The American Spectator

Steve G| 7.6.10 @ 6:26AM

Another home run, Mr. Lord. Keep 'em coming.

Alan Brooks| 7.6.10 @ 10:34AM

Jonah Goldberg:
"It is a good rule of thumb not to speak ill of the dead. But what to do when a man is celebrated beyond the limits of decorum or common sense? Must we stay silent as others celebrate the beauty and splendor of the emperor’s invisible clothes?
You probably know why I ask the question. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate in American history, died Monday. It was truly a remarkable career. But what’s more remarkable is how he has been lionized by the champions of liberalism. On Thursday, Byrd’s colleagues took the unusual step of honoring him with a special service on the Senate floor, where he would lay in repose — with some irony — on the Lincoln Catafalque, the bier used to hold the slain body of the president who freed the slaves. The irony stems from the fact that for much of Byrd’s life, his allegiances were with Lincoln’s opponents in that effort. More on that in a moment.
Not long ago, the assembled forces of liberalism were convinced that the Senate was “broken,” that the anachronistic filibuster impeded progress. The Senate itself, with its arcane rules and procedures, had become undemocratic and was in need of vital reform, according to all of the usual voices. John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and a sort of archbishop of liberalism these days, drew on his deep command of political theory and social science to explain that the American political system “sucks,” in significant part due to the unwieldiness of the Senate.
Well, who better represented those alleged structural problems than Byrd? Nearly every obituary celebrates his “mastery” of the rules. This is from the first paragraph of the Washington Post’s obituary: Byrd “used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and, above all else, tend to the interests of his state.”
Yes, what about his tending to his state’s interests? For several years there’s been a lot of bipartisan indignation over the perfidy of pork and “earmarks.”
Who, pray tell, better represented that practice than Byrd? The man emptied Washington of money and resources with an alacrity and determination not seen since the evacuation of Dunkirk. There are too many of these Byrd droppings in West Virginia to count, but we do know there are at least 30 buildings and other structures in that state named for him. So much for Democrats’ getting the message that Americans are sick of self-aggrandizing politicians."

Nancy in NC| 7.6.10 @ 5:45PM

I'm glad I'm not in Robert Byrd's shoes, explaining that "relationship" with the KKK, and all his stealing from the American people to his Maker.

Truth to Power| 7.6.10 @ 7:19PM

Anybody that supports one of Reverend Wright's congregation for President is just as bad as a Senator Byrd supporter. It is no accident that they are in the same party.

Peter Tympanick| 7.14.10 @ 4:24PM

This has been the best article I've ever read as it relates to race in Politics. Jeffrey, you nailed it on the head with this one.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 7.6.10 @ 6:34AM

And while digesting Jeffrey Lord's article think about these quotes from Ayn Rand:

"The common good of a collective -- a race, a class, a state -- was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle? The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. The believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with the declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing of themselves. But observe the results."

"All public interest legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes down ultimately to the grant of an undefined undefinable, non-objective, arbitrary power to some government officials. The worst aspect of it is not that such a power can be used dishonestly, but that it cannot be used honestly. The wisest man in the world, with the purest integrity, cannot find a criterion for the just, equitable, rational application of an unjust, inequitable, irrational principle."

Blackwatch| 7.6.10 @ 9:21PM

Communism/Fascism/Socialism : They take control. They take the wealth of those who oppose them. And then they start killing those same opponents.

Happens everytime.

Lazarus Long| 7.6.10 @ 7:10AM

The Democrat Party has always been the party of the four S's: slavery, secession, segregation and socialism.

Robert Pinkerton| 7.6.10 @ 9:24AM

At this writing, the public face of the Democratic party seems to me to be that of the unholy alliance of the stratospheric super-rich and -- not the proletariat but -- the lumpenproletariat, both ends against the middle.

Too, as the party of globalization, it is the party of the emotional secession of the city great rich (for that is the actual meaning of "bourgeois) from its People into alliance with their peers from other countries against all of their Peoples.

Still, even though such people are a dying breed in the Democratic party, very occasionally it still means something locally worthwhile.

Go figure!

uncle curmudgeon| 7.6.10 @ 10:56AM

You can add the Fifth S now: Submission (i.e. Islam); or the Sixth: Sodomy.
Anyone else want to keep this going?

Cincinnatius| 7.6.10 @ 11:02AM

Might I add: Statism and the big one, STUPIDITY.

Purpleguy| 7.6.10 @ 3:26PM

Let me guess - Republicans are the party of freedom, God, Mom and Apple Pie. Do I have that right?

Sally| 7.6.10 @ 4:27PM

Purpleguy - You are! You have it absolutely right!
Good job.

blackwatch| 7.6.10 @ 9:25PM

Mom & Dad--we support Dad's too in the republican party. You know--something more than sperm donantion is required to be a Dad.

and Apple pie? Way over rated.

Pumpkin pie--now that is a superior dessert!!

