[Terpfen]

I really wish people would stop using the "he was in the KKK!" knee-jerk response to Byrd. Eventually, it gets old and no one listens to it anymore; I know I'm getting tired of hearing it. Can't people start rebutting this guy factually instead of historically?

[Radix]

I really wish people would stop using the "he was in the KKK!"

Can we mention his use of the term "white niggers" on National live television last year?

[NYC GOP Chick]

I'm sorry, but I think that his past (?) membership in that organization speaks VOLUMES about his character. He was not a kid when he willingly joined -- and became a recruiter -- for what was, essentially, a terrorist organization.

And the fact that he *insists* on being treated as some sort of moral authority worthy of respect and deference is appalling, as well as undeserved.

[Bahbah]

What is not "factual" about history, the un-deconstructed kind anyway?

[freeperfromnj]

Can't people start rebutting this guy factually instead of historically?

This sitting senator is a former member of one of the most vile, hateful, racist organizations ever to have existed in this country.....and that is a historical fact.

[TBall]

Once a klansman always a klansman. Send The Bird to Byrd.

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[Sonny M]

If you've ever seen him on C-Span, he is a little more calm now in regards to african americans, but not if they are conservative, then he gets very long winded. You want facts though, Byrd is the lead democrat with the filibustering, but have you noticed that the only time he has talked about the fillibuster, and the only time he moves on it, is when the judge is not white (Estrada). He even pretty much gave a free pass to Pickering, who is just as a conservative, and had some controversy on him, but he went loose on Bush's hispanic pick. I don't think its a coincedence.