Sen. Byrd to play Confederate general in movie

Charleston Daily Mail ^ | December 19, 2002 | Chris Stirewalt

[lorrainer]

Sheesh. You'd think he would be worried about being typecast...

[onedoug]

"Ba'um rail on top this time, Massa."

[thatdewd]

Just where are the white Nwords from anyway?

Actually, a great many of them come from areas not shown on your map. They're easy to spot, I'm sure you've seen them on TV the last 2 weeks as they endlessly engaged in the despicable and bigoted act of labeling and defaming entire groups of people and sections of the country. Their 'modern bigotry' is what always gives them away. I'm sure glad there's not any on FR.

[First Amendment]

Regarding life spans - I read several places that life spans in previous times weren't necessarily shorter but they factored in mothers dying young, high infant mortality, etc. Even in the middle ages if someone lived through childhood, they have a good shot at living til 70 or more.

[azhenfud]

"Well, compared to the general population combat deaths don't really make much of an impact."

Pardon? Maybe not in today's combat. However, 600,000+ deaths of men aged 17-39 over a four year span covering a territory having roughly one third today's population is hardly insignificant and would surely affect the ALS numbers. I don't see how war deaths on and off the battlefields couldn't be a prime influencing factor....

[azhenfud]

I know my GGG grandfather who served the CSA and the CSN - his father died at 82, and his grandfather at 79.

Anyway, the only way I can picture Byrd playing anything at his age is for him to play the part of a senile old man in a "rolling chair" trying hard to recall his past....

[Choozer]

As long as he's helping the DemonRats keep 'em on the Plantation (aka voting Democrat), then he'll catch no flak.

[COBOL2Java]

I realize that Byrd has excellent credentials for portraying a Confederate general, but how in the hell can an 84 year old man portray a 48 year old man?

Easy. He'll walk backwards. :-)