Tom Bruner| 7.6.10 @ 4:29PM

Not apple pie. That came from Europe, probably England, Holland, or Sweden.

flybynight| 7.6.10 @ 7:14AM

I believe that Radical Leftists, Marxist Socialists & Stalinist Communists are some of the most ignorant and wicked people on earth. Their ignorance of, and disdain for The Supreme Judge of The World put them by default into the service of Evil spiritual powers. Leftist believe they do good but they really are doing evil. As each day passes now, the spiritual essence of ALL our choices becomes more apparent; as shown here by Mr. Lord's clear explanation of Leftist racism implied within Bill Clinton's inadvertent confession. What's happening during these present days is most certainly no Sunday-stroll thru the park. No sir, not by a long-shot.

Ret. Marine| 7.6.10 @ 7:28AM

Yeah leave it to ole' billy-boy klinton of the kommunist head bufoon squad to show the true colors of their mindset. This man is evil to the core, he actually thinks those of us who herald history as a guidline to times of latter are just going to let this pass and think nothing of it. I saw this peice of kommunist krap the other day and noticed his remarks and thought to myself, did he just justify one of his own for just wanting to get elected, and this pos was a president of these United States, good God no wonder we are in the trouble we are these days. Leaders of all people, should have at the least, be exposed to their one minute of shame to reflect upon those bad decissions and then ask the simplest of questions, who in the hell delegated you to be the excuss or example of evil men? Back under your rock serpent.

Purpleguy| 7.6.10 @ 3:28PM

The trouble we are in today is due to the profligate spending spree of the last 30 years Presidents and Congresses - controlled by Republicans, you ditz.

Blackknights1802| 7.6.10 @ 4:09PM

What the hell rock have you been sleeping under?

Nancy in NC| 7.6.10 @ 5:41PM

Purple: mix red and blue.

Red: for communism
Blue: the color one turns when mouth breathing.

2Anglico| 7.6.10 @ 8:35PM

purpleintheface, since 1900, the donkeys have had control of congress with 60 or more senators 11 times- eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil republicans- ZERO!! Do not try your propaganda here.

E.Patrick Mosman| 7.6.10 @ 7:44AM

President Clinton joins the much beloved lawyer Atticus Finch of "To Kill a Mockingbird" in dismissing the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan as "a political organization more than anything else," and the leader of the lynch mob as "basically a good man" with "blind spots." In Clinton's case the leader is Senator Byrd.

Patrick| 7.6.10 @ 10:01AM

Those "blind spots" including lynchings, arson, and terrorism?

Qwilly| 7.6.10 @ 7:52AM

Byrd's comment about "OLD GLORY" was speaking of the Confederate Flag. Maybe this is
what is meant by, INSTITUTIONAL RACISM...

Stephanie| 7.6.10 @ 8:08AM

Will ANYONE in the MSM listen to and report what Mr. Adams has to say about these horrible people in the justice dept? Will there be an investgation? Can you imagine what would happen if the tables were turned along with the color of the man with the nite stick?

Pocono Joe| 7.6.10 @ 8:12AM

"He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan" - - - - Slick Willie
Approximately 10 years in the Klan and being elected "Exalted Cyclops" of the chapter that Byrd himself founded is apparently considered "a fleeting association".

Louis Jenkins| 7.6.10 @ 8:15AM

I'm puzzled by Clinton's grasp of Byrd's life. So here's a guy who joins the Klan to get ahead? What manner of person would make an excuse like that? Clinton is a smuck, plain and simple, and for Heaven's sake, allow Byrd the opportunity to die. That way we're rid of him.

Mainstream USA| 7.6.10 @ 11:58AM

Umm, Obama joined Rev. Wright's church to get ahead, didn't he? Before that, he had about as much political street cred as Steve Urkel.

Sally| 7.6.10 @ 4:32PM

LOL!!! But true!!!

Nancy in NC| 7.6.10 @ 5:46PM

Sorry I missed your call.

Maura| 7.6.10 @ 8:23AM

This article should be required reading for all Americans. I wonder if the feckless white voters who helped put this abominable man in the White House (as one put it to me in November 2008 "this is our chance to finally heal the rift between blacks and whites") will comprehend that Obama and his Attorney General do not believe white voters are entitled to equal protection under the law.

Melvin| 7.6.10 @ 9:18AM

Maura, these feckless white voters are walking around in a stupor after feeling that their cherry has been popped by Obama.
"But he told us that he loves us, and that we were going to make history along with Black voters in coming together and joining hands."
Well, I guess these doe eyed virgins aren't virgins anymore and they feel as if they have just been raped by the Democrats.
It looks like new age psycho babble doesn't mix well with Chicago style of politics. Kind of like the feeling of getting their lunch money stolen, embarrassed and feeling vulnerable while everybody watched.

Patrick| 7.6.10 @ 10:04AM

"It looks like new age psycho babble doesn't mix well with Chicago style of politics. "

It mixes well for the rapist. I suppose that means it was the MSM that dropped the ruffie into the voting public's drink.

Blackwatch| 7.6.10 @ 9:37PM

I for one have decided that now that Justice Department is actually the Non-Whitey Justice Department that I am no longer required to follow the law and jury instructions when deciding cases for or against persons who are not my race.

