SENATOR HOLLINGS' RAGE

[Nadd]

On 60 Minutes, South Carolina Senator Hollings makes outrageous statements... -- southern Republicans "not quite" racist -- Condoleeza Rice should go back to "teaching Russian or whatever she does" -- Bill Frist should go back to the "operating table" ... complete interview at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/12/10/60minutes/main660368.shtml.

[Nadd]

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[Embraer2004]

What can you expect from a racist, woman-hating Southern drunk? Good riddance. Go back to the Cantina, Fritz!

[Brilliant]

Hollings was instrumental in making the Democratic Party what it is today.

[KJC1]

And Hollings needs to go back to authoring draft legislation in order to blame it on President Bush and scare voters.

Or not. Maybe he should just go away.

[Noachian]

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Why?

Who really cares what an old washed up Democratic liberal rants about?

[amigatec]

About the only part he had right was the comment was were he said the Dems would vote for the party if the party left segregation alone.

The rest was a hit piece.

[the Deejay]

And Fritz should go back to
his coffin, while someone
drives a stake into his
heart (if he has one.)

[Nadd]

Well, I guess we might as well exploit it while we can for 2006 and 2008 and beyond...

[Semi Civil Servant]

There goes the going away fruit basket from the Pubbies.

[Cornpone]

Fritz should go back to minding his slaves...bigot that he is...

[Swanks]

Condoleeza Rice should go back to "teaching Russian or whatever she does

"Go back to". In other words, upitty-black should understand her position in life; stay with the job you had 20 years ago and expect no advancement.

The Democrat Party. Pretending to like black people, since 1964.

[Theresawithanh]

He says in the interview that Condi should go back to "teaching Russian, or whatever", and makes disparaging comments about President Bush and his father when he was president and the Iraq war.

There. I've pretty much summed it up. Y'all don't need to follow the link now.

[mattdono]

Senator Hollings seen exiting the 60 minutes interview...He was muttering something like "BAH-HUM-BUG!" or something like that...

[rcocean]

Thank goodness this embarrassment to the south is leaving. Was there ever a bigger hypocrite in the senate?

From the south, this is.

[Drango]

60 Minutes? Is that a show I should watch?

[lt.america]

I was waiting for this one. My favorite was when he was talking about how you can't force democracy on the Iraqi's and the Shia's, Shiites, Kurds have been fighting for years and we are wasting our time. So, I guess a murderous dictator is preferable to democracy in Fritz's eyes.

[Embraer2004]

Yes, you are forgetting Robert KKK Byrd, another Southern hypocrite and an embarrassment to the great state of WV

[cfhBAMA]

TOO MUCH CONSUMING GOING ON...REMEMBER THAT RETARTED REMARK HE MADE... HE REMINDS ME OF ALABAMA'S FORMER RETARTED SENATOR HOWELL HEFLIN (D) HE HAS OUT LIVED HIS TIME. THE SOUTH IS GROUND ZERO FOR THE GOP...

[Kirkwood]

Fritz Hollings? I thought he was dead.

[digger48]

Don"t you just LOVE the fact that the taxpayers have given, and will give, this Jackass millions of dollars to be like this.

[okie01]

Ernest Hollings was born and raised a racist. He became the governor of South Carolina, openly running as a racist.

Then, when blacks got the vote, the political leopard changed his political spots. He became an overt liberal. And a closet racist.

Now that he is retiring, is old and senile, he can once again be what he once was: an openly filthy racist.

Fortunately, he longer counts in the political calculus of things...

[StarFan]

I'd give my eye teeth to have that mad man debate Zell Miller.

[the Deejay]

The Democrat Party. Pretending to like black people, since 1964.

Using the black people since 1960. (It started with JFK.)

[Nadd]

I like this version of his life. I would tend to agree.

[onyx]

He is.

[jimfree]

Scrooge McDuck was not a racist! He only sought profit. Race was not a factor for him.

[tet68]

Senator Foghorn Leghorn speaks.

[truth_seeker]

From young to old, the dems hold a strident belief in the Sharp Soundbite, as their ticket to success.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over, expecting different results.

But don't tell the dems. But they probably couldn't hear, because they ain't listening---just yackin.

[Chaguito]

Whoa, not good to be a racist. Not good to be a woman-hater. Not good to be a drunk. But what's so bad about being "Southern"?

[rcocean]

A close second.

Rollings doesn't like special interest money but was in the pocket of Hollywood and the record industry.

He's from SC and pretends to be somewhat conservative and then talks about what a great President Kerry would be.

Or putting the confederate flat in the SC flag, and then posing as the great race liberal.

Plus the man always sounded like a cartoon character.

[the Deejay]

Senator Foghorn Leghorn speaks.

