[jackbill]

Can you imagine what the press would have done with a Democrat with Strom's record? Bob Woodward would be one of many "Thurmond" biographers; the History Channel would have an annual Strom week; every American would know of Strom's war record and service to our country....Strom probably could have won the Presidency with a "D" following his name.

Watching O'Reilly tonight, I wanted to hurl. Both O'Reilly and his guest, "Dr." Douglas Brinkley said that Thurmond was a racist - even today. Garbage.

I wish that I could live long enough to see what "history" says about those two when they pass on.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Thanks for the heads up, jackbill. I sent Mr. O'Reilly a copy of this thread. Isn't O'Reilly a "blue-dog" Democrat? Perhaps Bill will have Conde Rice on his show and she can tell him how her grandfather registered Republican in the Jim Crow south of the '50s because the Democrats wouldn't let a black man register. oreilly@foxnews.com.

[cajun-jack]

o'reilly (or oh really) gets on my nerves...I don't watch him on t.v. or listen to him on the radio. I just don't care for his condescending manner...it's not that i disagree with him on most things,because i don't, it's just that i don't like the way he delivers it.