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FLASBACK : Sen. Robert Byrd, ex-klansman
Townhall.com ^ | 3/7/2001 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/15/2005 3:47:35 PM PDT by llevrok

Flash back to 2001 article : The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act -- supported by a majority of those "mean-spirited" Republicans -- for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of "injecting racism" into the Senate hearings. Meanwhile, author Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed forces.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: 109th; byrd; malkin; ropes; sheets
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1 posted on 06/15/2005 3:47:35 PM PDT by llevrok
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To: llevrok

Sheets bump.


2 posted on 06/15/2005 3:49:49 PM PDT by TBP
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I would say former Klansman would be more appropriate than ex-Klansman.

I'm sure he is still a grand dragon at heart.
3 posted on 06/15/2005 3:53:07 PM PDT by stm
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So Bob 3K has never been really repentant about his earlier Klan involvement? Big surprise there.

*******Coming soon to a theatre near you, Sen. Robert Byrd starring in "Byrd in the Hood",
the story of a grandfatherly, Klansmen type and his whimsical misadventures in South Central. "A true buddy film, if ever there was one" says Roger Ebert.*******
4 posted on 06/15/2005 3:54:37 PM PDT by Das Outsider
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To: llevrok

I'd love to see sheets Byrd and ask him face to face if he had the balls to say that word to me.


5 posted on 06/15/2005 3:54:42 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: llevrok

Sheets should be in Gitmo with the rest of the terrorist.

He's a disgrace to mankind and shouldn't even be on American soil.


6 posted on 06/15/2005 3:54:51 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to Libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?")
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To: llevrok
If this ex-Klansman were a conservative Republican, he would never hear the end of his sordid past.

No doubt about that.

7 posted on 06/15/2005 3:55:35 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("The Klan is needed today as never before." - Robert Byrd, 1946)
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To: llevrok

By the way, thanks for the tagline, Sheets.


8 posted on 06/15/2005 3:56:04 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("The Klan is needed today as never before." - Robert Byrd, 1946)
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To: llevrok

Rush cracked me up today when he recounted the Newsmax article about the FR DC Chapter sit in at Byrd's office and their interview where Byrd's spokesman "didn't know" if Sheets participated in any lynchings or burned any crosses way back when. Too funny...


9 posted on 06/15/2005 4:01:28 PM PDT by eureka! (It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
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I wonder when Robert Byrd (KKK-WV) is going to disclose any lynching he may have been involved in during his KKK days.
When oh when is he going to apologize for his past Klan activities.
Will Robert C. Byrd (KKK-WV) resign from the Senate as an act of atonement for his past (and probably present) racist views.

Hmmmmmmmm. Guess not.
10 posted on 06/15/2005 4:02:22 PM PDT by Bar-Face
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To: T. Buzzard Trueblood

1946? Ol' Sheets must have been a strapping young buck of 50 when he said that!


11 posted on 06/15/2005 4:03:34 PM PDT by Das Outsider
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LOL! Actually, he was an able-bodied young man who could have easily served in the U.S. Armed Forces in the Second World War, had he been willing to condescend to serve alongside what he described as "race mongrels."

IMHO the old fraud was just plain scared.

12 posted on 06/15/2005 4:10:44 PM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("The Klan is needed today as never before." - Robert Byrd, 1946)
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To: Das Outsider

Sheets has probably said it many times since. That's just the time he said it publicly.


13 posted on 06/15/2005 4:11:38 PM PDT by South40 (Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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To: llevrok
A good freeper research project would be to look up the reported actions of the local klan during byrds membership.

It would be impossible to determine if he participated, but if it could be shown that it was likely that he was at a cross burning, or worse, it wouldn't help him any.

14 posted on 06/15/2005 4:21:36 PM PDT by narby (Ignorance is God’s gift to Kansas.)
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Hmm...I was free-associating, and the 1980 movie, "The Star Chamber," starring Michael Douglas and Hal Holbrook, popped into my mind. I wonder why?


15 posted on 06/15/2005 4:36:51 PM PDT by Salvey (ancest)
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To: llevrok

Sheethead Byrd, Ted Diver Kennedy


16 posted on 06/15/2005 4:40:12 PM PDT by ArtyFO
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To: Salvey

Speaking of movies, don't forget that Byrd callously played the role of a confederate general in the film "Gods and Generals". You would think an ex klansman wouldn't touch that role with a ten foot pole.


17 posted on 06/15/2005 4:42:32 PM PDT by Wristpin ( Varitek says to A-Rod: "We don't throw at .260 hitters.....")
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To: narby
I'd love to read the transcripts of his 14 hour filibuster back in 1963.
18 posted on 06/15/2005 4:44:55 PM PDT by llevrok (Semper Conservatatis)
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I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time

This pathetic icon of the Democratic Party can't open his mouth without announcing to the world that he is a dyed in the wool, unapologetic, confirmed racist. He is an embarrassment to every citizen of the country. Please, West Virginia, vote this throwback to the dark days of lynchings and 'white only' restrooms out of office. I am white and I'm ashamed.

19 posted on 06/15/2005 4:55:36 PM PDT by layman (Card Carrying Infidel)
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To: Wristpin

What's wrong with playing a Confederate general.

The Confederacy has nothing to do with racism whatsoever, and I thought that movie was one of the few good things Ted Turner has ever done. It actually gave a fair portrayal to the Southern side.





Also, for some reason, I don't think West Virginia is dumping this guy, if the reason is he's a racist.

If his views were really unpopular with the people in that state, he would have been taken down long ago. Thats something that has to be accepted.


20 posted on 06/15/2005 5:09:25 PM PDT by AzaleaCity5691 (If you want Siegelman to win a 2nd term, by all means, vote for Roy Moore in the primary)
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