So if "the Court" calls me for jury duty I can fairly decide the guilt or non-guilt based on the skin tone of the man or woman on trial. Facts are subjective depending on the skin tone of the person giving the testimony. If they are a unionist that gives me double points.

Thanks to you Government Racists and your political agenda---all sorts of persons are going to get a "get outta jail free card" due to you LIBTARDS!! Welcome to the Balkans USA where we get to support our fellow tribemembers or our co-religionists over the Rule of Law.

Thanks AG Holder. When we have a Rwanda in America we can all point back to the start of it all right here in DC. Hope that's the change you all voted for.

Jim O'Brien| 7.6.10 @ 3:30PM

Obama and Holder don't even believe in the rule of law. That's why they are fighting the citizens of Arizona (and all American citizens) by encouraging 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants, who burden state governments, the federal government, and taxpayers with $100's of billions for: 1) education; 2) medical care; and 3) the criminal justice system.

Obama and Holder don't want American citizens to learn that thousands of Mexican drug pushers are operating around the U.S., or that a few thousand terrorists may have walked across the Mexican border already. What will Obama, Holder, Napolitano, and Congress have to say when 9/11 or worse is replicated by terrorists who infiltrated from Mexico to AZ, TX, CA, or NM?

Laddie Buck| 7.14.10 @ 1:26PM

What will Obama, Holder, Napolitano, and Congress have to say when 9/11 or worse is replicated by terrorists who infiltrated from Mexico to AZ, TX, CA, or NM?

Easy:
"It's all George Bush's fault!"

Silly question, Mr. O'Brien. You should know better.

Nancy in NC| 7.6.10 @ 5:48PM

Wonder what would have happened in Philly if someone had left the poll and returned with their 12 gauge? Do you think the police would have got involved then?

This was a perfect picture of voter intimidation and those guys walked.

Narodnik| 8.29.10 @ 10:36PM

A gang of black thugs not giving EQUAL protection to white victims of black crimes, when black on white crimes are at an all time high. NOBODY wants to be near blacks. NOBODY. Bush was right to make a deal with V. Fox to let in the illegal drug runners to deal with the blacks, drug them, jail them, or just ethnically cleanse them - that IS what Hispanics do, especially illegal ones. GOOD.

Melvin| 7.6.10 @ 8:32AM

So where does John McCain fit into the scheme? Someone please correct me if I am wrong here. To advance the political Philosophy of Progressivism it doesn't really matter what political party one belongs to because Progressivism is the end game.
Progressives in either political party are merely acting out the illusion of differing political philosophies .
In actual reality, there isn't Republicans or Democrats and their sub-groups, there is just Progressives and Conservatives.
But the bigger question is, why go through the charade of differing political parties, when the primary goal has been the advancement of Progressivism regardless in whether or not a politician is a Republican or Democrat.?

Melvin| 7.6.10 @ 8:37AM

I'm sorry I forgot to add this earlier. So now it makes perfect sense in why John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Olympia Snow, and Susan Collins do what they do.
They're actions are not bipartisan or reaching across the political aisle, but reaching across the aisle to fellow Progressives.

RAMIII| 7.6.10 @ 9:39AM

You are spot on! This IS the dirty little secret.

These people do scratch each other's backs. McCain always kept his Senate Seat in his back pocket. These politicians have insulated themselves in their ivory/ebony towers. They care about power (theirs not the little guy's) and money and . . . well, that's what they care about.

Patrick| 7.6.10 @ 10:13AM

Much of what you say is spot on.

Even so, how is it that the incoherent philosophy of anarchic tyranny known as liberalism has infected both parties? Because they owned one and infiltrated the other.

That doesn't mean the Republican Party is a lost cause, merely in need of severe rework. If any shred of conservative decency is worth defending, it must be done in the primaries. Only by replacing the unfit and those who have gone native regularly, and reminding the tenuous grip that the stalwart have, can we be free of traitors.

R Martin| 7.6.10 @ 8:55AM

"The point in each instance was and is to enflame a solitary race of people for political purposes. Whites for the progressive Byrd, blacks and Latinos for the progressive Obama. And by so doing scoop up the votes at the next election and the next and the next -- with the presumed progressive election victories used to inflate Big Government even more -- just in time to provide more services to the targeted race. "

This is the key section in Mr. Lord's chilling account of Progressive tactics. Leftist Democrats , who believe identifying themselves as Progressives somehow masks their true philosophy, have focused on Latinos for their poitical meal ticket. And, sadly, it is working. As Latinos, both legal and illegal, grow in number and influence they are catered to by Progressives, and the culture of our country is changed irretrievably, and not for the better. I don't know if this trend can be stopped, but I do know that opposing amnesty for illegals (in any of its guises) is essential.

Bob K.| 7.6.10 @ 9:43AM

Well written!

Now, how does Affirmative Action fit into all of this?

Tip O'Neill said that "all politics is local!" And it now follows that all politics is also racial and ethnic!

This is one of the big reasons for the resistance to unrestricted immigration and amnesty for illegal (read hispanic) aliens. Everyone knows that "in order to balance our "diversity" goals, these immigrants will step to the front of the "diversity" line, ahead of blacks, women of different ethnic and color backgrounds, and other privileged groups in competing for admission to colleges and for jobs in government and the education industry!

