[ewing]

Rush still fighting the good fight..

[cactusSharp]

like no one on tv , radio or elected....Rush is an army
of one.......and my personal hero

[Caliban]

Tip had a few lucid moments apparently! LOL!!!

[Hatteras]

Rush played a clip from Chris Matthew's show last night where Chris mentioned that "nickname".

[ewing]

Byrd ping

[My2Cents]

And for those who don't get the reference, Robert "Burning Cross" Byrd would be more appropriate.

[scouse]

Rush still fighting the good fight..

I would like to see him take on these women who have had the Botox shots in their faces. After all Botulism is too dangerous to be transported around willy nilly. These women are nothing more than mobile toxic dumps. If ever Ellen Ratner's cheeks explode, she could wipe out the whole of Manhattan.:^))

[Enterprise]

That is too FUNNY! From now on if I am talking about BYRD, I will use "sheets."

[aristeides]

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.

Robert Byrd still is in Congress. I wonder if anybody calls him that now.

I take it Matthews knows this because he heard O'Neill use the nickname when he was on his staff. What are the years when Matthews was on O'Neill's staff? Let's try to pin this chronology down.

[Paul Atreides]

I remember there was a song in the 80s called "Dancing In The Sheets."

[fuquadukie]

Just sent an e-mail with the following in the subject line -- Hey, Sheets!! Whassup???

Repeated in body of e-mail. Nothing else. Short, sweet and to the point.

No, I am NOT suggesting this, but.....

[fuquadukie]

Rush was hysterical today. It seemed as if he inserted "And, Trent Lott still has not resigned" in every story. ROFLMAO

[OldFriend]

LOL.....so we have 'sheets', the 'swimmer' and there must be a few more that freepers can create.......

[Defiant]

Somebody ought to research if there were any lynchings in West Virginia in the late 30s and early 40s when Byrd was active, and if so, start nosing around to find out if Byrd was involved. I would love to hear a reporter ask that old windbag if he ever attended a cross-burning, or a lynching, and see what he says. Maybe some of his old buddies are still around and ready to talk about it.

[Saundra Duffy]

George Wallace was a democrat.

[Grampa Dave]

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL ! bttt.....

[tinamina]

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.

[Kay Soze]

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!!