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Monday, June 28 2010 - 03:10 PM
Robert Byrd RIP
“Before his death early this morning at the age of 92, I placed the legendary West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd in the category of “only the wrong survive” along with Fidel Castro and Pete Seeger. I was not a fan.
In 2005 the New York Times published a predictably fawning profile Senator Byrd by Sheryl Stolberg in “A master of Senate’s ways is still parrying in his twilight.” Around the same time I found an occasion to reflect on Senator Byrd’s discourse on Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale in “Tales of the Senate.” Today Adam Clymer provides the traditional Times obituary.
Robert Byrd was indeed a valuable link not only to the Senate’s past, but also to the Democratic Party’s history as the party of slavery, segregation, and opposition to equal treatment of blacks. Stolberg obviously loved Byrd’s cornpone constitutional shtick in favor of filibustering a Republican president’s judicial appointees. It’s a shame that Stolberg exerted no effort to put Byrd’s shtick in the context it merited.
Byrd was old enough, for example, to have vowed memorably regarding the integration of the Armed Forces by President Truman that he would never 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.”
Even after his resignation from the Klan, Byrd continued to hold it in high esteem, writing to the Klan’s Imperial Wizard in 1946: “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.”
And Byrd was old enough to have participated in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as to have voted against it after cloture along with 18 other Democrats — in the name of the Constitution, of course."
Scott Johnson
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/06/026630.php
marino says...
Racist Democrats get a pass. Just because. For everything.
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avbornbred says...
If we dare say anything negative about Senator Byrd, the left wingers will cry foul. The left has already planned a holiday for when Vice President Cheney passes and another on for President Bush.
When those to fine men pass, the left is going to light up the blogs and press with a joyfull attitude.
I never met Byrd, so I ain’t gonna say anything other than he was a senator for a long time.
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highground says...
We need more Senators like Byrd. He did one thing very well and better than the others in the Senate. He represented the citizens of his state. West Virginians knew that and sent him back to the senate again and again.
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Randy Hall says...
Not that he wasn’t a racist, not that he followed The Constitution but that Byrd knew how to dish out the pork. Yah we need more Byrd bridges, post offices, tollways…ect.
Wonder if his largess with other people’s money trickled down into this non-white neighborhoods sheets-Byrd hated so much?
With Byrd’s history it is a fair question. Another fai question would be; what kind of “reeducation” did sheets attend to shed his KKK past?
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Cybertariat says...
I so love it when typically racist reactionaries the likes of Randy and Marino feign concern over racism. ’Tis always a hoot.
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Randy Hall says...
Mr. Marsh again proves his morally superior position demonstrating yet again that Marxism is nothing more than a moral viewpoint.
In other words, Mr. Marsh’s moral viewpoint is superior to anyone that disagrees with Marxism or him, our resident scholar in all things Marxist.
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whomeye says...
If there’d been a white KKK republican, you know there would noise. The dems almost always get a free “get out jail” pass…
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Amir Raheem says...
Byrd was hardly the first and certainly not the last…
Presidents who were members of the KKK:
President Warren G. Harding, President Woodrow Wilson, President McKinley, President Calvin Coolidge, and President Harry S. Truman.
Supreme Court Justice members: Hugo Black.
Other notable and downright important men were: President Warren G. Harding. He was actually sworn into the Ku Klux Klan in a Klan ceremony conducted inside the White House by Imperial Wizard Colonel Simmons.
President Woodrow Wilson and President McKinley were members of the KKK, little is known of their Klan membership however. There is at least one book that documents they were actual members, but it only mentions they were members, that’s all. McKinley was a Union officer, but many Union men joined or affiliated with the original First Era Ku Klux Klan during the Radical Republican’s anti-white Reconstruction Era. Union General Hardee was another Union man who later joined the Klan. President Wilson would have been a member of the Klan under the Command of Imperial Wizard Colonel Simmons.
URL: http://able2know.org/topic/99462-1
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Amir Raheem says...
It was the Democratic Party that created the KKK. It was the “Dixi” Democrats, that fought the equality movement in the 1950’s & 1960’s and it is the same Democratic Party that is pushing the destabilization of U.S. Citizens at this time…using illegal immigration as the methodology. Don’t confuse immigration with ILLEGAL immigration. Which by the way, I find so completely abhorrent, they (Democrats) so enthusiastically support.
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Randy Hall says...
“As one would expect, many media are downplaying the disgraceful past of Byrd, solely because he is a Democrat. Adam Clymer of the New York Times wrote an obituary that took 18 paragraphs to get to a mention of the Klan. Andrew Taylor of AP took 23 paragraphs. Joe Holley of the WaPo took only five grafs, which is almost fair. But asks yourself if a leading Republican with a racist background had died, would it take multiple paragraphs before it was mentioned? Come to think of it, are there any leading Republicans with such a racist background?
On the plus side, Sen. Byrd liked to quote Cicero, and knew the Senate rules very well."
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/06/robert_byrd_rip.html
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