Diversity is perversity! It's purpose has always been to create division and discord and not to bring people together.

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell

Petronius| 7.6.10 @ 9:54AM

Look to history.
1972: The Democrat National Committee kicked out the old party regulars and replaced them with urban blacks and McGovernites. George Wallace was shot and crippled. We never found out who Victor Brenner was working for. The bottom line is we get the government the beltway establishment wants us to have. It's been that way since reconstruction. Individual liberty is anathema to these despots.

Cpm| 7.6.10 @ 11:27AM

Arthur Bremer was working for his own sanity.

J.J. Sefton| 7.6.10 @ 10:16AM

The KKK was founded by the Democratic Party to be their enforcers. Bet you were never taught that in public school.

Nancy in NC| 7.6.10 @ 5:55PM

You are spot on! And the Democrats were and still are the real racists. Their agenda is pushing the party of victimhood, so they encourage the victim mentality to join their ranks. And those with the entitlement scourge do so in numbers. I fear this country is doomed; not because of Obama and his minions, but those millions of Americans who are too "BUSY" to get involved. The primaries, where real change begins, are a joke.

Diligence by the citizens is the way a republic survives. We have failed, and now are becoming the slave, no longer the master of our own destiny. Tyranny is the theme of the land, and I see no peaceful way to turn things around.

Julie| 7.6.10 @ 10:35AM

As a "country girl" myself, I was struck by the presumption implicit in Clinton's statement: Obviously, in order to be elected by [those ignorant, bigoted, racist, moronic] folk in the hills and hollows of West Virginia, a politician would need to be in the KKK.

AMENBRO| 7.6.10 @ 7:02PM

THE Clintons admired, and robustly admitted mentor, was also a RACIST, but also an anti-constitutionalists; none other than Senate Member J. William Fulbright was used as a favored reference in Slick Willie's gubernatorial escapades.

All you liberal hypocrite progressive types forgetting who AL GORE's pappy was ???

Al Gore, Sr. did not stop at simply voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In addition, Congressional Quarterly reported that Gore attempted to send the Act to the Senate Judiciary Committee with an amendment to say "in defiance of a court desegregation order, federal funds could not be held from any school districts." Gore sought to take the teeth out of the Act in the event it passed.

Ostensibly, Senator Gore was "elated" at the idea of young Al, Jr. going to school with black children. In reality, however, the future vice president attended an elite private school.

In the end, the Gore Amendment was defeated by a vote of 74-25. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of President Bill Clinton's political mentors, was among the 23 southern Democratic senators and only one Republican voting with Gore for this racist amendment.

ALBERT true to form of MASSAGING THINGS claimed DADDIE lost his last senatorial bid cause he voted for the Civil Rights Act. In a recent speech to the NAACP, Vice President Gore said his father lost his Senate seat because he supported civil rights legislation.

Al Gore, Sr., together with the rest of the southern Democrats, voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Congressional Quarterly reported that, in the House of Representatives, 61% of Democrats (152 for, 96 against) voted for the Civil Rights Act as opposed to 80% of Republicans (138 for, 38 against). In the Senate, 69% of Democrats (46 for, 21 against) voted for the Act while 82% of Republicans did (27 for, 6 against). All southern Democrats voted against the Act.

In his remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Act, President Lyndon Johnson praised Republicans for their "overwhelming majority." He did not offer similar praise to his own Democratic Party.

My My My how time & BS flies.

chester arthur| 7.6.10 @ 10:49AM

I was never a fan of the senator,but he's dead,so I'm willing to leave him as he is and just talk about the living regressives,like the never-at-a-loss-for-a-smarmy-excuse Clinton and his defense of Klan membership for senators,and the still-living Jimmah Cartuh,who used blatant racism in his first tries at gaining and mis-using political power.Really,all Carter had to do was not be a jerk or a wimp and he might have passed almost un-noticed into a term or two as an undistinguished president.He couldn't even manage that,as I remember well.Clinton would have done well just to imitate the Carter we got,you know,just be a jerk or a wimp,but he was far worse than that.For that reason,this living example of the worst of the regressive movement's recent past can find a lot to defend in terribly flawed people who weren't nearly as offensive as he was.Who needs any of them?

whiterock| 7.6.10 @ 11:26AM

And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does. There are no perfect people. There are certainly no perfect politicians."

This is Clinton talking about... himself! Using the eulogy as a platform, he is laying the foundation for his future 'work' in politics.

Margie| 7.6.10 @ 11:37AM

I think you've got that right. Bill Clinton never goes away.. like his wife (are they still actually Married?) they just re-invent themselves. Repeatedly.

Bill Clinton is a walking Freudian slip.

JmsA| 7.6.10 @ 12:41PM

Margie,

You're right, they never go away. I believe Rush Limbaugh once mockingly referred to them as cockroaches who survive every catastrophe unscathed.

Margie| 7.6.10 @ 1:00PM

And having lived in NYC, as I have, Rush would know about cockroaches. The only cure was the Roach Motel, where "they checked in, but they didn't check out."

