Anti-war Group Touts KKK Byrd's Speech

NewsMax.com ^ | Sunday, March 9, 2003 1:09 p.m. EST | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[Jean S]

A leading anti-war group is touting a recent speech by U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, who once belonged to the domestic terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan; an organization that waged a violent decades-long jihad against black Americans, Jews and Catholics.

In a full-page ad in Sunday's New York Times, the group MoveOn.org praised the Klansman-turned-top Democrat as "one of the most respected United States Senators" and urged that Americans needed to take his words to heart.

MoveOn was referring to the senator's words about a possible war in Iraq, and not his past comments decrying blacks as "race mongrels" and "the darkest specimens of the wilds."

The anti-war group - originally founded in 1998 by Clinton loyalists trying to fend off impeachment - reprinted verbatim a Feb. 12 speech by the "N"-word-using Democrat, who quickly resorted to Bush-bashing in a bid to save the terrorist state of Iraq from U.S. attack.

"The Administration, now in power for a little over two years, must be judged on its record," contended the former Klansman. "I believe that record is dismal."

Byrd went on to complain that President Bush had "squandered a large projected surplus of $5.6 trillion over the next decade" and is "underfunding scores of essential programs for our people."

The one-time terror group member also warned that the U.S. is incapable of fighting "a global war on terrorism alone" and blamed President Bush's "senselessly bellicose language and our callous disregard of the interests and opinions of other nations" for increasing "the global race to join the nuclear club."

Sen. Byrd, who publicly denied for the first time just two months ago that he had ever participated in lynchings and cross-burnings, cited "the highest moral traditions of our country" to argue that "war is not necessary at this time."

It was quite a transition for the moralizing anti-war pol, who only two years ago used the "N"-word twice while discussing American attitudes about race with "Fox News Sunday's" Tony Snow.

More recently, the former Klan recruiter has had to defend his 1971 sponsorship of a bill to name the Senate's main office building after Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, who is chiefly remembered for derailing anti-lynching legislation in the 1930s.

MoveOn.org made no mention of Byrd's Klan history in its New York Times ad.

[Tacis]

You know, these anti-Americans seem an awful lot better organized and better financed than they ought to be. Where did the money for the NYT ad come from (assuming the NYT didn't just comp them)? What is the sponsoring organization and what is its background?

[Jean S]

I don't know but others here are doing research on Answer and Moveon.org. I'll see if I can find any of the threads.

[Jean S]

I did a search for MoveOn, lots of threads came up:
MoveOn

[CavScoutNC]

Has Robert Byrd faced any flack for portraying a Confederate General in "Gods and Generals"? Now imagine Trent Lott in that same role and the amount of backlash he would have recieved.

Liberals will look away to their own, i.e. Clinton and the NOW, but are quick to admonish Republicans. Hypoctites!

[CavScoutNC]

Has Robert Byrd faced any flack for portraying a Confederate General in "Gods and Generals"? Now imagine Trent Lott in that same role and the amount of backlash he would have recieved.

Liberals will look away to their own, i.e. Clinton and the NOW, but are quick to admonish Republicans. Hypocrites!

[weegee]

Moveon(moron).org was the site founded to protest the Clinton impeachment. They called for censure instead (which was dropped as soon as it became clear that X42 would not be impeached by the Senate and removed from office).

They refocused their efforts and listed out 10 socialist goals they wanted to accomplish. The page was then relaunched with a new face (and more ambiguous background) the same day Rosie O'Donnell sent viewers to their site (she was doing some interview program).

They had their origins as a partisan Clinton front organization.

[weegee]

Roger Ebert began his review saying that it was a movie that conservatives would love because the first black man doesn't get a speaking role until about 90 minutes into the movie. The bigoted nature of such bit players (and financers) as Senator 'Sheets' Byrd (Tip O'Neil's name for him) and Ted Turner was not discussed in Mr. Ebert's review.

[StACase]

...Senator 'Sheets' Byrd (Tip O'Neil's name for him)...

Really! Now that IS interesting!

[7 x 77]

Is it Byrd-brain whose going to be marching in support of Augusta?

[farmfriend]

ping

[JoJo Gunn]

Yep, the Klan isn't just for the Right wing extremists anymore. Not that it ever was that exclusive. The Klan was always a Democrap force, no matter the jibber-jabber of the history revisionists trying to sweep Bull Connor under the rug.

[nothingnew]

...as soon as it became clear that X42 would not be impeached by the Senate and removed from office).

The ratbastard WAS IMPEACHED, just not prosecuted for removal.

FMCDH

[mafree]

I heard KKK Byrd on Larry King- no questions about his KKK past.

[Mo1]

In a full-page ad in Sunday's New York Times, the group MoveOn.org praised the Klansman-turned-top Democrat as "one of the most respected United States Senators" and urged that Americans needed to take his words to heart.

Well it's obvious these nit wits never listen to any of Bryd's speeches .. The man is a NUT CASE