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July 06, 2010

Senator Robert Byrd: Renaissance Man
— Russ from Winterset

I've been just as guilty as everyone else on the right of making fun of the whitewashing (so to speak) of the history of Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd (D, Birth of A Nation), and I feel that its time that we give the dearly departed credit for being more than a caricature of racial hatred and discrimination.

Senator Robert Byrd was much more than a Klan Recruiter who fillibustered the Civil Rights Act. As a Klansman, he also hated Catholics. And Jews. And brown-skinned foreigners. And Asians. And "Race Traitors" who favored miscegenation.

Remembering him solely as an old man who was WAY too comfortable using "the N-word" on camera is selling him short. It would be like remembering Joe DiMaggio only as the guy from the Mr. Coffee commercials.

He was also a great baseball player.

And a Dago Papist.

RIP, Senator Byrd. If God has a sense of humor (and I pray that he does), he'll let the late Senator spend eternity as a backup dancer for MC Hammer or Biggie Smalls.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset at 06:19 AM | Comments (65)
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1 It would be like remembering Joe DiMaggio only as the guy from the Mr. Coffee commercials.

Didn't he invent the Slap-Chop?

Posted by: toby928 at July 06, 2010 06:30 AM (4WbTI)

2 Byrd only said those things to get elected.

Posted by: Billy Jeff Clinton at July 06, 2010 06:31 AM (uKraB)

3 Great article about Byrd, Clinton and Democrat/Progressive race-baiting at spectator.org.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2010 06:32 AM (9Cooa)

4 How many bridges, roads and schools are named after YOU?

Posted by: Typical Moonbat Libtard at July 06, 2010 06:33 AM (mHQ7T)

5 ... he also hated Catholics. And Jews. And brown-skinned foreigners. And Asians. And "Race Traitors" who favored miscegenation.

Views. Newsletter. Subscription.

Posted by: Rev. Jeremiah Wright at July 06, 2010 06:35 AM (mHQ7T)

6 it is interesting that most of the criticism of Byrf;s Klan activity in the 40s comes from the right wing who still oppose civil rights and affirmative action. Blacks Jews Catholics who were the victims of the Klan ended up supporting Byrd and his political party.

Posted by: Denny Crane at July 06, 2010 06:36 AM (I+7Zv)

7 Gee, when did MC Hammer die? Or do you mean his career.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 06, 2010 06:37 AM (eNxMU)

8 What a story! Horatio Alger would be so proud: poor ol' boy from the piney woods rises from Kleagle to Exalted Cyclops to Senator (and still probably Exalted Cyclops). If he had lived longer, Sheets Byrd might have made it all the way to Imperial Wizard!

You have to give him credit, though. His influence among Democrats was strong enough to pull race-baiter/white-hater Osama Obama off the links to eulogize him....

Posted by: MrScribbler at July 06, 2010 06:37 AM (Ulu3i)

9 #6
The right opposes civil rights? Really? Care to document that blather?

Posted by: NJConservative at July 06, 2010 06:38 AM (LH6ir)

10 I'm not so sure Byrd could dance, but he was a fiddle player. He's probably in Hell right now getting a beat down from the devil in a fiddlin' contest, a'la, The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Wonder what second prize is?

Posted by: huerfano at July 06, 2010 06:38 AM (rqC5o)

11
It would be like remembering Joe DiMaggio only as the guy from the Mr. Coffee commercials.

True, he wrote articles for Sheet & Stream magazine for years. The guy was pretty sharp and pointed, just like the tip of his hood.

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 06:38 AM (t72+4)

12 #6 It's very interesting. Almost as though racism and affirmative action are related somehow...

Posted by: Shillelagh at July 06, 2010 06:38 AM (Oz4Bj)

13 Actually, I think the exalted Kleagle Cyclops Senator gets a cup of Mr. Coffee right before Satan says: "Okay, now everyone, back on your heads."

Posted by: FreakyBoy at July 06, 2010 06:40 AM (uKraB)

14 civil rights and affirmative action

Doubtless, the dunce's humor is unintentional.

Posted by: toby928 at July 06, 2010 06:42 AM (4WbTI)

15 12 #6 It's very interesting. Almost as though racism and affirmative action are related somehow... Posted by: Shillelagh at July 06, 2010 10:38 AM (Oz4Bj) ---------------- Don't forget me.......

