Friday, March 04, 2005
Conservatives chastise Sen. Byrd for "Hitler" comment.
(CC News) Reacting to a warning by Sen. Robert Byrd about the danger of repeating historical mistakes regarding the treatment of minorities, two Jewish groups and two GOP politicians criticized Byrd for using an analogy to Adolf Hitler to get his point across.
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, in particular, claimed that the comments would "lessen the credibility of the senator and the decorum of the Senate," and many conservatives seemed to agree.
Former Texas GOP senator Phil Gramm decried Byrd's lack of tact, and suggested it would only be fair to now hunt Byrd down with dogs.
Right-wing banshee and screech harpy Ann Coulter also expressed outrage at Byrd's outspoken bluntness, further suggesting that it would be only appropriate to now invade Byrd's home state, kill all the Democratic leaders and convert the survivors to Republicanism.
Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly reacted to Byrd's comments, telling Byrd that he should, "Shut up! Shut up! Just shut up!", while vice-president Dick Cheney expressed sorrow over what he called Byrd's "impolitic remarks," and suggested that Byrd should just go fuck himself.
In a determined attempt to restore some semblance of sophistication and politeness to the chamber, Santorum asked if anyone wanted to know his views on gay marriage and "man on dog" sex.
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I love whom you choose to defend CC. I'm sure you are not aware that the wonderful democrat Byrd was a clan member.
Right? Or maybe you just don't care. But hey, why comdemn a clan member? You're right CC, the Republicans are being ridiculous...
"Byrd was a local leader of the Ku Klux Klan for a period of time in the early 1940s, holding the title Kleagle; Klan recruiter. In 1945, controversy was raging over the idea of racially integrating the military. In his book When Jim Crow Met John Bull, Graham Smith referred to a letter written that year by Byrd to racist Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, in which Byrd vowed never to fight, "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." [1] (http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/02/standards.html) In a 1946 letter, he wrote, "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia." However, when running for Congress in 1952, he announced, "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." "
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
CC,
You need to check your cites. They're not ready for prime time, and no adult is going to be fooled by them because of the date problem
Anonymous:
You need to look up the definition of "satire".
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