Washington D,C, seems to be like the Roach Motel for these guys. The voters are the only effective cure we have. The exorcism needs to be at the ballot box.

Nick| 7.6.10 @ 11:56AM

Clinton the Sleaze says of Sheets Byrd: "He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan [...]."

That is like saying that Bubba the pervert had a fleeting association with adultery.

FakeEagle| 7.6.10 @ 12:36PM

...and Charles Manson had a fleeting association with murder...

Northern Rebel| 7.6.10 @ 12:08PM

How interesting:

Robert Byrd being forgiven for his KKK membership by Bill Clinton, America's first black President, is a study in irony.

I wonder if Clinton's mentor, the bigoted former Arkansas Senator J. William Fullbright, would feel betrayed by Bubba?

Sarbo| 7.6.10 @ 12:21PM

Acc to Bill Clinton, Senator Byrd, a fellow Democat, was a regular old boy. Okay, he may have notched a few kills on his knife as a klan cyplops longterm and readilykilled, but ultimately saw the errors of his ways.

Hahaha!

ErickNYC| 7.6.10 @ 12:33PM

The American people need to know everything about the chicanery that has gone on within the DOJ. This case was made public because of the conscience and integrity of a small group of people. How many cases are concealed in the files at DOJ? How many years have passed while career attorneys employed at the DOJ have deceived and harmed the voting public, the American people, the United States of America, to engineer Social Justice at the ballot box.

All the the cases and those involved within the DOJ need to be exposed. We, the American people, need to know all about La Raza and ACORN, SEIU, et al, as these orginizations relate to these voters rights issues.

Former DOJ attorney, J. Christian Adams interview with Megyn Kelly
(Part 1):
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/.....t_id=87651

(Part 2):
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/.....t_id=87651

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Stephanie| 7.6.10 @ 2:30PM

WOW! He called obama a hussler!
When is someone in the republican party going to bring this to the light of day and ask for a special investigation?

Oldefarte| 7.6.10 @ 12:51PM

Great article, Jeffrey. Being ignorant of Arkansas politics, I do know that it is a southern state [and I've lived in the South all of my life]. The fact that Arkansas elected several times to various offices a closeted liberal such as Bill Clinton is truly amazing. Giving credit where due, Clinton is politically smart and now doubt used same to his advantage in his appeals to the good ole boys of that state. Clinton knows that [usually] extreme liberals cannot win the Presidency, and so he fashioned his platform positions toward the moderate factions, and disguised his liberalism. His NEW DEMOCRATS theory proclaimed that moderation was the only possible means for victory [and he succeeded]. In 2008, they [Bill and Hillary] lost out to the ultra liberal faction of the DP [and Obama was nominated]. Now, after the brief political experience of an Obama/extreme liberal presidency, this nation has finally seen the progressives/liberals come out of the political closet [and a re now disgusted with same's policies/proposals]. The polls are indicating more and more independents are tacking toward conservatism due to this shocking exposure to extreme liberalism that Obama represents; and the November elections should demonstrate if the electorite are truly fed up with what/who they have seen/witnessed since January of 2009. I hope and pray that the polls are accurate and reflect a thoroughly disgusted group of voters!!!!!

Seek| 7.6.10 @ 1:25PM

Robert Byrd left the Klan while still only in his mid 20s. I think his decades in the Senate were far more defining.

More to the point, by obsessing over Byrd's years in the Klan some 70 years ago, we ratify the Left's central obsession with rooting out "racism." Apparently, culture-war conservatives support a war on racism if liberals are cast as the primary culprits. Fools! We on the Right are doing the egalitarian's dirty work without even knowing it.

Margie| 7.6.10 @ 3:48PM

Not sure if it's just me but I cannot for the life of me figure out your post. I usually can't figure out psycho babble, I'm rather immune to it so this is probably the case here.

First~ who's obsessing?
Second~culture war conservatives, heh, that's yet another new one. Would that rank right up there with us Neo-Con Faux conservative Israel-Firsters? Oh never mind.

And thirdly~ conservatives despise liberalism in all its forms, racism included, and we don't have to cast them, they do a perfectly fine job of casting themselves.

Seek| 7.6.10 @ 4:34PM

Psychobabble, huh? My point ought to be clear even to the less literate: Conservatives have never made a big thing out of combating "racism," real or imagined, except in cases when it serves political convenience; i.e., to implicate liberals in the Democratic Party.

Properly understood, vigilante race hatred is anything but "liberalism," either of the classical or modern variety. But it is radicalism. The radical Left is too busy retooling America as a showcase for anti-white discrimination masquerading as "diversity" to be supporting outfits like the Klan. The fact that 70 years ago future Senator Robert Byrd did belong to the Klan barely rates a historical footnote.

As for culture war, it is the animating trait of today's conservatives, much to our detriment. Perhaps we could be more cultured. There are worse things in this world than being called "elitist."

David Williams| 7.6.10 @ 5:31PM

Seek, reread the article. I know it's long, but try. Margie has definitely got your number on this one.

