Posted on 05/19/2005 6:54:15 AM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
Historical perspective
The filibuster has been used historically by the minority party, which can't win with a vote count. Democrats have opposed the filibuster before — in the 1960s, they accused Republicans of using it to block civil rights legislation.
"According to the Senate Historical Office, the record for the longest individual speech is held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. To keep the floor, he read some of his wife's recipes and passages from novels out loud."
ABC News' Ed O'Keefe contributed to this report.
There were a few southern republicans also supporting the Civil rights filibuster. But, clearly, it was a regional fight, not a party confrontation. It was, in fact the Republican leader who mustered the final votes to overcome the filibuster.
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Civil_Rights_Filibuster_Ended.htm
I'm no defender of MSM, but I think this has gotten a little one-sidedly out of hand.
It's my understanding that the Pentagon had a copy of the story in hand for eleven days before it was published and said or did nothing to hold it up, much less stop it.
The Hidden Soros Agenda: Drugs, Money, the Media, and Political Power
By Cliff Kincaid | October 27, 2004
This is great. The deMSM is now bringing out every single "Republicans are evil" argument they "won" through historical manipulation of facts.
This is the new fight for correction and reexamination of all of the Dem distortions throughout history.
It took fights like these to make me examine the history I was taught, which gave me the opportunity to take off my blinders to the liberal bias.
Un-Freaking-believable. These liberal media whores have no shame.
Funny, there's no mention of all the southern democrats who were against the civil rights bills of the 50's and 60's. There's so much made of Thurmond and Goldwater but no mention of such democratic heroes as Sam Ervin, Russel Long, Herman Talmadge, J. William Fulbright, Albert Gore Sr., etc. Inconvenient, I guess.
Thanks for the e-mail address.
Lamestream media strikes again and I just sent them a message to get their facts straight and correct the record!!!
However, we'll probably only see the truth on Brit Hume's grapevine report.
I hate liberals!
Wonder if the dips are aware that Strom was a Democrat at the time?
I could be wrong but wasn't Strom Thurmond still a Democrat in 1964?
Posted on 05/18/2005 11:28:02 PM CDT by TheEaglehasLanded ,
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March 8, 1975 | Spencer Rich | Washington Post Archive ^
March 7,1975 Senate Votes Easier Cutoff Of Filibuster; Democrats change filibuster with 56 votes
And I thought Strom Thurmond was a Democrat at the time.
This "historical report" is Orwellian. Chilling.
Is the filibuster now similar to declaring "Shenanigans" like they do on South Park??? Maybe now there are South Park Democrats too!
The only comfort I can take from this crappy piece of propaganda is that it's evidence that the left is clearly on the ropes, and knows it.
Wow~!! What a great article on Soros. I'm sure you noticed the following paragraph from the article, but it fits right in with this thread so here it is:
** ""Journalists carefully conceal their own conflicts of interest. On the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) NOW With Bill Moyers program on January 9 of this year, Moyers interviewed Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity about the big money supporting the presidential candidates. But little time and attention was paid to how Soros was trying to buy the White House and pouring millions of dollars into groups such as MoveOn.org to bring this about. Moyers, former press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, failed to tell his viewers that he is on the board of Soros' Open Society Institute and that it has funneled $1.7 million into Lewis and his Center for Public Integrity. Moyers had conducted and aired an interview with Soros on September 12, 2003, where he declared, "The Republican Party has been captured by a bunch of extremists…" Soros was presented as an opponent of unchecked capitalism and a supporter of democracy and nation-building abroad."" **
Imagine that - Moyers says the Republican Party is captured by extremists. Where have we heard that word before?.. hmmmmmm... from Schumer yesterday over and over again on C-Span, while talking about EXTREMISTS controlling the Republican party. Soros is influencing even what those idiots say.
Moyers is ON ONE OF SOROS' BOARDS, The Open Society Institute!! Dang!!! Soros really is everywhere. Thanks to McCain, Soros makes good use of the 527's, too. This is insane, isn't it.
Thanks for the link!!
To their feeble left-wing minds, if it was used once (Abe Fortas) then it had historically been used. Unless, of course, they are referring to the multiple instances it was used against George W. Bush. If it was used last month, does that mean it has been used "historically?" We should ask an expert--Bill Clinton is good at parsing sentences.
In today's terms, John F Kennedy and his whole family were racists in the 50s and 60s. Where's the outrage?
He did? Why have I not heard that anyewhere else before?
Don't matter if it is true or not. What matters is if the Press believes it to be true, facts be damned.
How many black families were terrorized or had members lynched by Byrd and his buddies? Why isn't 'Nightline' going back in time to interview Klansmen that Byrd recruited and find out who they terrorized?
Mr. Koppell - think you can get around to that story before your show is cancelled?
Not to me. Even without the liberal bias, such background stuff is normally written by young college staffers who probably were not taught U.S. History and have had no prompting from the MSM to learn just who really opposed civil rights in the 1960s. At best, they think it was Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.
The skullful of mush who wrote the report has inhaled the liberal worldview just as the MSM has laid it out for him over the past 30 years.
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