[Tall_Texan]

PJ2:

Claude Pepper was never a Senator. Jesse Helms is retiring, just as Thurmond. That leaves Byrd and Hollings on your list.

And since they are both Democrats, they can spout all the racist venom they want and the media won't say a peep about it.

You have to understand the media's template. Democrats are never racists, even when they are. Republicans are always racist, even when they're not. Once you have this down, much of Washington politics will become clearer to you.

[jwalsh07]

You have to understand the media's template. Democrats are never racists, even when they are. Republicans are always racist, even when they're not. Once you have this down, much of Washington politics will become clearer to you.

That's because republicans are gutless. Like now.

[Political Junkie Too]

Claude Pepper was never a Senator.

Yes, he was.

-PJ

[aristeides]

Actually, Pepper was in the Senate for a while. After he lost his Senate seat (if memory serves, George Smathers beat him in a primary around 1950,) he became a member of the House, and served there for a long time.