2Anglico| 7.6.10 @ 8:43PM

Byrd did not just "belong" to the klan, he was a recruiter and a founding member of a chapter. Stop with the revisionism. Byrd was a racist in the true meaning of the word.

jstwndring| 7.6.10 @ 8:57PM

Conservatives never made a big deal out of combating racism? Ever hear of the Republican Party? It was founded by abolitionists (1854). Ever hear of them? How about the Civil War? Ever hear about that one? How about, as the author points out the 15th Amendment? How about the Civil Rights Act of 1875? 1964? No? Hmmm. Time to read up on some history I guess. First, take off the rose colored glassess though.

Truth to Power| 7.6.10 @ 7:14PM

"...obsession with rooting out "racism." "

There is no obsession with rooting out racism. There is an obsession with race. The Democratic Party lives by race and ethnicity. Whether it is the West Virginia KKK of the 1940's or Reverend Wright's church of the 1990's the Democratic Party feeds on stirring up resentments. It is what they do and they have always attracted various hucksters to their party. This includes the KKK, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Reverend Wright, Louis Farakhan or anybody that tries to declare racism when the One is criticized. Pointing this out is important and hasn't been done enough.

"We on the Right..."

Now that is funny.

dw| 7.6.10 @ 1:50PM

The left doesn't root out racism, it plays racist politics and ultimately defends their ruinous policies with the practice of deflecting targeted agument with name calling. We on the right are routinely called racist as a matter of course, so save your fake indignation and high moral stand and return to the leftist blogs from where you came from.

Northern Rebel| 7.6.10 @ 2:21PM

EricNYC:

Absolutely correct, sir!

We already know they refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party, for their voter intimidation tactics, now that Mr. Adams has become something long admired by the left:

A whistleblower! (Unless it's being blown in their direction)

Eric Holder is as corrupt as anyone in the Nixon administration, if not more so. One of Maobama's least attractive traits, is to shove corrupt cronies up the American citizen's ass, and then gloat in your face, like he dunked on you.

( I am 52 years old, and I would pay money to play Barry in a nationally televised one on one basketball game.) His "I'm a hot shit," attitude would wither in the direction of humiliation quickly, and I'm just an old 6'1" cracker.

Give me a shot, Mr. "President!"

No way he would risk the camouflage of masculinity, that the man-child has attempted to erect.

(pun intended)

Gerald Stephens| 7.6.10 @ 2:21PM

DIRTY SECRET…I’M A RACISTS

And you can take it to the bank! Being in the closet all these years was stifling. I awoke on the 4th of July and decided that hiding being a racist was counterproductive and destructive. I further concluded that refraining from pronouncing I am a racist was in itself a violation of my human rights and that of my constitutional right of free speech.

I fiercely detest blacks like B. Obama, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton. They are race pimps who make a living off the backs of ‘their ‘so identified people. Obama’s folks have already caught on to the rotten economic conditions unleashed in their lives and on their communities by ‘The Black One’, crushing unemployment numbers, home foreclosures, ever increasing numbers of their young failing to receive an education and a wholesale distribution of destructive racist indoctrination. The ‘man’ can not go more than a week without personally or through one of his hacks blame his failures on some concocted racist activity by those who are suggested to only be interested in destroying the first black president. ‘He ain’t no commie, just a hustler.’

Scarcely a week goes by without Eric Holder sticking his finger in ‘whitey’s eye, gonna sue Arizona, gonna screw New York City with the brutal costs and danger of high profile terrorist trial, gonna issue(d) orders to the Justice Department that NO prosecutions of blacks alleged to have violated election law like the BP boys club in Philadelphia, gonna suppress freedom of information requests from all comers including the press, gonna let illegal aliens run rampant throughout the country, gonna show whitey whose ‘boss man’ now. U.S.Constitution? “Listen here boy, it ain’t nutttin ta do with us. We didn’t sign for it!”

Then there is the sub-class of blacks that are a relatively new species of maggots whipping up the ‘racist this, racist that” storyline as a business. Just as a pimp profits from the fear and intimidation fostered in his ‘workers’, and the resultant control so too have the Sharpeton(s) and Jackson(s) climbed on the backs of the black citizen. . Jackson is a bit more sophisticated than Al in that he developed an extortion scheme targeting deep pocket corporations to comply with demands or be picketed. Criminals are criminals black or white.

My County Kerry Irish grandmother always said, “Nipper (little one), never tell a lie.’ So, not only am I a racist but also an anti-radicoIslamist, and anti-demigod, as in politician.

Northern Rebel| 7.6.10 @ 2:28PM

DW:

I would encourage you not to banish the lefty-socialist-liberal-progressive-communists, (whatever their calling themselves this week) to the Koz, or Puffington.

They are so easily vanquished by logic and common sense, it is the like the proverbial "shooting fish in a barrel" (though that is actually more difficult than it sounds, much more difficult than answering idiocy online.)

Besides, they provide entertainment, tell us who they fear, and keeps 'em off the streets!

dw| 7.6.10 @ 2:48PM

They are so easy to spot its like shooting rats in a trash yard. And like rats they will always be around. Whenever you smell that air of moral superiority mixed with that odorous concoction of hypocrisy you know they are close.
They have proven to be dangerous entertainers though, as evidenced by that clown in the white house.

