Directions From Silent Al Gore's HQ To KKK Grand Wizard State Park In Tennessee

Directions from Gore Headquarters To Nathan Bedford Forest State Park ^

[Doctor Raoul]

Step	Directions	Elapsed Distance
1	Begin at 601 Mainstream Dr on Mainstream Dr and go 0.4 miles	0.4
2	Turn right on Great Circle Rd and go 0.4 miles	0.8
3	Bear left and go 70 feet	0.9
4	Turn left on Metrocenter Blvd,TN-12,US-41A and go 0.9 miles	1.7
5	Bear right on ramp to I-65 and go 0.6 miles	2.3
6	Continue on I-40 West Ramp and go 0.6 miles	2.9
7	Continue on I-40 and go 81 miles	84.1
8	Exit I-40 via ramp and go 15 miles	99.4
9	Continue on access road and go 400 feet	99.5
10	Turn right on W Main St,US-70-BR and go 1.0 miles	100.5
11	Continue on E Main St and go 400 feet	100.6
12	Turn left on Hall Ave and go 200 feet	100.6
13	Turn right on TN-191 and go 8 miles to 1825 Pilot Knob Rd	108.6

Click Here For INSIDE THE BELTWAY by John McCaslin or read below:

We're listening
We've written in recent days that Al Gore is getting more "on air" time of late than the real vice president. Click on the tube, and there's Al Gore.
In his most recent prime-time appearance, on CNN's "Inside Politics" Monday night, Mr. Gore became one of the latest Democrats to blast Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott for saying at a senator's 100th birthday party last week that "the United States would have been better off had Strom Thurmond won his 1948 presidential campaign."
It was a compliment that Mr. Gore and his Democrat brothers, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, quickly called racist, given that Mr. Thurmond ran in the first half of the last century on the "Dixiecrat" ticket.
If Mr. Gore is serious in condemning both Mr. Lott and Mr. Thurmond, in his next television appearance let's hear him attack his own state's allegiance to fellow Tennesseean Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the leading cavalry generals of the Civil War.
Has Mr. Gore forgotten that Forrest, after the war, not only joined the Ku Klux Klan, he became one of its early leaders?
That didn't stop Mr. Gore's state of Tennessee, however, from dedicating Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park, a popular recreation area. Look around Tennessee and you'll even find a Nathan Bedford Forrest monument or two. Many residents still celebrate Nathan Bedford Forrest Day on July 13, the day he was born.

Now every good race baiting Democrat knows "picnic" is a code word down south, and damn if this state park doesn't have a picnic pavillion.

FROM THE STATE PARK WEBSITE:

This park was named for General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the intrepid Confederate cavalry leader, who on November 4, 1864, attacked and destroyed the federal supply and munitions depot at (Old) Johnsonville at the mouth of Trace Creek. His operations were concentrated along the river in the vicinity of the park and the town of Eva.

The park was dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the greatest military tacticians and leaders of the American Civil War, in 1929 on land acquired in part from Benton County.

FUNNY, NO MENTION OF SILENT AL'S HERO.

[Doctor Raoul]

Seems Al did get around to having the photo of the statute of Nathan removed from the website. The statute that towers about Highway 65 for all to see, on land that was cleared by state prisoners way back when.

Bet those were mostly minorities in that chain gang.

Al Sharpton should demand reparations from Al Gore.

[scooby321]

or another Famous Tennessee Bigot Al Gore St

[gov_bean_ counter]

I predicted after Nov 5th that the Democrat establishment would leak a series of stories about Algore's corruption that will blow him out of the water.

Dorgan has delivered the first message. Algore isn't bright enough to realize that he will be destroyed before the Democrat establishment lets him get anywhere near the nomination again.

[Doctor Raoul]

And Gore tried to make an issue of where did the Governor of Texas stand on the issue of a Confederate flag in South Carolina, raised by a Democrat Governor who was now a Democrat Senator?

I'm sick and tired of race baiting Democrats.