LM*O!!

Again, he speaks & has nothing worth saying.

[cfhBAMA]

But what's so bad about being "Southern"?
NOT A DAMN THING. **SWEETHOME ALABAMA**

AMERICAN BY BIRTH SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD...

[bism]

Good gosh, all we have left of the three stooges is old Bob Byrd and the head lush, Teddy Kennedy. What will we do for laughs?

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Hollings is the type of old line, racist, ass that killed the Democratic Party in the South. He should have had his butt kicked years ago and I look forward to the day he is gone.</p>

[Soul Seeker]

Yep. Said as much in the other thread. ITA with you.

"We had a sweetheart deal with the National Democratic Party. 'We’ll go along with all your programs, if you’ll go along with our segregation.' But once that Civil Rights Bill passed in 1964, then Lyndon friend became Lyndon the enemy," says Hollings.

This was about the only thing of value that he said, and even this he distorts by implying Republicans are racist.

[Pharlap]

Hollings, as Governor of South Carolina, personally led the fight, in the early 1960's, against lunch counter integration. (See, New York Times, March 17, 1960, which reported that Hollings boasted "that South Carolina would not permit 'explosive' manifestations in connection with Negro demands for lunch-counter services." Hollings also "challenged President Eisenhower's contention that minorities had the right to engage in certain types of demonstrations" against segregation. He concluded that Eisenhower was "confused" and had done "great damage to peace and good order" by supporting the rights of minorities to protest segregation at lunch counters.)

Hollings also was listed as a participant at a conference of "leading segregationists" in Atlanta to organize a "segregation bloc" voting lobby to resist integration. (See "Segregation Bloc Seeks Vote Lobby," New York Times, July 24. 1961.)

Hollings' senate career is replete with instances of racial and religious slurs. After a poor showing in an Iowa Straw Poll, he remarked that wetbacks from California were brought in to vote for Alan Cranston (then a California senator) who finished second in the balloting. He also made derogatory references about an African delegation that attended a Law of the Sea Conference, suggesting that they were cannibals. Finally, Hollings once referred to Howard Metzenbaum (a Jew, who was a senator from Ohio at the time)as "the senator from B'nai B'rith."

In his racist and religious slurs, Hollings ranks with several other prominent Democrats who have uttered inappropriate racial or religious comments. The list includes: Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Robert Byrd, Al Gore Sr. and J. William Fulbright.

[nadlo]

"Thank goodness this embarrassment to the south is leaving. Was there ever a bigger hypocrite in the senate?"

NO!

[newagepublius]

I believe the correct spelling of the quote was, "Dar's too much consumin' goin' on out dar'!" He really does sound like Foghorn Leghorn!

Related to another poster, I have heard a story, probably apocryphal, that, during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearing, Strom Thurman interrupted Howell Heflin and said, "Howell, I can't hear ya'! Ya got to talk into the machine! [meaning microphone]" And they said ole Strom didn't have a sense of humor.

[foofoopowder]

The good news about Senators such as Hollings and Chappy Kennedy is their health, evidenced by their fat florid faces.

[buckeyesrule]

Did Fritz Hollings bother to tell us why he placed the confederate flag at the SC Statehouse as govornor. Was he asked? Yeah, I didn't think so. The Packers-Lions were playing a great game today at the time 60 minutes was on so I watched that instead.

[tom h]

"On 60 Minutes, South Carolina Senator Hollings makes outrageous statements... -- southern Republicans "not quite" racist -- Condoleeza Rice should go back to "teaching Russian or whatever she does" -- Bill Frist should go back to the "operating table""

Someone said it so aptly a few weeks ago -- his vitriol sounds clearly like "the rage of a drowning man."

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Condoleeza Rice -- Bill Frist

I agree with Hollings sentiment about these two, but for different reasons.

Neither of them are leaders by nature.....they both go along to get along......and I fail to see real qualifications in their backgrounds justifying their positions, except that both are articulate and genuflect well. just my opinion......

[trek]

Too much red-statin' goin on out der!

[cfhBAMA]

You are correct. I am southern but even I have trouble breaking down this thick southern draw.

[kimosabe31]

Hollings is full of S@#T !!

[the Deejay]

What will we do for laughs?

LOL!

No idea, but perhaps we should think of something for sure!

[the Deejay]

Too much red-statin' goin on out der!

OMG, That's funny!!

[Kirkwood]

Thought so! :^D

[carlr]

He has gotten by for years as an affable,witty cornpone.

He is a racist,vindictive,ignorant blow hard who will say anything and than try to pass off senility as an excuse.

[llevrok]

He's a dottering old fool. Yet he , Byrd and Teddy are cherished by the MSM as national treasures. I don't get it!