Posted on 07/10/2008 4:40:40 PM PDT by slickeroo
The propaganda sheet of Cuba's Stalinist regime has almost outdone the mainstream international media in vilifying Jesse Helms. It's a close-run thing. You be the judge:
“To many around the world,” recently wrote London's Financial Times,“he was little less than a monster.”
"Few senators in the modern era have done more to resist the tide of progress," concluded the New York Times when Helms retired in 2003.
"He fought for the values of the old confederacy. He resisted the new South. He resisted the opportunity to fight for a more perfect union," said Rev. Jesse Jackson (who bellowed “Viva Fidel!-Viva Che!” while arm in arm with Castro in Havana in 1984.
“It is hard even now to think of him with charity,” runs the obituary in the UK Guardian. Helms was “a baleful influence” with a “malign impact” on American foreign policy. “He caused an international furore by joining forces with Congressman Dan Burton of Indiana to push through the Helms-Burton Act, extending American jurisdiction to international companies trading with Cuba.”
“There are men in the world who become paradigms of disgrace to the human race,” wrote a Castro-court eunuch in Cuba's official paper, Granma, this past Monday.“A titan of intolerance!” continues the scribbling eunuch in this propaganda organ for a regime that jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin's and executed more in its first three years in power than Hitler's murdered in its first six.
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Revisionist historians will no doubt print their lies, but God and those who lived when he was around will know the truth.
Ahh...win the Liberals get this angry in print, you know Helms had them foaming at the mouth in private....
A tip o’ the jar to you Senator Helms, gone but not forgotten, and still driving the MSM to the edge of grand mal seizures..
And what will this race bating, class pimp, jack ass who kisses the asses of WHITE DIMOCRATS in Sodom on the Potomac SAY AND DO when the old KKK grand wizard Robert Byrd kicks the bucket????? How are you going to smooze that one over Jessie, you stupid jack ass.
I can imagine no greater endorsement.
Death to the liberal media.
““A titan of intolerance!””
Whenever I see the word “intolerance,” I pretty much write the speaker off as mentally-challenged and pushing a point way too far in the name of agenda. It’s one of those words that no longer has any meaning outside of an attempt to disparage someone through villification.
It’s also pretty similar to “progressive,” in that it implies a lot more than it should actually mean.
The media (even worldwide) is beginning to appear mentally unbalanced.
A badge of honor and truth. We salute you sir! Enjoy Heaven!
Jesse Jackson quotes are oddly devalued of late...
Senator Helms was a great right wing conservative who fought the lefties tooth and nail.
May he R.I.P.
I admire your restraint and subdued use of language. ;)
Well, he must have done something right to be hated. Well done, my good and faithful servant.
The Jesse Helms You Should Remember
Thursday July 10, 09:25:36 GMT-0700 2008 · by Tailgunner Joe · 7 replies · 630+ views
washingtonpost.com ^ | July 7, 2008 | Marc Thiessen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043479/posts
I take off my hat to you, good Senator, may you rest in peace knowing you did all you could to stem the tide of idiocy in this nation as it turns its back on its founding principles of self determination and rugged individualism and looks towards the bleak future of gunpoint enforced altruism, where work is punished and sloth rewarded, where success is measured in how much of a victim you are and not for your personal accomplishments.
My main problem with Helms was that he was a career senator. Yes, I hold that against anyone, as that wasn’t the plan.
Being vilified by the likes of Jesse (I want to cut his nuts off) Jackson is a compliment I’m sure Helms is relishing in the afterlife.
You are known by your enemies. Jesse can take comfort that his enemies are also enemies of freedom. RIP Jesse.
” My main problem with Helms was that he was a career senator”. I JUST WISH WE HAD 50 CAREER SENATORS JUST LIKE HIM. We wouldn’t be in the shape we’re in right now.
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