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at July 06, 2010 06:42 AM (uKraB)

16 That's cold. But strangely tasty.

Posted by: Reidemandweep at July 06, 2010 06:43 AM (/H8uK)

The right opposes civil rights? Really? Care to document that blather?

ROTFL.. .trolls don't document. They come through, leave troll droppings like that above and leave. If they do come back they won't "document" a thing, they'll just go off on another tangent, make a lot more statements that they can't back up with facts and then change the subject and make even more spurious accusations.

Pretty much troll SOP I'm afraid. They can't back their positions with facts, logic or proof. Best you'll ever get out of them for anything even remotely approaching "facts" to back up there ridiculous opinions is some "study" that was funded or performed by some left wing kook or libertard organization that isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

Posted by: StuckOnStupid at July 06, 2010 06:44 AM (e8T35)

18 The only monument that should have Byrd's name on it is a tombstone with the epitaph... "THAT'S THE WAY THE STALE CRACKER CRUMBLES"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2010 06:46 AM (9Cooa)

19

You Cant' Touch This !

Posted by: Robert Byrd with baggy hip hop pants on at July 06, 2010 06:46 AM (t72+4)

20 So, old Bob joined the KKK to get elected? Maybe to get elected to some Klan office. He was a member of the Klan for at least fifteen years.

_{Bubba made better excuses for getting blowjobs in the Oval Orifice.}

Posted by: hurfano at July 06, 2010 06:49 AM (rqC5o)

21 Byrd was the shooter on the Grassy Knoll.

Posted by: toby928 at July 06, 2010 06:50 AM (4WbTI)

22
Bobby, I'll bet you wish you could trade that sheet in for a nice fire retardant racing suit right now, hahahahahahaha !

O'cmon, Bobby, lighten up, just a little hell humor for ya'.

Posted by: Satan at July 06, 2010 06:52 AM (t72+4)

23 "...... he'll let the late Senator spend eternity as a backup dancer for MC Hammer or Biggie Smalls." ------------ Not remotely enough punishment, it's a too perfect match. Rappers and Senator Byrd are the only people that can liberally use the "N" word and get a free pass. He would love it. I say make him a female puppet from Africa in the "It's a Small World Ride."

Posted by: FreakyBoy at July 06, 2010 06:54 AM (uKraB)

24 "The right opposes civil rights? " Yeah, man! Like that Nixon, man! He went and CREATED affirmative action man! To keep the brother DOWN, man! Uh, hold it...

Posted by: Progressive White Lib -- Oh, Crap... at July 06, 2010 06:54 AM (8aeOu)

25 "...He'll let the late Senator spend eternity bent over and pantsless in front of P. Diddy." FTFY

Posted by: Progressive White Lib -- Oh, Crap... at July 06, 2010 06:55 AM (8aeOu)

26

The man had a true sense of style and luxury. He always wore a 300 thread count sheet whenever he went on a lynching.

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 06:56 AM (t72+4)

27 MFM: It doesn't matter what the facts are. Byrd had only a brief affiliation with the Klan.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 06, 2010 06:57 AM (1Jaio)

28 Bill Clinton to publicly apologize to Trent Lott for praising Strom Thurmond in 3...2...1...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2010 06:59 AM (9Cooa)

29 Hey but as we have learned on multiple occasions, racism and sexism are forgivable offenses as long as the offender has a D next to their name. Besides as he MFM tells us, Byrd's only connection to the klan was eating at a Denny's one time when someone who was in the klan stopped in to use the john.

Posted by: Drew in MO at July 06, 2010 07:01 AM (bqKDG)

30

Its amazing how the MFM gives Byrd a pass on his so called "fleeting" association with the Klan, but let a Republican show up on the campus of Bob Jones University..................

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 07:01 AM (t72+4)

31 They are having his funeral today here in Arlington, Virginia.

And the temperature is going to be 102 this afternoon...

Coincidence? Or is it that the Gates of Hell are opening?

Posted by: Kasper Hauser at July 06, 2010 07:02 AM (HqpV0)

32
http://irelandsown.net/notredame.html

For your reading pleasure, including some dirty Scandi football coach and Klansmen getting beaten before being put back on trains home from South Bend.

