Posted on 09/03/2004 7:31:59 AM PDT by kattracks
Democratic hysteria over Sen. Zell Miller's Wednesday night keynote address to the GOP convention continues to escalate, with Kerry defenders now trying to label him "a Klansman.""Zell Miller looks like a Klansman," media has-been Dick Cavett groused to radio host Don Imus on Friday. When Imus objected to the characterization, Cavett joked, "You didn't think I meant the Ku Klux Klan, did you?." He then added in the next breath, "You would cast him as that in a movie."
Cavett was apparently picking up a riff first road tested on Thursday by pro-Kerry Republican David Gergen, who complained that Miller was a "man of hate," just like his long ago boss, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox.
Of course, neither Cavett nor Gergen has ever had anything to say about the Senate's only genuine ex-Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd - apparently because he supports John Kerry.
Cavett, whose claim to sudden relevancy is based on the fact that he hosted a 1971 Vietnam debate between John Kerry and Swiftvet leader John O'Neill, could resist taking an ugly potshot at the man whose book, "Unfit for Command," has turned the presidential campaign on its ear.
Referring to the Swiftvet's appearance on his show, Cavett explained, "O'Neill had been groomed, entertained and fondled, for all I know, by Nixon and Haldeman."
Dick Cavett is a leftist piece of hate-America filth cut out of the Ed Asner mold.
Since Cavett opened the superficial attacks, I always thought little Dick Cavett looked like an effete peanut. His head has that weird indentation thing going on. When he is old and deeply wrinkled, he'll be a terrific Mr. Peanut gussied up in tails with a top-hat and cane.
In other words, he's a fag and a phony.
Gee, Dick. We didn't know you were such a close friend of Robert Byrd.
He is....that's why he votes Dimocrat!
Looks like Dick's been skipping his electroshock therapy appointments again...
And that's what a Klansman looks like.
...*Dick*.
They started playing that card on Wednesday afternoon hours before Miller even spoke. I heard at least pundits refer to him as a racist. David Gerkin tried it but Laura Ingrahm wasn't having it. She whooped him good.
We cannot forget that other Southern democrat, Fritz.
Yes, it's the same tired old story. A white southerner you disagree with is a Klansman. I suppose that's a clever characterization if your 6 years old. Otherwise it's just moronic, and anyone who makes such a comparison instantly loses *all* credibility.
I mean seriously, if this is the level Dick's brain is capable of working on, it's time to pack it in.
Feel the hate.
Laura was on FIRE on Hardball... God Bless her.
>"Zell Miller looks like a Klansman," media has-been Dick Cavett groused
Pitiful. We've got George Soros comparing Bush to Hitler, and now Cavett comparing Zell to Robert KKK Byrd.
Can't they come up with anything better?
Right, and what would Cavitt call the speech of the very Reverend Al Sharpton, (the moral compass of the demcratic party,) the sermon on the mount?
These liberal democratics can dish out all the filth they can and not call it anger, but classic down home, old-school, "tell it like it is" orator from the South is a Klansman.
nick
What does (Democrat) Robert Byrd look like, Dick?
"David Gergen...complained that Miller was a 'man of hate'"
Any complaints about Al Gore, Michael Moore, or Howard Dean, David?
The most acid hatred of all is reserved for apostates!
I think Cavett's from Nebraska.
Yeah, that's the way for Dems to get the Southern votes: Call 'em all Klansmen!
When the heathens have nowhere else to turn they play the race card, even if the circumstances are not even remotely connected to racial issues. There wasn't one thing in Zell Miller's speech that would have prompted this idiot comment.
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