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Rush On His Program Just Called Robert Byrd 'Sheets' On Air... ROTFLOL!!
Excellence In Broadcasting Network ^ | December 13, 2002 | The Mighty All Knowing, All Caring, All Feeling Maja Rushie

Posted on 12/13/2002 11:46:40 AM PST by ewing

Rush said that Robert Byrd when he was in Congress was nicknamed 'Sheets' (a name that probably made his ears burn) by Old House Speaker Tip O'Neill back when when Chris Matthews was working for him.

A new FR classic nickname?


TOPICS: Free Republic; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: byrd; housespeaker; kkk; sheets; tiponeil
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To: ewing
LOL ! bttt.....
61 posted on 12/14/2002 3:32:04 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
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To: Norman Arbuthnot; mountaineer
Robert "Sheets" Byrd ping (and post #35 ROTFLMAO bump!)
62 posted on 12/14/2002 7:47:22 AM PST by RFP
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To: ewing
And 3 sheets to the wind, perhaps?
63 posted on 12/14/2002 7:49:51 AM PST by Chemnitz
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To: Paul Atreides
LOL
64 posted on 12/14/2002 11:32:38 AM PST by VaBthang4
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To: ewing
I read somewhere that Byrd actually sold white sheets for a living before he entered Congress. Since he was the Grand Kleagle (Chief Recruiter) for the KKK I guess he also sold the uniforms to the newly recruited and made out like a bandit.
65 posted on 12/14/2002 11:55:34 PM PST by tinamina
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To: OderintDumMetuant
Somebody ought to research if there were any lynchings in West Virginia in the late 30s and early 40s when Byrd was active...

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchingsstate.html

Lynchings: By State and Race, 1882-1968 *

State White Black Total
>snip<
West Virginia 20 28 48
66 posted on 12/15/2002 7:48:07 PM PST by OderintDumMetuant
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To: Paul Atreides
I think "dancing in the sheets" came off the soundtrack of that Kevin Bacon movie, was it "footloose" about the guy from chicago getting the high school in rural usa somewhere to have a school dance?
67 posted on 12/17/2002 2:18:03 PM PST by Capt.YankeeMike
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To: scouse
If ever Ellen Ratner's cheeks explode, she could wipe out the whole of Manhattan.

Just think what Barney Franks' would do.

68 posted on 12/17/2002 2:27:57 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Capt.YankeeMike
Yep. The movie was Footloose, with Kevin Bacon and John Lithgow as the obligatory evil Christian.
69 posted on 12/17/2002 3:51:01 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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To: ewing
Sheets was what Rush said Trent called him.

Bryd was a paid KKK recruiter and has zero place representing the most pwerful nation on earth.

Rush even reported today that Robert Kennedy was bugging Martin Luther King when Kennedy was Atty General!!
70 posted on 12/17/2002 8:28:57 PM PST by Kay Soze
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