Posted on 12/20/2002 9:11:59 PM PST by concerned about politics
Sen. Byrd, Confederate General
It's a good thing Trent Lott didn't take this role: America's most famous former Klansman, Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd, eagerly awaits his big-screen debut as a Confederate leader.
"My role is small, admittedly, and probably won't earn me an Academy Award," West Virginia's "Senator Pork" told the Charleston Daily Mail. "But it was exciting to participate in a project that is helping to promote our nation's history."
Plantation Owner: Is This Typecasting?
In the Civil War movie "Gods and Generals," Byrd has a cameo as Confederate Gen. Paul J. Semmes, a Georgia plantation owner and banker.
Oh, dear. This can't help the new campaign by the Clintons and the rest of the Democrat attack machine to portray all Republicans and white Southerners as Confederate-flag-waving racists.
By the way, Semmes died from battle wounds at age 48. Byrd is 84.
"Director Ron Maxwell included Byrd; and fellow Sens. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, and George Allen, R-Va. and media mogul Ted Turner, who financed the $51 million production, in small parts," the newspaper reported Thursday.
Byrd gushed, "This film allowed me the opportunity to help bring American history to life, to spring it from the pages of history books into the flickering images of the movie screen."
Will there be any flickering images of him waving a Confederate flag? If so, no problem: He's a Democrat.
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