Dingell: Protesters Remind Me of KKK

Weekly Standard ^ | 8/11/09 | John McCormack

[pissant]

John Dingell (D-Mich) on MSNBC:

Well, the last time I had to confront something like this was when I voted for the civil rights bill and my opponent voted against it. At that time, we had a lot of Ku Klux Klan folks and white supremacists and folks in white sheets and other things running around causing trouble.

Note to Think Progress: You're supposed to blog about things that will hurt Republicans, not Democrats. George Soros is going to be very very angry at you.

[pissant]

Dingell-berry must have mistaken the a protester for Sheets Byrd.

[bareford101]

if we protestors remind him of the Klan, wonder what the BLACK Panthers and ACORN thugs remind him of? his grandmother?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Alzheimers can do this to a person. Dingell should go see a doctor.

[angkor]

Another senile old coot on Capitol Hill who doesn’t know when it’s time to leave.

[machogirl]

would that be the bill that algore’s daddy voted against?

[ExTexasRedhead]

This fool needs to be sent home; voted out!!!

[Venturer]

Playing that funky race card, boy is that thing moth eaten and weather worn.

Just throw the racist label out there and all the white folks get scared and shut up.

It aint working any more Dingle-berry. The threat of being called a racist is not near as horrifying as this Health Care Bill getting passed.

[Charles Martel]

This is just more evidence that ordinary white people in this country have been too passive, too distracted, and too long absent from vocal debate with these clowns. Well, no more.

[Maelstorm]

Let them keep it up. Make it all about race.

[ari-freedom]

“Alzheimers can do this to a person. Dingell should go see a doctor.”

not under obamacare...he would be ‘counseled’ to pick less costly measures for the good of the State.

[Dallas59]

LOL @ MSNBC.....

[ETL]

Dingell-berry must have mistaken the a protester for Sheets Byrd.

Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)

Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.

The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.

The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. 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."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[4]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan

YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0

[sneakers]

The dims are sticking their foot in their mouths every time they speak! Let them bury themselves! Their getting themselves in deeper and deeper!

[nufsed]

Nice photo of Sheets.

[Always Right]

[Richard Kimball]

Yeah, and Dingell reminds me of a Dingle.

[randita]

I was wondering when they would liken the town hall attendees to people like George Wallace and others who opposed Civil Rights legislation. I need wonder no more. The subject has been broached. Frankly, I’m surprised it took this long.

[jveritas]

The Left has gone insane. Never before in the history of our Republic that a President and his party have declared war on regular citizens because these citizens do not agree with their domestic agenda.

[pissant]

No Mo Bro!

[pissant]

Nixon looks like a relaxed surfer bum compared to these jumpy crapweasels.