Someone with better knowledge will correct me, but I thought Robert Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops, which is if I understand it correctly, on about the level of president of a union local, or chairman of a local lodge.
With a dem, there's no horror too great the MSM won't cover for it, IF it's one of their own. Kennedy killing, Kennedy rape, Clinton rape charges, Clinton sexual harassment, KKK membership, voter intimidation by black panthers, conservatives beat up by Union goons... the list is endless when it comes to their boys...They cover for 'em.
PASS OUT THE PASSES... dems ARE the MSM teacher's pets...
If you have doubt, contrast this with what Dan Rather was almost able to pull off - a lie - a fabrication about George Bush that the MSM ran with - why check it out if it trashes a Republican? Run with the story - quick - before it found to be a lie.
Has any paper EVER retracted a story that trashed a dem because the facts "weren't there"? No. Never. Check those facts one more time.... If it's something that trashes dems, they are ever soooooooo careful. Has there ever been a story that ran that trashed Republicans that had to be retracted because the story was a lie? YES. Many.
They - the MSM - ARE the haters. Eff the Washington Post. Eff the New York Times.
The fact that a Republican had signed up as a member of the KKK at age 18, and only attended one meeting, would have been enough for the Dems and the State Controlled Media to use to destroy him. Yet, we have Dems, who have used racism charges against Republicans for decades, defending an actual segregationist in the Dem Party, and saying he did what he had to do to get elected.
My point is that the Dems and our national "journalists" will tell lies big enough to choke any good mule, but apparently not big enough to choke that bunch of Jackasses.