Jim O'Brien| 7.6.10 @ 3:12PM

The Democrats, liberals, socialists ..... all support abortion and federal funding of abortion. This is another form of big brother government knowing what's best for mere citizens, and it is a totally racist policy since it is precisely the blacks and Hispanics whose numbers are most likely to be curtailed by abortions. So, I'd say to those minorities, "If you think it's a good idea to limit your influence in America, go ahead and vote for the liberals."

Concerned| 7.6.10 @ 3:13PM

Sure, Byrd "atoned" about his KKK years (being said very sarcastically) . . . but what about the people who followed in his footsteps? What havoc have they wrought in following their "leader"? I'd sure like to hear from some Black Americans how they felt about living under the iron grip of the KKK. I'll bet we wouldn't hear a glowing report or see a 'wink of the eye' regarding any of this. The entire eulogy and display witnessed at this funeral was extremely enlightning. Those with ears to hear . . . be warned.

dw| 7.6.10 @ 4:09PM

The Democrat party provokes racism, prolongs racism, propagates racism and prospers on racism.
Those who believe in abortion are aborting their own children.
One of their former beloved Presidents is a sexist pig married to a hypocritcal enabler whose personal obsession for career power keeps her in a political marriage.
The current excuse for a President is a serial liar intent on the socialization of our country.
His DOJ is selectively racist and will not protect whites and is now suing one of our states rather than enforcing existing law.
And the chief purveyor of the global warming hoax is also a serial sexist pig.
By all means, let's follow these fools to the gates of hell.
Just another day in obama land.

DT| 7.6.10 @ 4:26PM

Just an aside - Self proclaimed Progressive, Hillary Clinton. has always proclimed the virtues of Margret Sanger - it fits the visions of Mr Glass and Mr Wilson perfectly

coal carrier| 7.6.10 @ 4:30PM

I believe that Bill Clinton is accusing West Virginians of being racists. Is he right? After all West Virginia voted for the old white guy instead of the half white guy.

Northern Rebel| 7.6.10 @ 5:30PM

dw:

Keep in mind, the vast majority, of those who choose to exterminate their young ARE the lefty-liberal-socialist-progressive-communists. (whatever they're calling themselves this week)

Unfortunately, these are the same folks that squirt kids out like unintended flatulance, and treat both with the same lack of responsibility.

Then they show up in forums like this, seeking to lecture us on the proper way to behave.

Laughable, If not so damn sad.

GENE HAUBER| 7.6.10 @ 5:37PM

AMEN AND GOOD RIDDANCE AND I HOPE HE STAYS DEAD.

DaveS| 7.6.10 @ 5:42PM

Ask a Wellstone sendoff attendee what the sendoff was about and you'll have the answer to what the Byrd sendoff was about: exploitation of the moment.

DaveS| 7.6.10 @ 5:46PM

Ask a Wellstone sendoff attendee what the sendoff was about and you'll have the answer to what the Byrd sendoff was about: exploitation of the moment.

George S| 7.6.10 @ 7:33PM

Interesting that Trent Lott was hounded from the Senate leadership when he spoke at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday ("When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either."

So the "problems" were racial? I guess Byrd's 'service' in the Klan went a long way to solve those same problems Thurmond would have made worse as President? Hmmm... that's why Byrd needed to get elected. Only in the minds of Democrats does this makes sense; to the rest of us it's called hypocrisy, something that shames the moral man.

Margie| 7.6.10 @ 8:19PM

Yes, to the racist mind, they cannot fathom that everyone else aren't racists like them. So in their minds, saying "problems" definitely had to mean black people.

To the perverse, all things are perverse.

bluecollarbytes| 7.6.10 @ 8:16PM

Bill Clinton redefines "fleeting association". But then look at what he did with the deeper meanings of "is'.

Nate| 7.6.10 @ 9:58PM

There is no alliance between liberalism and racism or segregation.

By DEFINITION liberals are opposed to racism and segregation.

It is true that many northern Republicans were LIBERALS who hated segregation. So were many northern Democrats, and they were liberal too.

Why is this so hard for you to understand? Did you never take a U.S. history class????????

Southerners remained dogged Democrats after the Civil War, and many, of course, were racist whites who favored segregation.

But times changed.

Goldwater voted AGAINST civil rights; Johnson signed the civil rights acts of 64 and 65 into LAW.

And when he did, white racists fled the Democratic party in the south and took refuge among YOU in the Republican party.

And many of them are still among you.

So don't give me this bullshit about an alliance between liberals and segregation. When Byrd was in the Klan he wasn't a LIBERAL. That's how it works. He became more liberal as the years went on and seems to have renounced his past. I'm not nominating him for sainthood. I am asking that opinionators like Mr. Lord take a little more care with their political science and history before making these kinds of accusations.

Jeffrey Lord| 7.6.10 @ 11:24PM

Nate...

"By DEFINITION liberals are opposed to racism and segregation."

With all due respect, Nate, a philosophy that supported slavery, segregation, lynching and now racial quotas is racist. Every single step of the way from its founding in 1800 until this moment this has been the prediliction of progressives or today's "liberals" - who actually are not liberals in the original sense of the word. Respectfully, I think you are the one that needs to do some studying here.