[MHGinTN]

If you get the chance, watch the Hardball program that aired from Lehman College this evening (Dec 11). Mister Gore made the most blatant race baiting comments I've ever witnessed, claiming the Trent Lott buffoonery was part of a republican strategy to divide the races, to marginalize blacks! On camera during this demonic episode were black students (I presume), shaking their heads in agreement with the goreghoul.

As I've said at FR before, there is a democrat strategy afoot to create as much dissonance in the public forums, in anticipation of the coming debates over partial birth abortion which will expose the long defense of the indefensible by the democrat party. This was the most race baiting hate-filled approach I've ever seen to divide blacks from the rest of the politi. It can't be accidental and it is far more designed than the buffoonery and idiocy of Trent Lott in his exposing his bigotry. Hold on to your saddles folks, the noise and hate baiting is only just beginning! divide and conquer is the democrat methodology ... it's just so astonishing to see it done so blatantly.

[potlatch]

The Democrats were just waiting for 'something to blow up about' and Lotts poor choice of words gave it to them. It's totally overblown, in my opinion, they are putting thoughts in his head that may not have been there.

Where are they when Daschle, Bird, Clinton, Jackson, etc, speak their little 'gems'?

By the way, I don't trust internet map directions. My daughter lives 2 miles down a straight road from me. The internet directions tell me to turn left and go around a large block, then back onto the original road!! LOL.

[goldstategop]

I'm sure the NAACLP will get around to soon eradicating this tribute to the Confederacy after its finished obssessing over South Carolina. <sarcasm

[PoorMuttly]

There's a LOT more to Forrest than this....we covered it some months ago on a thread about L.A. Seems he said some very beautiful and conciliatory things...was well received by black audiences...and really should be quoted often. I am NO fan of the KKK...but this man said some excellent things, and should be remembered for it.

[Doctor Raoul]

That may be, but let's continue in the spirit of Democrat politics and use poor old Forest's dark side to hoist Gore on his own petard.

Clinton said recently, "We don't have a destruction machine like Rush Limbaugh." And just when you thought Bill Clinton stopped lying.....

[Registered]

Trent Lott need only drag out the "God Hates Fags" founder Fred Phelps who was such a gooooood friend to Al and Tipper Gore in Tennessee..in fact, Phelps has the photos that he could provide to Lott.

Who is doing the counter-attack planning on this one? Once again, nobody answer at the RNC!

They have to learn how to play this game of hardball.

[Doctor Raoul]

Thanks for the memories....

[Doctor Raoul]

Click here for a whole page of Gore and the God Hates Fags people.

Nice smile Al.

AL and Tipper armin arm with the homophobes.

FROM THAT WEBSITE:

Gore, who was quoted by the Nashville Tennessean in 1984 saying homosexuality is not "an acceptable alternative that society should affirm" and said in his 1984 U.S. Senate race that he would not accept money from gay rights organizations and that he opposed a "gay bill of rights," reportedly sought the support of the Phelps family in his 1988 presidential campaign, and invited the Phelps' to the Clinton-Gore inaugurations of January 1993 and January 1997.

I don't tolerate Phelps, why does a caring liberal like Gore?

[Registered]

Some people have selective memories, well, when it comes to Dems, the press has selective histories.

[Coto]

The Court House in Murfreesboro, TN (located in Rutherford County) is dedicated to Nathan Bedford Forrest....

[Doctor Raoul]

That's even closer to Al.....

[Doctor Raoul]

FROM JOHN McCASLIN's INSIDE THE BELTWAY TODAY:

 Where was Al?
     "Strom Thurmond is a man of character, wisdom, energy, and leadership, and he's one big reason America is back on the road to greatness again."
     —President Reagan, at a fund-raising dinner for Sen. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Republican, in Columbia, S.C., Sept. 20, 1983
     
