Rush played this clip of "Sheets Byrd" today. Pass it around.

Rhyner.com ^ | 9/16/2009 | pansgold

[pansgold]

A proud democrat around March 28, 1968. Senator Byrd said Dr. King ran like a "scared rabbit".

Sheets Byrd

[ETL]

Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[4]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0

[llevrok]

Oh, now. He’s a sick and tired old man who served his country well. Like Ted Kennedy. (sarc).

[McGruff]

And that other Golden Oldie Flashback Video: Carter referred to Obama as 'this black boy' (video at link)

[IbJensen]

A byrd sheets.

[Mr. K]

DEMOCRAT Senator Robert Byrd

Exactly how old was he when he quit the klan??? He looks at least 65 in this photo- a long way from 'youthful indescretion" and so he was in since age 24... to ???? Was h e a senator while still in the Klan?

[buccaneer81]

Photoshopped.

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Tag

[SkyPilot]

Did someone say rabbit?

[ETL]

Photoshopped.

That's precisely why I have a problem with photoshop images. Although many are funny as hell, they undermine the real stuff. And there's certainly no shortage of legitimate incriminating evidence against the commie-left demonRats.

[BallyBill]

A 40+ year old clip? I thought Rush was sort of reaching a bit with that. I hated girls 40 years ago! They had cooties. Now, I have my own daughters and even a gran daughter..

[Swing_Thought]

There’s a difference. Forty years ago you were a kid. Forty years ago, Robert Byrd was in his 50’s.

One of you was old enough to know right from wrong.

[lonevoice]

There’s a difference. Forty years ago you were a kid. Forty years ago, Robert Byrd was in his 50’s.

One of you was old enough to know right from wrong.

And one of you had a true change of heart, and the other only pretended to change to maintain his political career. See previous post about Sheets Byrd using the term "white nigger" twice on national television just 8 years ago. He was once a member of the KKK, no longer, but he's still a racist today and it's hard for him to conceal it.

[mojitojoe]

“Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]”

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That’s pretty damn funny. Thinking of Byrd saying that is humorous. He looks like he would have been a KKK member. Much of my family father’s side of the family is from Alabama. I know many of them were Klan members back in those days. However, I never saw any of them be anything but kind to a black person. Not once.
I never really understood it. Once we went to Gasparilla in Tampa and my uncle was with the Shriners. He would take kids with cerebral palsy, etc, black, white, whatever and they had front row seats and the shriners did this for them. I thought that was really nice. However, when we got in the car to leave, I’ll be damned if he hadn’t left a bunch of KKK literature in there. In Tampa FL. WTF?

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It sickens me how some people base their hatred on things like race alone (as opposed to the radical anti-American politics of many in the black leadership). I especially feel bad for the 10s of thousands of honorable black men and women who are proudly serving in our military.