Blunder in the Grass: Dick Gephardt's Whites-Only Picnic

NewsMax ^ | 1/12/04 | Limbacher

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Thank heaven for Fox News Channel. Other media are ignoring our exposé of Rep. Dick Gephardt's racist past, but FNC is raising the issue and has the White House wannabe stammering excuses.

Gephardt admitted Sunday to Fox News that it was a mistake to have attended a picnic in 1980 sponsored by a group with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and insisted he did not know its segregationist politics.

But wait, there's more. In 1971, St. Louis Alderman Gephardt, before he became a pro-abortion leftist with ambitions for national office, led the fight against busing to integrate government schools.

Gephardt also opposed a housing project for poor blacks in downtown St. Louis and other programs designed to help nonwhites, FNC noted.

"In 1980 Gephardt attended a picnic of the 'Metro-South Citizens Council' - an organization that described its agenda at the time as 'white rights.'

"The organization was initially called the 'White Citizens Council' and was created in the 1960s throughout the South to oppose integration. They were known to be anti-black and anti-Semitic but non-violent. Democrats and Republicans alike have been vilified over the years for attending events by the Citizens Council - which many say was formed by former members of the Ku Klux Klan," FNC reported.

Now I Discriminate Against Whitey!

Gephardt, even though he now brags of his support for institutionalized discrimination against white people and last year even issued the ludicrous and impossible threat to use executive orders to "overcome" any Supreme Court decisions against anti-white, anti-Oriental and anti-Arab racial quotas, insisted he was no bigot.

And what of the timing of the revelations of his racist past? "I suppose that's what happens in political campaigns," he hawed.

We have three questions:

Will Sen. Robert "KKK" Byrd endorse Gephardt?

Will the Democrat organization that calls itself National Association for the Advancement of Colored People attack Geppy with the sort of ugly ads it falsely used against President Bush?

How come other media are so uninterested in news about a Democrat that would be used to destroy a Republican's career?

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[vetvetdoug]

Gephardt was known throughout the eighties and nineties for attending Council Of Conservative Citizens' Meetings. The CCC has drifted to the further right since then but still since the left lam blasted Lott for this it is only fair to hit Gephardt for the same sin.

[truthandlife]

This will get no play in the mainstream media unless one of the Dem candidates picks up the ball and runs with it.

[o_zarkman44]

Perhaps a few "supporters" with Confederate Flags at one of his rallys would do the trick? Hey Dickie, we appreciate your support!! Howard Dean wouldn't come to our picnic!

[GreenHornet]

How come other media are so uninterested in news about a Democrat that would be used to destroy a Republican's career?

So true. Remember during the 2000 campaign how we kept hearing about G.W. Bush's visit to Bob Jones University? The media tried their best to manufacture some sort of racially charged sandal out of that one.