Posted on 08/30/2013 9:19:54 AM PDT by Nachum
In a stunning historical error, Los Angeles Times reporters Kathleen Hennessey, Richard Simon, Alexei Koseff reported that "Democrats led the passage of civil rights legislation that marchers pushed for in 1963."
In fact, Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, filibustered the bill in an attempt to kill the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) saved the landmark civil rights law from defeat by galvanizing Senate Republicans for a cloture vote to stop the Democrat-led filibuster
On June 9, 1964, the night before the historic cloture vote, the 68-year-old Republican stayed up late into the night typing a speech on twelve sheets of Senate stationery. The next day, Senator Everett Dirksen delivered his oration on the floor of the U.S. Senate just minutes before the final vote. The final tally: 71 to 29, with 27 of the 33 Republicans voting to defeat the Democrat-led filibuster.
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Was Abraham Lincoln a Democrat now, too? The three most racist presidents were all Democrats: Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama.
Revisionism is too soft a term for the lies they foist on an ignorant (and indolent) public...
FROM ANN COULTER:
White Liberals Tell Black Lies About Civil Rights
EXCERPT:
99 members of Congress signed the “Southern Manifesto” denouncing the court’s ruling in Brown vs Board of Education. Two were Republicans. Ninety-seven were Democrats.
As president, Eisenhower pushed through the 1957 Civil Rights Act and the 1960 Civil Rights Act. He established the Civil Rights Commission. It was Eisenhower, not Truman, who fully desegregated the military.
Meanwhile, the Brown decision was being openly defied by the Democratic governor of Arkansas (and Bill Clinton pal), Orval Faubus, who refused to admit black students to Little Rock Central High School.
Liberals act as if Eisenhower’s sending federal troops to Little Rock was like Nixon going to China. No, it was like Nixon going to California.
Only someone who knows no history could proclaim, as Tanenhaus did, that the 1957 act “wasn’t great, it wasn’t what LBJ gave us, but it was something.”
If Eisenhower’s 1957 civil rights bill was weak, it was because of one man: Lyndon B. Johnson. As Robert Caro explains in his book, “Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” it was LBJ who stripped the bill of its enforcement provisions. Even after that, the bill was still opposed by 18 senators — all of them Democrats.
To the easily astounded Chris Matthews, Tanenhaus breathlessly remarked, “Not one Republican voted against that bill!” — as if the 1957 Civil Right Act was a Democratic idea and they were delighted to get any Republican support at all.
Imagine a modern German historian saying: “Remember — it wasn’t just Germans who opposed the Holocaust. The English and Americans did too!” Such a historian would be beaten bloody, quite rightly so.
The 1957 bill was sent to Congress by Eisenhower, passed with the intervention of Vice President Richard Nixon, and opposed exclusively by Democrats. Not “Southern Democrats,” not “conservative Democrats,” but Democrats, such as Wayne Morse of Oregon, Warren Magnuson of Washington, James Murray of Montana, Mike Mansfield of Montana and Joseph O’Mahoney of Wyoming.
With absolutely no evidence (because there is none), Tanenhaus then asserted that Republicans decided “they were not going to be pro-civil rights. ... They were going to side with the Southern oppressors.” Cretin Matthews seconded this gibberish by saying Nixon was “playing the Southern Strategy electorally with Strom Thurmond and those boys.”
Who exactly does Matthews imagine he means by “Strom Thurmond and those boys”? Every single segregationist in the Senate was a Democrat. Only one of them ever became a Republican: Strom Thurmond.
The rest remained not only Democrats, but quite liberal Democrats. These included such liberal luminaries as Harry Byrd, Robert Byrd, Allen Ellender, Albert Gore Sr., J. William Fulbright, Walter F. George, Russell Long and Richard Russell.
Fulbright was Bill Clinton’s mentor. Gore was “Al Jazeera” Gore’s father. Sam Ervin headed Nixon’s impeachment committee. The segregationists who were in the Senate in the ‘50s were rabid Joe McCarthy opponents. In the ‘60s, they opposed the Vietnam War and supported LBJ’s Great Society programs. In the ‘90s, they got 100 percent ratings from NARAL Pro-Choice America.
These “Southern oppressors” were liberal Democrats when they were racists and remained liberal Democrats after they finally stopped being racists (in public). If Republicans had a racist “Southern strategy,” it didn’t work on the racists.
Nor did Nixon — or Reagan — ever win over segregationist voters. Republicans only began sweeping the South after the segregationists died.
Even as late as 1980, when Reagan won a 44-state landslide, the old segregationists were still voting Democrat. Although Reagan handily won Southern states that had been voting Republican since the ‘20s, he barely won — or lost — the Goldwater states.
According to numerous polls, Reagan swept Southern college students, while losing college students in the Northeast. Meanwhile, The Washington Post called the elderly “a bedrock of Carter’s southern base.”
As LBJ explained to fellow Democrats after doing a 180-flip on civil rights as president and pushing the 1964 Civil Rights Act (which resembled the 1957 Civil Rights Act he had gutted as a senator): “I’ll have them niggers voting Democratic for two hundred years.” That’s according to a steward on Air Force One, who overhead him say it.
It’s one thing to rewrite history to say the Holocaust was when the Swedes killed the Jews. But it’s another to say that the Holocaust was when Jews killed the Germans.
That’s how liberals rewrite the history of civil rights in America.
Bingo.
"History is written by the victors." Winston Churchill
Ya beat me by a nose.
IngSoc says; “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”
It is neither; it is a lie by one of the propaganda arms of the National Socialist Democrat Party.
Wasn’t Al Gore Sr. (A Democrat) also against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Happens to me all the time :)
"Just remember -- it's not a lie.... if you believe it."
Ha it’s funny you mention that, I was just posting in another thread how the teachers here in New York city tell the kids Lincoln was a Democrat. Ask any kid in New York city “What party did Lincoln belong to” ALL of them will tell you Democrat unless it’s some smart kid who taught himself. It just gets worse and worse every year and Republicans continue to sit on their asses and do nothing.
How pathetic and useless are Republicans?
Here’s how pathetic and useless Republicans are: They have allowed the party of slavery, Jim Crow, black-targeted welfare family-destruction, and black-targeted abortion to paint them as racist.
“It is not an error. It is revisionist history.”
Otherwise known as a FILTHY LIE.
Which is the Real ‘Racist’ Party: Fifteen Questions for Democrats
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2447235/posts
In the old movies from the 1940’s the reporters were interested in getting the facts.
It seems that facts are dangerous radioactive kryptonite to the modern Leftist, forked tongue, brainwashed, government supremacists that pretend to be journalists.
Did somebody say doubleplus ungood?
It seems more like an article from the Onion.
LA TIMES/ONION.
POTAYTO/POTAHTO.
* It’s one thing to rewrite history to say the Holocaust was when the Swedes killed the Jews. But it’s another to say that the Holocaust was when Jews killed the Germans. *
It’s easier for the Leftists to just go with the opposite of what is true. Then they don’t have to make their lies clever in any way.
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