I tried to get on the Brad and Britt show out of the Triad this morning to ask them how they will treat the old KKK member when he passes on, ran out of time. I bet the papers won't even mention his Klan affiliations, filibustering against the civil rights act, etc and so on.

Can we look forward to Maxime Waters' epitaph reading:

"Maxime Waters: Black Racist" ?

How about Cynthia McKinney?

The ads Broder talked about in that article said more about Helm's voters than they did about Helms. A politician will only run an ad to which their voters will respond, won't they?

The ads Broder talked about in that article said more about Helm's voters than they did about Helms. A politician will only run an ad to which their voters will respond, won't they?

Calling Helms' ad against race quotas (aka "affirmative action") racist is just another example of how the left demonizes and delegitimizes policy differences.

And when Ted K goes the headline will say - 'Ted K. - vehicular homicide killer' - No?

Makes you wonder what they'll say when the SDS guys and "Weatermen" radicals die. Call 'em white knights and great crusaders? Libtards disgust me.

How recently has Byrd voiced his opposition to civil rights? If you read the article, it's about the fact that Helms based his entire career on exploiting racial divisions between blacks and whites, where Thurmond, Byrd, and George Wallace recanted and apologized.

"How recently has Byrd voiced his opposition to civil rights? If you read the article, it's about the fact that Helms based his entire career on exploiting racial divisions between blacks and whites"

He was in the Klan for chrissakes! He's involved with the murder of God knows how many African Americans but just because he faked an apology once or twice you're willing to forgive. That tells me more about how you feel about minorities than either Helms or Byrd.

opposition to quotas is not de-facto proof of racism. If we were to be intellectually honest, support for race-based quotas is more racist than opposition, evan.

and that single ad is the biggest reason libtards love to hurl the label of racist around. While Jesse Helms may well have been a racist (cue in Maxim Waters or Cynthia McKinney or the entire Black Congressional Caucus for that matter) in his heart his actions in office never demonstrated that feeling.

We expect the media to laud old Lefties like Kennedy and Carter. We will never hear of Kennedy's character when he dies. We'll never hear him referred to as a coward and a murderer.

We will never hear Obama called a black racist.

I am so sick of the media. Helms was worth any ten Democrat senators and fifty Washington Posts.