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Posted on 07/08/2003 6:08:03 PM PDT by pabianice
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Link didn't help me much, though. Good luck.
Below, a rundown of the Wednesday non-identifying of Maddox's party, starting with ABC, CNN, FNC and NBC in the morning (CBS's Early Show didn't mention it, the MRC's Brian Boyd informed me), and then the evening reports on ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC and NBC.and this about Gov. Maddox:
He's the last Democrat until Al Gore to hate the news media.
Lester fought for what he believed, and refused to back down. He believed in the freedom of association, and he also changed with the times, appointing numerous blacks to state postions. He rode a bicycle backwards, and refused to have an official oil-painting made to hang in the Capitol - too expensive.
Thanks. ;-)
Simple. Anytime a conservative, Republican etc makes any remark (remember Trent Lott & the fiasco about Strom Thurmond's presidential aspirations?) the media mentions their political party a dozen times in the same story, especially in the opening sentence. But If a dim, liberal etc makes the same/similar comment the media simply omits the party, or buries it in the last paragraph.
Hildabeast allegedly called x42's former campaign manager a "a (bleeping) Jew bastard." Was it shouted far and wide by the media? Jesse Jackson referred to Jews as "Hymies" and New York as "Hymie-town." It was glossed over by almost every news outlet. Robert Byrd used the "n" word in an interview, and was defended by dims and the media. Al Sharpton falsely accused Steven Pagones of raping Tawana Brawley, falsely I might add, and was sucessfully sued for slander by Pagones. Sharpton never apologized nor did he pay (all assets transferred/in wife's name). Donna Brazile (Gore's campaign manager) called the Republican Party the party of the "white boys."
XPOTUS Clinton praised Sen. J. W. Fulbright (pro-communist, internationalist), and gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Clinton called Fulbright 'a visionary humanitarian, a steadfast supporter of the values of education.' Fulbright once said, '[t]he President is hobbled ... by the restrictions of power imposed on him by a constitutional system designed for an 18th century agrarian society far removed from the centers of world power.' No wonder Clinton admired him.
And of course, the media looked the other way when Sen. Patty Murray praised Osama bin Laden: "He's been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."
If a conservative had done any of the above, we'd still be hearing about it.
First, I like your home page ;o)
Secondly, Gov. Maddox had many supporters in the state. I remember him riding his bycycle backward in the Thomasville Rose Parade. He would stop frequently to shake hands with those wishing to do so. Many were black. It was a time when Democrats were vastly different that the Dims of today.
Yes, the problem I have with the article above is that it paints Gov. Maddox as a racist, when he doesn't seem to have been. In fact, in his time, he was the most "enlightened" governor the state had ever seen. I don't see the Media Research organization pointing out the bias in that direction, either.
It was a time when Democrats were vastly different that the Dims of today.
Which is one reason it's rather silly worrying about whether or not the media labels Maddox as a Democrat or not.
At that point in time, most Southern politicians were Democrats (and segregationists), including some who are Republicans today.
One of the things that the media won't mention is that not a single segrationist governor of **any** state was a Republican.They were all Democrats.
And because the media likes to cover for their fellow Lefists, the old racist Democrats are essentially banned from the news, or when mentioned, spoken about without bringing up their Party affiliation.
Which is why you didn't hear about what Lestor Maddox was up to until he died. It's also why the media won't tell you what Bull Conner is doing today (or even if he is still alive).
George Wallace only got covered by a single magazine after the Democrats made the full switch away from open segregationists, and that was by the short-lived George magazine founded by the now-deceased JFK, Jr.
And that was only one article.
Heck, you can't even get the media to report on the Tuskegee Experiment doctors who are still alive (all were Democrats).
In his case yes, as was the case of Wallace. Once they no longer fit the stereotype their media value was lost.
Lester Maddox (06/25)
Georgia's irrepressible segregationist, who defied the 1964 Civil Rights Act by chasing three black students from his restaurant with a gun. Given twenty days to desegregate, Maddox chose instead to close and sell the place, for which they made him Governor. Later, after his political career waned, he attempted to update his image by launching a nightclub comedy act with a black ex-con he had pardoned while in office. They were billed as "The Governor and the Dishwasher." We're not making this up.Denis Thatcher (06/26)
Close, but no cigar.Strom Thurmond (06/26)
Cigar.
Of course not. If you can get them to even conceed the point, the first thing they'll do is insist that even though they were Democrats, they were "Dixiecrats", as if that is a separate group. Then, they'll try to paint them as part of the GOP to continue the guilt-by-association motive.
Anything to distance themselves from their own soiled and sullied past. Simply pathetic.
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Do you happen to have a breakdown of party affiliations in the South before, say, 1968? ALL the Southern politicians were Democrats.
In fact, until about 10 years ago, if you didn't get a Democratic ticket in the rural south, you couldn't vote in local elections at the primary level, because no one was running on the GOP ticket.
However, as far as we know, Lester Maddox switched to GOP in later life, as many Southerners did. Since Georgia doesn't have voter registration by party, it would be hard to tell.
Thanks. You must be another dog lover! ;-)
Secondly, Gov. Maddox had many supporters in the state. I remember him riding his bycycle backward in the Thomasville Rose Parade. He would stop frequently to shake hands with those wishing to do so. Many were black.
I have fond memories of him, too. ;-)
It was a time when Democrats were vastly different that the Dims of today.
Yes, indeed. Democrats have changed, Republicans have changed, liberals have changed, conservatives have changed, the world has changed and I have changed.
But dogs haven't changed. ;-)
Balderdash.
Maddox died a Democrat.
That didn't keep him from voting for both Regan and Bush. Maddox was not a typical anything; he was very much his own man.
Maddox **railed** against his replacement in Georgia's Governor's chair: Jimmy Carter (hence his public statements that he voted for Reagan **against** Carter).But like Zell Miller, Maddox stayed in the Democratic Party to try to change it from within, rather than let the far-Leftists take it over.
But that still means that racist, specifically segregationist Maddox died a Democrat.
You'll find that no such segregationist governor was ever a Republican.
And we shouldn't let the Leftists re-write history by claiming that the Republicans are the ones with a history of being anti-Black while in office.
Pick a state, pick a governor; if he was a segregationist, then he was a Democrat.
And we shouldn't let the Leftists re-write history by claiming that the Republicans are the ones with a history of being anti-Black while in office.
Pick a state, pick a governor; if he was a segregationist, then he was a Democrat.
South Carolina - Strom Thurmond was a segregationist, he was governor, and then he was a Republican.
You're being disingenuous, however.
Yes, all the segregationists were Democrats AT THAT TIME. BUT, many of them switched to the Republican party after the Civil Rights Act, in protest.
You may not like it, but those are the facts.
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