[Libloather]

Make a note - left-wang Big Media gives the racist Hollings a major pass...

[FreedomCalls]

Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings ought to go back to heading the South Carolina regional chapter of the Ku Klux Klan or whatever it was he did before being elected Senator.

[L.N. Smithee]

Make a note - left-wang Big Media gives the racist Hollings a major pass...

I don't know that Hollings is a racist, but Mike Wallace sure went out of his way to avoid the fact that it was Hollings as the Democratic governor of South Carolina who put the Confederate battle flag atop the Capitol building. That is not necessarily in itself a racist act, but in the late nineties, the MSM joined the Democrats in blaming the GOP for its continued existence there and the silly boycotts of the Palmetto State that liberal black groups began.

And who would have noticed that Hollings was going if 60 Minutes hadn't decided to pick what's left of his brain? If they wanted to interview a retiring Southern Democrat who had something to say, they could have asked Zell Miller. And Zell Miller had a book out, too! Haven't the 60 Minutes guys been scarfing up and puking out the authors of every other political book?

Oh, yeah, I almost forgot...at Viacom/CBS News, they only highlight anti-Bush books...and they especially plug away at the Viacom/Simon & Shuster ones.

[SuziQ]

"Papa Bush said, 'Never lead American troops into an urban guerrilla warfare and bog down in a quagmire and turn the Arab world against us,'" says Hollings.

I don't remember GHW Bush saying anything of the sort. We didn't go into Baghdad because that was not the UN decision. The decision was to kick Sadaam out of Kuwait, and keep him from coming back.

Hollings is a cantakerous old coot!

[Moose4]

Hollings won his first campaign at 26 for a seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives. And there, surprisingly, he helped pass an anti-lynching law and became the state's youngest governor at 36. He managed the peaceful integration of Clemson University back when other Southern governors were fighting to keep their universities all-white.

And signed the bill that put the Confederate Battle Flag on top of the State House for thirty-eight years. The anti-Southern forces like the NAACP never bothered to mention THAT little detail when trying to pin racism on the Republicans.

Oh yeah...and considering that Senator Leghorn is bought and paid for by the entertainment media cartel (the RIAA, MPAA, Disney, etc.) and was one of the worst in the Senate about depriving people of their right to use media that they bought and paid for, for him to rail about special interests is especially rich.

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[KC_Conspirator]

I watched this last night and Wallace gava Hollings a 100% pass and puff ball piece. You think for one moment that Senator Lott would get away with anything like that interview last night? Sheesh. They did not ask one tough question.

[JesseHousman]

Hollings should have been sent back to his job as a chicken plucker long, long ago.