     Run, Forrest, run
     We're pleased that the majority of Tennesseans who contacted us yesterday — and there were dozens — read between the lines as we challenged Al Gore to condemn his state's allegiance to Nathan Bedford Forrest, cavalry general of the Civil War who became a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
     Should Mr. Gore really attack admiration for Forrest? Of course not.
     Are Tennesseans racist for dedicating a state park in Forrest's name? Of course not.
     Is Trent Lott a racist for saying Sen. Strom Thurmond, South Carolina Republican, would have made a great president? Of course not.
     History is history, and somebody in Tennessee or elsewhere needs to remind Al Gore that it cannot and should not be rewritten (we're reminding him up here because after he made his big announcement that he was moving back "home" to Tennessee, he appears to have returned to Washington).
     To give our readers their due, Jay Hubbard, a "Proud Tennessee Volunteer," writes: "I wanted to give you the opportunity to clarify and, if need be, apologize to readers from the state of Tennessee. I was born and raised in Tennessee, and still live in Tennessee today. I think instead of saying that the entire state currently pledges allegiance to [Forrest], you should rather have challenged Mr. Gore to defend his father's stance on the Civil Rights Amendment, and ask him to clarify the reasons his father was adamantly opposed to ending segregation."
     Good point, Mr. Hubbard.
     Adds Jeff Harwell of Taft, Tenn.: "You note that Al Gore has not spoken out against various memorials to Confederate Cavalry General Nathan Bedford Forrest in Mr. Gore's adopted home state of Tennessee (we real Tennessean know that he is about as native to our state as Hillary Clinton is to New York). But you forgot one of the most prominent memorials to the general — a large bust of him that occupies a niche on the legislative level of the State Capitol Building, along with other giants of Tennessee history.
     "And this after Al Gore tried to give George Bush grief in 2000 over a Confederate flag in a state [South Carolina] that was home to neither candidate."
     A point made by you and several others, Mr. Harwell.
     Turning to readers outside of Tennessee: "Come on. You can do better than cite General Forrest," writes B. Ray Holland of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. "This year when Democrats meet at their [Thomas] Jefferson Day dinners to commiserate their decline into the minority party, they should begin by denouncing the man they claim founded their party and condemn him for slavery (but not for acts of adultery with his slaves, of course, since Democrats do not consider that a moral defect)."
     Point taken, Mr. Holland.
     And speaking of Southern gentlemen named "Forrest," B.A. Rucker of Virginia observes: "Every time I hear Al 'Forrest' Gore speak, I picture Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump saying, 'Stupid is as stupid does.'"
     
     American history
     Another column item of yesterday that generated considerable response was the renaming of Northern Virginia's historic "Sully Plantation" to "Sully Historic Site."
     "You remind me of an incident as I drove past Sully Plantation with some guests from Massachusetts visiting me in The Plains, Va., in 1995," writes Jesse Merrell. "The woman's daughter saw the sign and asked: 'What's a plantation?' Rather than give a lengthy explanation to an offhand query by a 15-year-old, I said simply: 'It's a big farm.'
     "'Yeah!' sneered her mother, her voice dripping with venomous, puritanical sarcasm. 'Where they had slaves!'
     "I felt like saying: 'Yes, hauled here on Massachusetts slave ships,' pointing out that the hideous thumbscrews and degrading chains sprang, not from Southern plantations, but Northern slave ships, such as the first slave ship built in America, in 1636 — the year Harvard was founded to 'train ministers of the Gospel' — and launched from Marblehead, Mass.
     "It occurred to me to remind her that the first law in America legalizing slavery was passed, not in the evil South, but in enlightened Massachusetts, on Dec. 10, 1641, with the rather curious title of 'Body of Liberties.' I could have also told her that Massachusetts passed the first fugitive slave law in America, and that she enslaved her captives in the Pequot Indian War.
     "I didn't say any of this, held back by my awful Southern manners, which also kept me from inquiring into the Salem Witch Trials, where 19 people were hanged in 1692, and one 80-year-old man (churchgoer Giles Corey) was crushed to death with heavy stones during bloodthirsty hysteria, when Massachusetts became the first and only state in America to hang 'witches,' and the last in Christendom to halt the medieval atrocity."

John McCaslin, a nationally syndicated columnist, can be reached at 202/636-3284 or by e-mail: jmccaslin@washingtontimes.com.