I had to say. If I send him a picture of the a**hat in his uniform I might convince him. Doubt it but it is worth a shot. I couldn’t find a pic on the internet!
Actually Grand Kleagles are recruiters for the KKK.
Just to to google images and type in the name and “kkk” and you will be able to shut him right down.
why bother in this time and age, he will only see a photoshopped picture.
Same thing.
Yep, any picture you post will be claimed to be photoshopped.
A Senator’s Shame
Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK
By Eric Pianin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 19, 2005; Page A01
In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the “Grand Dragon” for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.
As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd’s organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. “The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation,” Baskin said.
West Virginia Democrat Robert C. Byrd, in his Senate office last week, has written a new book about his half-century in elective office. A fiddler and a student of history, Byrd has served twice as Senate majority leader. (By Melina Mara — The Washington Post)
The young Klan leader went on to become one of the most powerful and enduring figures in modern Senate history. Throughout a half-century on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) has twice held the premier leadership post in the Senate, helped win ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, squeezed billions from federal coffers to aid his home state, and won praise from liberals for his opposition to the war in Iraq and his defense of minority party rights in the Senate . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105.html
Even if you came up with a picture he’d claim it was Photo shopped .... even if Byrd said it himself, he’d claim that Byrd was coerced .... you won’t win ....
Thanks I have the pic now and sent it to my ex-friend who said that I should never call him again because I was lying!
Byrd didn’t have gray hair and wrinkles when he was in the klan.
Your friend’s head would probably explode if you told him that Martin Luther King was a Republican.
Actually, he can not handle the fact that the Republican party was formed to fight slavery. He goes ballistic. He will not let me talk, but insists that I listen to him. Typical liberal, but I guess since that I have known him so long that I keep hoping I can reach him.
But they believe the Pope was a Nazi - two Popes.
make a bet with your ex friend on which one of you is more likely to end up at the bottom of a mass grave.
You are probably correct. He gives accounts of CA back in the 1950s that I know are lies, but he insists are true.
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