Posted on 05/08/2003 5:40:12 PM PDT by Libloather
Maxine Defends Ex-Klansman
May 8, 2003
Imagine if you will, California congresswoman Maxine Waters, defending an ex-Klansman just because he’s a Democrat. The depths of desperation to which these people are plunging is unbelievable. Maxine just plunged further by echoing Robert Byrds latest Bush bash on the Senate floor. In doing so, she opened the door into her own face and bloodied her nose - as is becoming standard Democrat operating procedure.
Maxine appeared on the News with Brian Williams Wednesday night on CNBC, where she and great moderate Peter King got into it. You just have to hear this, folks. Simply telling you about it does not do her words justice. While listening to the audio below, remember that this is the same woman who called the financial investment house Salomon Barney Frank.
Another domino falls in my tag line conspiracy.
Also, last year: A member of a white supremacy group, Larry Felton, 31, was convicted in federal court for plotting to blow up a black church and a synagogue. He blamed his mother and father for contaminating him with black blood. No, I'm not making it up.....and how a black man becomes a member of the Aryan brotherhood defies explanation.
Todays tin foil is tomorrows reality.
Congressman Billybob
From - http://www.kkklan.com/ -
When Klansmen left the order their records were purged. Also, when the KKK disbanded in 1944, most membership records were discarded. We advise you to contact the county historical society where they lived during the time period of their supposed membership.
From - http://www.adl.org/learn/Ext_US/KKK.asp?xpicked=4&item=18 -
At its peak in 1924, 40,000 uniformed Klansmen paraded through the streets of Washington, D.C., during the Democratic National Convention. Like a modern political lobby, the group was so influential that many politicians felt compelled to court it or even to join, particularly in the Midwestern states. Senators, congressmen, governors, judges at all levels, even future President Harry Truman donned the hood and robe (though Truman shortly quit, apparently disgusted by an anti-Catholic tirade).
From - http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1179625.html -
Gavin told the group that he had never discussed the issue of Byrd's two-year membership in the KKK during the 1940s. The senator resigned in 1943, but is quoted by Scripps-Howard News Service as having written a letter to the imperial wizard of the racist vigilante group in 1946 stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia."
An appropriate lead-in to a Twilight Zone episode.
For my money, I believe Maxine to be the most unintellectual carbon-based form of life on the planet.
Matthews was pretty tough on Waxman. At one point, he asked Waxman about all the Democratic Congressmen who attend the Paris Air Show each year. Waxman immediately shut up and didn't know how to reply. The Paris Air Show for this year is being held June 15th-22nd. It would be awesome if we could find out which U.S. Representatives/Senators will be attending the show this year. I'm sure there will be some beltway morons (Dems & Republicans both) who won't be able to pass up the opportunity to visit the land of our enemy. By the way Matthews directed his question to Waxman, I got the impression that these politicians are flown over there at taxpayer's expense, possibly on military aircraft. Does anybody have any way to follow up on this and give us the scoop after the show?
They've already done that. Think Clinton on Juanita Broderick (literally).
She and her fellow RATs would settle for nothing less than prosecution on some fictitious "hate" crime.
I don't know....Sheila Jackson Lee is right up down there with her.
He's a leftist - what good is that? Let's focus on some more of KKK Byrd's words - shall we, newbie? Pretty wild stuff - from just last year!
http://hnn.us/comments/6185.html
Subject: Robert Byrd
Posted By: Editor
Date Posted: December 23, 2002, 8:32 PM
WALL STREET JOURNAL EDITORIAL: 12-23-02
The Democrats' Lott
Now that Republicans are replacing Trent Lott with Bill Frist as Senate leader, grumpy Democrats are suggesting that the entire GOP needs to make amends for a racist past. Well, fine, if it's a wholesale purge Democrats want, we assume they'll be happy to start with their own ranks and oust the former Ku Klux Klan Kleagle, Robert Byrd of West Virginia.
As usual, this high moral and political tone was set by the Democrats' supreme leader, Bill Clinton, and his wife Hillary. "I think there is something hypocritical about the way Republicans are jumping all over" Mr. Lott, the former President said last week. "He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what they do on the back roads every day." Massaging the same talking points, Hillary added Friday that what Mr. Lott "did was state publicly what many of them have stated privately over many years in the back roads and back streets of the South."
Last time we looked, however, Republicans didn't have any KKK alumni in their ranks. Especially not someone who has been the Senate's president pro-tem, putting him third in line for the Presidency after the Vice President and Speaker of the House. Surely this must shock the conscience of the Clintons.
Senator Byrd quit the Klan in the 1940s and has renounced it since. On the other hand, his history is worth revisiting, since it's something Democrats have been willing to tolerate, despite Lott-like remarks that would have ended a Republican's career. Only last year Mr. Byrd told Fox News that "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time, if you want to use that word. But we all -- we all -- we just need to work together to make our country a better country and I -- I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
Mr. Byrd quickly apologized, but he wasn't denounced by Democrats, much less by the Clintons. Nor did the press corps use the opportunity to wallow in other Byrd racial lowlights, such as the 14 hours and 13 minutes he spent in an unsuccessful filibuster during the debate over the 1964 civil rights act, which he voted against along with 20 other Senate Democrats. The political press also didn't dredge up his votes against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, votes that made him the only Senator to have opposed the only two black Supreme Court nominees in U.S. history.
At the time of his "white nigger" remarks last year, no national papers bothered to mention two letters that the Senator had distanced himself from, Clinton-style, by saying he didn't recall writing them, though he also didn't dispute them. The New York Times reported in 1971 on a letter Mr. Byrd wrote in 1946, after leaving the Klan. Writing to the Klan's Imperial Wizard, Mr. Byrd identified himself as a former Kleagle and recommended a person to serve as state Klan coordinator. He wrote, "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia...It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan realm of W. Va?"
And in a 1947 letter, after Mr. Byrd had been elected to the state senate, he wrote that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner (the American flag) 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."
Since those unfortunate days, Senator Byrd has often referred to his Klan membership as a mistake of his youth, less often as a moral outrage. As recently as 1997, he told an interviewer he'd encourage young people to become involved in politics, but with this warning: "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."
Not that this record inhibited Mr. Byrd's Senate rise. Democrats knew all about his racist past when they elected him their majority whip in 1971 over Ted Kennedy. He moved up to majority leader in 1977, defeating Hubert Humphrey, and led his party in the Senate until 1989. Even now as senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee he is regularly hailed by fellow Democrats as the conscience of the Senate.
By ousting Mr. Lott, Republicans have shown a willingness to punish any nostalgia in their own ranks for the misbegotten days of segregation. Democrats should be applauding this act of hygiene, especially given their own tolerance for leaders who have prospered by playing the race card.
Updated December 23, 2002
I wish I could remember who the President was at the time this incident took place. Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd were drunk (what else is new?). They needed to get a flight to attend someone's funeral and contacted the President (I believe it was the President or one of his cabinet members) to get a military flight out so they could get there in time for the services. I'm of the mind that the reason they were running late was because they had been out on the town boozing. They were pretty persistent in their pleas and it was quite obvious to the person they were talking to, that they were both smashed. I'm almost sure they got their requested flight.
I've just written John McCaslin of the Washington Times as I believe it was the Times that I originally found the article in, but I can't be sure. I'm hoping he will respond, but thought I see if I could job any Freepers memories on this one. I'd like to be able to find a hard copy so that I can send it around to folks like Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, etc.
Waters should have been literally thrown out of Congress for inciting her constituents to "stop burning your own
neighborhood and go burn [forgotten] some other group's hood"
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