Goldwater, who was an integrationist - opposed the Civil Rights bill of 1964 because he thought it gave the federal government too much power. period. He did not oppose it because, like Robert Byrd, he was a racist, much less a onetime Klan leader. LBJ, who spent a career supporting segregation, changed his mind -good for him. But the 1960's laws were re-dos of laws passed a hundred years earlier by the GOP.

I understand this conflicts with what you may be told or taught these days. It is, however, the cold historical truth. Progressivism or liberalism as it is today is a philosophy that believes in judging people by skin color, not individual merit. And by the way, the 1964 GOP platform supported the civil rights bill. You have it wrong, my friend. And perhaps some time with original sources would be helpful.

Curtis Rasmussen| 7.7.10 @ 12:13AM

Nate's statement is laughable.

Although my grades were good, I got into college because I naively checked 'Black/African American' in one box on my application. Affirmative action is something I never wanted but the racially motivated nanny state liberals imposed it anyway.

The only thing I had in common with my first college roommate was skin color. Socioeconomic background, education, interests, all went out the window. A real disappointment for my first time away from home as I fought for my hard earned grades, only to see my roommate take courses, with help, that I mastered in the 8th grade. 'F---ing liberals.

My first job out of College? I got it because I was black and breathing. I was looking forward to becoming a member of the team only to be relegated to senior paper pusher as there wasn't much going on. I fought to get on a decent program, gained some experience, and got the hell out of there. Liberal affirmative action again delaying development.

It's always the liberal that can't help but remind me that I'm different and I can't get ahead without their benevolence. What's stunning is they impose without asking, as if the black man is not responsible for his own actions. I see this for what it is: a racist insult to all hard-working minorities.

Herein lies the means of servitude. Convince the masses to relinquish freedoms for the guarantee of security. I for one never bought it and would probably be farther along in my career if the liberal affirmative action morons never existed.

Tim*| 7.6.10 @ 10:23PM

More Democrat Sham Apologetics .

Bubba Clinton's mentor ,Arkansas Senator J.William Fulbright.
Fulbright signed The Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. He subsequently joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as voting against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Rich Rostrom| 7.7.10 @ 12:51AM

Mr. Adams is off base here.

Yes, some Southern Democrats with "Progressive" affiliations were racist. All Southern Democrats were racist in those days.

But most Progressives (including just about all who embraced the party label) were functionally Republicans: Hiram Johnson, the LaFollettes, Teddy Roosevelt. They weren't racists. (They weren't conservatives either.)

Trying to play gotcha this way is futile. "Seek" is right - it just plays into the Left's game of making racism the big bogy. (Why does the YWCA have as its motto "Eliminating racism, empowering women"? Why does "eliminating racism" come first, ahead of the YWCA's natural mission? And why that and not "saving the environment" or "defending freedom" or "overcoming ignorance"?)

Yosemeti Sam| 7.7.10 @ 1:18AM

Clinton honoring Byrd: IOW an accused rapist making light of a simple KKK aficionado - of humble spirit.

A cynical billy boy bubba bud proffered - historical touche?

No harm - no foul?

Happily, synergistically - the Democrat party has two ever reliable stalwart Judas goats to foreman blacks on their plantation/reservation of blissful ignorancy.

Oh, for the fondest of wishes - a eulogy for the Democrat party come 11-02-10!

idle moment| 7.7.10 @ 1:31AM

Julie's comment away back about the intelligence of backwoods West Virginians reminded me of the "Why are there so many unsolved murders in West Virginia"? Answer: There are no dental records and all the DNA is the same.

What I took from Slick's "fleeting moment" pardon of Byrd's KKK affiliation was a sly pardoning of himself as another "good man" who had one minor failing. One that led to his impeachment - lying under oath about Paula.

For the occasional (don't I wish) Clinton admirer, I will remind you, it wasn't the sex, it was the lying under oath to a Grand Jury. And just look. You still love him.

Northern Rebel| 7.7.10 @ 1:38AM

Margie as usual; who have hit it dead nuts! (Machinists use this term in place of the British phrase: spot on.)

It is called projection. Because of the lefty-liberal-socialist-progressive-communist (whatever they're calling themselves this week) mentality, it doesn't occur to them that anyone's thought process would be any different from them.

It is like a common criminal, you doesn't trust his fellow crooks, because he assumes they would betray him just as quickly as he is willing to the same.

They simply can't process the mindset of a decent human, who gives everyone a chance, because in their circle, nobody fits this description.

Picture a NYC resident waking up in Nebraska, and being amazed that they don't lock their doors.

That is the mindset of a lefty-liberal-socialist-progressive-communist (whatever they're calling themselves this week.)

Northern Rebel| 7.7.10 @ 1:45AM

Please excuse my typos, It's late at night. I detest mistakes, because our opponents pounce on them, and try to compromise our intellect, as a convenient way to avoid the idea in the arena we're discussing.

For a perfect example of this trend, check out some of Adolph Brooks' recent posts.

What a despicable (human?)