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To: bentway who wrote (576646)	7/17/2010 1:33:37 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1570492

"He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected" Byrd didn't join the klan to just get elected and he wasn't just a klan member, he was a recruiter. Grand cyclops. Clinton was just doing what comes natural to him, lying

To: bentway who wrote (576646)	7/17/2010 1:46:48 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1570492

He didn't apologize 1000 times. The closest to an apology he made is now known as the 2005 "white nigger" interview.

To: bentway who wrote (576646)	7/17/2010 2:21:41 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570492

"Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena." So the reason to avoid the KKK is because it is an albatross around your neck. He doesn't say that the reason to avoid it is because it represents a belief system that is disgusting and shows the ignorance of the individuals involved. Nope, avoid being in the KKK because it will inhibit one's operation in the political arena....LOL.....don't you see that he never "got it"??? He filibustered the Civil Rights act of 1964 He opposed the Voting Rights act of 1965 He is the only senator to vote against both black nominations to the supreme court And who can forget his "white nigger" comment on Fox news. youtube.com It's amusing to see people defend this guy.

To: bentway who wrote (576646)	7/17/2010 2:54:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570492

perhaps the real question is why is MSNBC's political newscasters so racist... where are the black people with political shows on MSNBC? b/c they are racist, that's why! -lol- it is a b* when anti-logic bites back. ---------------------------------------------------- Blind As A Bat My column, in fact, did examine that issue. I cited and linked to two different YouTube videos of black men who proudly spoke at last September’s Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., and were very warmly received. How many blacks were in the audience? My colleague, Cliff Kincaid, who covered the protest and took pictures of it, saw some blacks in the crowd, although he didn’t count them. It’s a safe guess that the number of blacks at the 9-12 demonstration was short of the black percentage of the general population. But what does that prove? Such a gap doesn’t prove that the people who did show up were racists, or that the theme of the protest was racist in nature. In fact, the theme was anti-Big Government. And to repeat-the organizers actually did pick blacks to be speakers. By contrast, Olbermann and the other white faces on MSNBC-TV were deliberately picked by Jeff Zucker and the other suits that run the network. They did not pick one black face to host a political talk show. Olbermann’s response on the Daily Kos was that he has blacks on his show as guests. This is a variation of the “some of my best friends are black” routine. This kind of response is what adds to the perception among some conservatives that Olbermann just cannot be taken seriously. It also helps explain why his routines have become the subject of jokes on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show.” Assuming that he is serious, however, one can take a look at the home page of MSNBC-TV and find that it shows 10 white faces and no people of color who host or co-host their own shows on the network. To paraphrase Olbermann, “Where are the people of color on MSNBC-TV?” aim.org ha ha ha... msnbc got called out for their racism and so they had to put a light skinned woman in their line up - not sure of her back ground, though... msnbc.msn.com WHERE ARE THE BLACK MEN AT MSNBC? obviously, not very welcome! oh, nobody cares b/c their POLITICS are correct. hmmmmm... ad hominem... We are anxiously waiting for the day when Olbermann will resign his seat at the network and open up the position for a person of color. That way, he can actually do something about racism, instead of just talking about it.

To: bentway who wrote (576646)	7/18/2010 10:35:05 AM
From: SilentZ	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570492

>“ "I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."[22]" The truth is that he wasn't just trying to get elected; he was a racist. He really did change his ways, though. Still, I wouldn't have voted for him. -Z