Posted on 01/22/2005 12:56:17 AM PST by kattracks
On March 4, 2001, an interview with FOX News Sunday host Tony Snow was aired. In the interview Byrd was asked about race relations: "They are much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime," Byrd said. "I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us... I just think we talk so much about it that we help to create somewhat of an illusion. 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." Then 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."
The link above said that Byrd was a KKK recruiter.
One huge difference is that they would actually find something and not have to manufacture it.
Saying this about a democrat, especially bird brain Byrd, is like saying sic 'em to a mean dog.
The Dems thrive on such criticism.
Maybe Byrd just wanted to delay the vote because he was late for a cross burning.
How can one shame something that has no shame?
This topic should be discussed with JUAN WILLIAMS on Fox News Sunday. He wrote the book "Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary."
Here is a link to the book on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0812920287/102-8468846-8297736?v=glance&vi=reviews
And an excerpt from the book:
And yet a strong undercurrent of criticism of Marshall--he was unqualified, lazy, too liberal--continued. Marshall came under the most brutal attack from segregationists, who did not want an integrationist on the Court. President Johnson's political strategy to have Marshall quickly and easily confirmed was crumbling. And even Marshall's tough-mindedness, his amazing will to win, seemed to be overmatched.
Hearings for most Supreme Court nominees began within a week of the nomination. Byron White, President Kennedy's first candidate for the Court, had been nominated and confirmed within eight days. Abe Fortas, President Johnson's first, had to wait only fourteen days. Thurgood Marshall was different. It would be seventy-eight days before his name would come up for a vote of Senate confirmation.
In the two and a half months between the nomination and the vote on Marshall, his record as a lawyer, his writings, his drinking, the women he slept with, and his family came under the intense scrutiny of FBI and Senate investigations. Sen. Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, wrote to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, asking if there was information about Marshall's ties to Communists. Another senator focused on uncovering evidence that Marshall hated whites; other senators loaded up on detailed legal questions, hoping to reveal gaps in Marshall's knowledge of the law that would disqualify him for the high court.
Byrd: "One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family."
And then someday, Mr. Byrd, they will again put a white sheet over you --- this time, thank God, over your entire body!
Yep. His hood is on.
Good one.
This "what if" argument of comparison between Republicans & Democrats has borne no fruit up to this point. It is simply overlooked by the MSM and everyone else, apparently.
That doesn't make it untrue...just ineffective.
What the republicans really need is an avenue of communication DIRECTLY to the black (and other minority) communities that goes over the heads of the MSM.
I'm willing to bet that not one in ten black americans know that the senior, powerful democrat in the US Senate is the former grand kleagle of the KKK, and that he has opposed every civil rights initiative that ever came down the pike.
It's time to open a REAL media front in the minority community.
"...the gloves are off....his hood is on"
Brilliant! F'ing brilliant!!
And that's not an easy accomplishment nowadays...
Well they would be best advised to find their spine and take a stand
The voters of this country have stood by them, gave their support and gave the GOP the numbers needed up on the Hill.
That support won't continue if the GOP doesn't take a stand and fight back with the voters
I would say you are wrong. If you would drive through WV, you would find so many highways in his name, buildings, etc. In fact, Byrd brought so much pork in highway construction to the state, the state cannot afford to maintain them.
Unlike the Dims who are inflicted w/ P.E.S.T., the Republicans are "suffering" (or better yet, ENJOYING) a different kind of medical malady.
I've read in a few medical journals that, for some reason science has yet been able to explain, the sex life or Republican men has improved TREMENDOUSLY after Nov. 2, 2004. In some areas it has become so widespread that the scientists who noticed this have given it a new name, which they call P.E.S.E.:
Post Election Selection Erection
(Say THAT 3 times real fast!)
Maybe we should send that old Byrd some new bed sheets.
There's a rather humourous, albeit very one-sided, series of interviews between the guy who runs
www.celluloid-wisdom.com
and Robert Byrd's Grand Kleagle Hood
Here's a snippet from the first one:
me: "Okay, well, I won't take up any more of your time. ...Unless there's something you'd like to tell me...?"
hood:
me: "Because, y'know, I can't force you to open up..."
hood:
me: "...Can I just tell you, though, that you are the whitest piece of fabric I've ever seen! Christ, you're white as a Kerry dinner party, y'know?"
hood:
me: " -- like the guest list at a Barry Manilow concert, is how white you are. I mean, you are one white hood, hood."
It's time to change the sheets and end the lynchings.
Most democrats can't be embarrassed, they have no heart or
soul. We, in WV, are humiliated by Byrd. We are not
racists.
We have very few Blacks in WV - less than ten in my county.
To me, and everyone I know, they are just people like us.
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