Lester Maddox=358 Hits; Lester Maddox + Democrat= Just 63 Hits (RACIST DEMOCRAT ALERT)

[Doctor Raoul]

Click here to see Google NEWS Search for "Lester Maddox" as a phrase and the word "democrat"

Note that while 63 hits are reported, when similarities are removed (eg., multiple hits because an Associated Press article appears in amny papers), it just two different articles.

Go to the search box on that page and remove "+democrat" and the number jumps to 358 and there is not a lot of similarities, they're different article. Look at the bottomm and you'll see it says there is nine pages of hits.

THE LIBERAL MEDIA DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE AX HAND SWINGING RACIST WHO USED VIOLENCE TO KEEP BLACL PEOPLE OUT OF IS RESTAURANT IS A DEMOCRAT!!!!

[Doctor Raoul]

Just resubmitted that search, mentions with Democrat now down to 55. Other figure dropped slightly to 354.

[Hunble]

Ok, I understand you point and agree.

But did this need it's own thread?

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

The title of this article has a really poetic pace to it.

[PianoMan]

And Lennox Louis = 3 Hits but it was enough to get his superior opponent TKOed. Go figure.

[GB]

Oh puh-leez. Look, I know we're in a war and if there's any weapon out there to hammer the Dems we ought to try to grab it and use it, and I know it probably feels good to point this out, and it makes a good soundbyte, but comparing Old South Democrats like Lester Maddox to today's modern Democrats is about like comparing apples to kumquats. Old South Democrats like Lester Maddox, George Wallace, etc., were Democrats simply because the Republicans imposed Reconstruction on the South, and in those days you were less than 100 years removed from Reconstruction and those memories died hard. Old South Democrats were New Dealers as far as federal government activism, although they bailed out when things got out of hand with the Great Society, but on social issues aside from race they were pretty much in line with the GOP today. I don't think I need to point out, however, how wrong they were on the race issue.

If you'd grown up in the South during the late 1950s and 1960s ... as I did ... you'd understand this.

But the thing is, of the folks from that era who are still involved in politics ... not so much on the national level like the Senate, where you have Byrd, Hollings, etc., but on the local and state level ... an awful lot of them switched to the GOP (like George Wallace Jr., FYI). And need I point out that Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms were once Democrats and switched to the GOP?

Bottom line, by all means let's use ever weapon at our disposal to hammer the Dems ... but let's make sure they're relevant and put them in context and consider all the factors.

[JOE6PAK]

Try "democrat idiot". I got 26,100 hits.

[Doctor Raoul]

Is that your Humble opinion?

Absolutely deserves it's own thread because it exposes the Underground Democrat Racists. They seek the safety of darkness, but every once and a while, they slip up and express their true racist beliefs.

Robert Byrd, with his own words, confesses to being a racist. On a Sunday news show he stated that there were "white niggers too" and that he knew "a lot of white niggers". Funny how he was only talking about some white people. White people who acted like what? Well Robert Byrd believes is a type of person called "nigger". Do we know anyone who uses the word "nigger" in earnest that doesn't believe it means all black people? Is there any black person that hears the word "nigger" and says, "They can't be talking about me..."

"Old Sheets" bared his racist soul on national TV and the liberal media give him journalistic absolution. And Hillary Clinton on arrival to the Senate seeks out Byrd for his advice and describes him as a mentor.

Yeah, this one does deserve it's own thread.

[GaConfed]

Doesn't it just pi$$ you off that while you are up there in Pa. obsessing about, and looking down your nose at some redneck with two guns in the gun rack and a 9mm in the dash of his pick'em up truck, that self same redneck doesn't even give you and your kind the time of day. He means everything to you, but you could crawl in a hole and die, and he wouldn't even give a $hit.

[Doctor Raoul]

The Dems use ignorance of the past and imply that the opposition to civil rights in the 60s was by the GOP. The try to saddle us with the Dixiecrats when all of them started out as DEMOCRATS and when the Dixiecrats fell on their ass, they ALL went back to being DEMOCRATS. STrom didn't become a Republican for at least a decade after his Dixiecrat phase.

As for Helms, I don't know his history as well.

And the Democrats still use that lie to buy votes with hate. They'll stand in the pulpit of a house of God in a black community and blame "the right wing" for burning black churches. Well under the Clinton administration, a multi-agency task force headed by BATF called the "National Church Arson Task Force" looked into "burning black churches". Hell those agencies were run by CLINTON'S APPOINTEES and still they couldn't find this epidemic of "burning black churches". The Democrats lied to create hate between the races so as to gather votes for themselves. How noble.

