I once held some anti Israel views but I didn't join the klan or support terrorists.
" I didn't leave the Klan, the Klan left me."
-Sheets Byrd
Robert KKK Byrd
"I only killed because I saw others killing"
Ted Bundy
Piece of sheet.
Byrd was raised in a tradtional Baptist home, or so he intimated. I find it surprising that he would be baptized so late in life. Most families and homes of this sort manage to get their children baptised at least before their teens.
It's a good thing he doesn't listen to rap music. Beyond using the "N-Word," he'd be talking about bitches and ho's and killin' 5-0's.
Far be it from me to judge any man's final destination, but IMO, Senator Byrd needs to study that Bible much more carefully...and then actually do what it says.
"By their fruit ye shall know them..."
I absolutely believe that in January 2007, Senator Byrd will join Tom Daschle on the ash heap of history...
I heard Byrd live on a cable show about 1998 using the "white n-----er" word. I was truly shocked. Even more shocked that it was ignored by the MSM.
real question....Where was Byrd during World War II? (other than busy targeting black Americans)
"whose chief accomplishment was blocking the passage of anti-lynching legislation in the 1930's and 40's."
This is not a fair assessment of Russell.
He was a Senate powerhouse, incredibly hard-working and he had too many legislative achievements to count. Not all of them were good, but many of them were. He was a staunch anti-communist and a defender of the Constitution. For better or for worse, he helped expose some of MacArthur's fallacious thinking about Asia which sort of deflected his hero status and may have avoided a huge constitutional crisis after his "old soldiers never die" speech. At any rate, this is not fair to Russell. It's even more of an exaggeration than it is to say that the South only fought to keep the slaves in their place. That is part of the record for sure, but it is not the only aspect of the record which is relevant.
Meanwhile, permit me to share an email message recently received of a WV Republican activist:
We know Byrd is a racist and a buffoon, but did you also know he is an abortion supporter? In the many years since he has brought home the bacon to WV, he has been silently voting to continue murdering unborn children. This is a bit personal to me because I am adopted. Thank God Robert Byrd wasn't in charge of my right to life in 1965!
Here are Byrd's votes:
1) Byrd Voted Against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act on 3/25/2004
2) Byrd Voted Yes to continue allowing abortion in military facilities on 5/22/2003
3) Byrd Agreed to a Harkin amendment to endorse Roe vs Wade on 3/12/2003
4) Byrd Vote against a ban on abortions in military facilities on 6/20/2000
5) Byrd voted for Clinton's unrestricted funding for "population assistance" on 2/25/1997
Please share this with your Democratic friends who are good people, loyal voters BUT who are pro-life. Do they really want Byrd to continue representing them in the Senate only to continue voting against the rights of unborn children to life?
I don't mind cutting him some slack on this one. After all, we do make mistakes. I'm just wondering why he won't cut others slack...
When he's back home does he still see his old Klan buddies, or did he ever bother to turn their names in to the FBI?
To be fair, he did a better job of being a fake black than John Kerry.
Someone should photoshop Robert Byrd onto the "Undercover Brother" movie poster.
The votes on Clarence Thomas and Thurgood Marshall - they were after 1946, weren't they?
What a crock. OK, Byrd left the Klan in 1946. In 1964 he fillibustered the Civil Rights Act for fourteen straight hours. I wonder if Colmes asked him about that...
Fox news should always introduce this guy with "Former member and leader of the KKK, democrat Robert Byrd"
I loved Byrd's hypocritical and deceitful remarks in this interview. First Byrd claimed cutting off debate on the judge nominations would constitute a violation of free speech. I don't see anyone on the floor filibustering through prolonged speech. Frankly they should be forced to. Byrd wouldn't last 2 hours before they were wheeling him out on a stretcher. So since no one is doing a floor speech filibuster, where is free speech being violated?
Also, Byrd while majority leader used Senate rule changes to cut off filibusters, so it is entirely hypocritical of this senile coot to now be so indignant over the possibility the same might happen to them.
Also, Byrd made the ludicrous statement that we attacked Iraq "without provokation." Saddam spent 12 years violating his 1991 UN Ceasefire accords he had just 50 days to fulfill which allowed him to keep power. So 51 days after the March 1991 ceasefire since he had no disarmed nor proven he had and instead spent that time murdering Shiites and Kurds, the war was on again. Further, Saddam trained at least one of the 1993 WTC bombing terrorists, the only one to escape US justice. He ended up back in Iraq on Saddam's payroll and with govt. paid housing in Tikrit. And of course we know Saddam worked with Al Qaeda on other things too. Finally, Saddam regularly shot at US pilots patrolling the no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq. Is that enough provokation for you there Byrd-brain, or do you want to end your loathsome career as a spokesman and shill for Saddam Hussein. Time to go quietly into the rest home jerk.
Also note that Robert Byrd is the only senator to have voted against both black Supreme Court nominees.