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Pelosi Defends Ex-Klansman's Assault on Condi
NewsMax.com ^ | 1/20/05 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 01/20/2005 9:06:44 AM PST by kattracks

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi found herself on the defensive Thursday morning over the decision by Senate Democrats to put former Ku Klux Klansman, Sen. Robert Byrd, in charge of efforts to derail the confirmation of Secretary of State-nominee Condoleezza Rice.

"I don't think that whatever Sen. Byrd is doing has anything to do with his sad past," Pelosi told WWRL radio hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. Instead, said the San Francisco Democrat, the one-time Grand Kleagel was acting out of concern that the advise and consent role of the Senate in presidential appointments was being overlooked.

In a move that was seen by many as an insult to the first black woman ever appointed Secretary of State, Sen. Byrd announced his decision to hold up her confirmation late Wednesday, saying it needed more debate before the full Senate.

Rep. Pelosi insisted that Byrd's extraordinary move had nothing to do with his long history of public racism, but was instead a reflection of his opposition to the Iraq war.

"They're confirming a Secretary of State in a time of war. [Byrd's] views on the war and his opposition to it are well known," she said.

Still, Byrd's "sad history," as Pelosi described it, makes him a particularly bad choice to lead the assault on Rice.

As recently as 2001, the West Virginia Democrat was forced to apologize after blurting out during a nationally televised interview, "There are white n****rs, I've seen a lot of white n****rs in my time. I'm going to use that word."

In 1972, Byrd pushed to have the Senate's main office building named after Dixiecrat Sen. Richard Russell - a leading opponent of anti-lynching legislation who Byrd called "my mentor."

Byrd filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act for 14 straight hours.

Three years after he said he'd left his white-sheeted brethren behind, he wrote to Georgia's Grand Imperial Wizard urging: "The Klan is needed today as never before."

Sen. Byrd was also a fierce opponent of desegregating the military, complaining in one letter ."I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."



TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: byrd; condirice; exhaltedwizardbyrd; flamingcrossbyrd; grandclaxonbyrd; grandcyclopsbyrd; partyofbigotry; pelosi; sheetsbyrd
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To: MeekOneGOP

Fertile ground here for some of your Dirty Byrd graphic arts!:)


41 posted on 01/20/2005 10:18:26 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( The MSM has been a weapon of mass disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: kattracks

42 posted on 01/20/2005 10:20:42 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( The MSM has been a weapon of mass disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: kattracks
" Sen. Byrd was also a fierce opponent of desegregating the military, complaining in one letter ."I should rather die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds." "

Never forget why is this man in the United States Senate ...

Because he is a Democrat ...

43 posted on 01/20/2005 10:22:06 AM PST by af_vet_1981
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To: kattracks
Nancy is SMOKIN... but whatever shes smoking has made her ignert...
GOOD>>>..
44 posted on 01/20/2005 10:23:20 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: kattracks

Pelosi defends the DemoKKKrat, Byrd.


45 posted on 01/20/2005 10:23:35 AM PST by syriacus (Title as Queen of the BOXER SNORTS goes to Sen. Babs for her performance on 1/19/2005)
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To: kattracks

DEmocrats NEVER say anything about their colleagues. EXcept folks like Zell Miller who leave congress.

Republicans eat their own...astonishing.


46 posted on 01/20/2005 10:25:21 AM PST by Burlem
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To: kattracks; blam; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; ValerieUSA
Ping!
47 posted on 01/20/2005 10:26:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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To: jwpjr
It will be a cold day in hell before I believe that anything other than a insult was intended by putting this man in charge of anything having to do with the career path of a minority!

This taken together with Biden's racist parody in the confirmation hearings have me convinced that the democrats are trying to bait the republicans into going off message; get into race dialog which they feel they have a stereotypical advantage. In any case they are trying to disrupt our momentum, create a distraction. Let's not rise to the bait.

48 posted on 01/20/2005 10:26:50 AM PST by oldbrowser (You lost the election...........get over it)
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To: TheDon

Oh, no. They appreciate all races. As long as they stay on the plantation.


49 posted on 01/20/2005 10:27:11 AM PST by griswold3
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To: Grampa Dave
Thanks, Grampa. Surprised it's not already here.


From the article:

In a move that was seen by many as an insult to the first black woman ever appointed Secretary of State, Sen. Byrd announced his decision to hold up her confirmation late Wednesday, saying it needed more debate before the full Senate.

Rep. Pelosi insisted that Byrd's extraordinary move had nothing to do with his long history of public racism, but was instead a reflection of his opposition to the Iraq war.

"They're confirming a Secretary of State in a time of war. [Byrd's] views on the war and his opposition to it are well known," she said.



Former KKK Clansman,
Senator Robert Byrd……

Byrd said in part, "I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, `Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white ni**ers. I've seen a lot of white ni**ers in my time. I'm going to use that word."

See this Michelle Malkin article about Robert Byrd from March 7, 2001


50 posted on 01/20/2005 10:36:09 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: kattracks
Site Meter
Pelosi, Byrd, Kennedy - the definition of all that is wrong with America...
51 posted on 01/20/2005 10:46:06 AM PST by KMC1
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To: MeekOneGOP

Great!

Just have it ready to use as Free Republic educates the world re the racism of Dirty Byrd, Boxer, Pelosi Galore and other limo rat racists.


52 posted on 01/20/2005 11:05:10 AM PST by Grampa Dave ( The MSM has been a weapon of mass disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: Grampa Dave
It's always ready in my Word file, just a copy/paste away. :^D

53 posted on 01/20/2005 11:41:59 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Looks like they were serious when they said the Democrats were going to get back to the foundation of their party and communicate it better.


Looks like they found it, The Racism of the Democrats of the 50s and 60s. Who better to lead them than the KKK man himself Robert Byrd.

Quick someone get a mic infront of Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson-Lee.


54 posted on 01/20/2005 11:49:04 AM PST by Area51
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To: kattracks

At least he isn't going to lynch her.


55 posted on 01/20/2005 11:55:34 AM PST by Johnnyboy2000 (Give it all up tommorrow to live in world without crime, and go back tothe circuit riding motocross)
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To: kattracks
... the West Virginia Democrat was forced to apologize ...

Hmmm. For some reason, I don't remember that apology.
56 posted on 01/20/2005 12:03:22 PM PST by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Sacajaweau

is Byrd related to Harry F Byrd who received 15 electoral votes in 1960?


57 posted on 01/20/2005 12:04:20 PM PST by William of Orange (This tagline brought to you by John Kerry and the Kool-Aid Kollective...)
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To: William of Orange

I'd guess all the Byrds of Virginia are related going back to Colonial times.


58 posted on 01/20/2005 12:07:31 PM PST by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: Always Right
Byrd could probably show up in full KKK costume to Condi's hearing, and little would be said.

Yes and he could even burn a cross on the Senate floor, yet Boxer & the Rice-a-Roni Liberal Pelosi would still applaud him.

59 posted on 01/20/2005 12:33:52 PM PST by stratman1969 (Ashamed Barbara Boxer represents my state)
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To: kattracks
We can thank Carl Rove for his role in Gerry Parsky's appointment to head the California GOP, and thus its subsequent failure to support Bill Jones, the Republican Candidate for Senate against Barbara Boxer last year.
60 posted on 01/20/2005 12:43:28 PM PST by Carry_Okie (There are people in power who are truly evil.)
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