The reports of the "National Church Arson Task Force" are available on the web. Any reporter who has the good work habits and an investigative spirit would have a great news story comparing Clinton and Gore's statements against the task forces finding. Do I think that will happen? No, not unless Matt Drudge does it. That's why he's a millionaire, and few reporters are, he works harder and has higher standards.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I'm no posting Nazi, but what the hell is this doing in breaking news?

[redpoll]

Hey, I just tried something else that was interesting. I typed in +segregation +democrat and got 67 hits... then +segregation +republican and got 112 hits. All this demonstrates is that the media is biased, which is no surprise to anyone. Don't blame google.com... the search engine is just quantifying what we all know anyway.

[GB]

I can't disagree with you ... but does it help our cause to sink to their level of taking stuff out of context? FYI, Strom Thurmond became a Republican in 1964, nearly 20 years after he ran for president as a Dixiecrat. Before and after his Dixiecrat phase, he was a Democrat.

[Doctor Raoul]

Boy are you wrong. I have no problem with Southerners. Your delusion of what believe is more typical of what liberals believe about Southerners. Hell there's some "redneck bashing" thread every day on some liberal websites. Heck the tolerant liberals also reveal how homophobic they are. Their latest snickeing about Rush is that he and Rep Foley are gay. Read their threads and there's lots of negative gay stereotypes cited ridiculing their "enemies". The most racist things I've heard, are liberal talking about black conservatives.

A typical taunt from a liberal at our protests is "redneck", which PROVES LIBERALS ARE BIGOTS. What is a bigot, it's someone who applies a stereotype (positive or negative but usually negative) to all members of a group. "Redneck" according to the dictionary is a derogatory term for poor rural southernerns, as I was born, raised and live in Philadelphia (above the Mason-Dixon) those liberals ARE bigots. Since black people can also be poor in the rural south, I conclude that those liberals are not only BIGOTS, but pretty dumb BIGOTS because they are using a term that according to the definition would include poor rural blacks as well.

To reiterate, I'm not taking all Southetrners to task, just the subset of RACIST DEMOCRATS.

[Doctor Raoul]

Lester Maddox died today and these stories are current. You can do the exercise for yourself and see the media bias. As this is time sensitive (it may not work as well a day or so away) it's in "Breaking News".

Does that meet with your approval now?

[Amelia]

As others have stated, this doesn't belong in breaking news.

And, unless one knows nothing of Lester Maddox past 1965, it doesn't belong on this forum at all.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Breaking news usually has to be a news story. Take you bitter rear end to the chat section.

[billbears]

TO KNOW THAT THE AX HAND SWINGING RACIST WHO USED VIOLENCE TO KEEP BLACL PEOPLE OUT OF IS RESTAURANT IS A DEMOCRAT!!!!

Hey at least get the story straight. He didn't wield an axe

Maddox gained national attention in 1964 when he brandished a pistol and chased black protesters from his Pickrick restaurant the day after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.

Whites from his restaurant chased the protesters with pick handles. Maddox closed and then sold the Pickrick rather than serve blacks. He would adopt the pick handle as his political symbol during his gubernatorial campaign and thereafter, and sold souvenir picks and axes.

He wielded a pistol. And you have something wrong with freedom of association do you? So according to you, it was wrong of Gov. Maddox to refuse to serve someone in his private establishment that he didn't want to? Heck, we better make sure we're down protesting with the feminazis next year at the Masters then!! What kind of sign do you want me to have them save for you?

Mind you, I don't agree with racism, but then again I don't agree with the national government setting quotas

[Hunble]

Do we know anyone who uses the word "nigger" in earnest that doesn't believe it means all black people?

Me!

However, I grew up in another place and time before 1984 and the invention of "NewSpeak" and the concept of "Thought Crimes." When I was growing up, we considered George Orwell's 1984 as a warning and something to be horrified about.

How dare you attack someone like Lester Maddox or even Robert Byrd, who grew up in another place and time!

They would only be "guilty" if they violated the accepted social norms of that time and place.

[Amelia]

To reiterate, I'm not taking all Southetrners to task, just the subset of RACIST DEMOCRATS.

Lester Maddox wasn't a racist, but I don't expect you to understand or believe that.