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at July 06, 2010 07:03 AM (1hM1d)

You know, Russ, I'd like to joke about this too. But I can't.

Watching the scene in the Senate, with that disgusting racist cockholster lying in state - as though he contributed anything to the progress of this country other than shoving his overfatted snout in the public trough to hoover money out of my pocket and slap his name on anything in West Virginia that stood still long enough - and his "colleagues" praising his name to the skies infuriated me.

Not one GOP heavyweight had the balls to call Byrd out as the Klan bastard he was. Not one had the stones to protest the idolatry of his memorial. Not one could be bothered to say anything when the N-double-fucking-ACP (the same people who practically chained James Byrd to Dubya's pickup) praised this asshole as a "stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act."

And these dirtbags not only expect us to return them to office, most of them will be returned to office.

Like I told my wife this weekend - this country is dead. Let the Obastard finish it off. Any country whose "elected solons" cooperate in the erasure of Byrd's past in the name of their precious "collegiality" and "comity" and "bipartisanship" doesn't deserve to survive. Either hang them all. . .or admit the American Experiment is no more.

Posted by: Christopher at July 06, 2010 07:04 AM (zF6Iw)

34 Byrd would not have taken a cup of coffee from Joe DiMaggio. Not that he hated Dago Papists (he left all that behind in West Virginia after he got elected) but rather because it's very difficult to get a coffee stain off a white robe.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 06, 2010 07:05 AM (ktYjH)

35 They are having his funeral today here in Arlington, Virginia.

And the temperature is going to be 102 this afternoon...

Coincidence? Or is it that the Gates of Hell are opening?
Posted by: Kasper Hauser at July 06, 2010 11:02 AM

Day-um! That there casket gonna SPLODE in the heat.

Posted by: Wanna-be crazed sex poodle at July 06, 2010 07:08 AM (Ulu3i)

36

Byrd's favorite New York Yankee was Whitey Ford, everyone knows that.

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 07:09 AM (t72+4)

37 I seem to recollect ol' Bobby making reference to "white [insert n-word here]" within fairly recent memory. Reformed Klansman, my ever loving butt...

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Posted by: Eyehole Rims R Us at July 06, 2010 07:14 AM (jy5QA)

39 I seem to recollect ol' Bobby making reference to "white [insert n-word here]" within fairly recent memory. Reformed Klansman, my ever loving butt...

Posted by: Additional Blonde Agent at July 06, 2010 11:10 AM (PMGbu)

Right here, almost painful to watch. Most people that crashed and burned this badly would be shown the door, never to be heard from or seen from again, that is unless you have a (D) in front of your name.

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 07:15 AM (t72+4)

40 Bob Byrd loved dogs.
_{Hated blacks, browns, Asians, Jews, Catholics and foreigners, but loved dogs.}

Posted by: huerfano at July 06, 2010 07:16 AM (rqC5o)

41
I like Senator Byrd(D-KKK). He was a democrat.
After all, he did apologize.

Posted by: Chaarles Johnson at July 06, 2010 07:16 AM (0fzsA)

42 38 Couldn't have been Bill White.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2010 07:17 AM (9Cooa)

43 42 So did Hitler, especially the ones that were used on the aforementioned blacks, Jews, et al.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 06, 2010 07:18 AM (9Cooa)

44 There's an excellent, true Byrd obituary here.

"After Robert Carlyle Byrd died on Monday while trying to struggle through yet another record-breaking term in the U.S. Senate, the obituaries either ignored or downplayed what made him interesting, his egomania and his racism."

Posted by: andycanuck at July 06, 2010 07:18 AM (7b1Uc)

45
Bob Byrd loved dogs.
_{Hated blacks, browns, Asians, Jews,
Catholics and foreigners, but loved dogs.}

Posted by: huerfano at July 06, 2010 11:16 AM (rqC5o)

He's A Saint !

Posted by: PETA at July 06, 2010 07:19 AM (t72+4)

46 He's A Saint !

And biodegradable!

Posted by: ersta mahnn at July 06, 2010 07:20 AM (4WbTI)

47 Once upon a time, I graduated high school from Washington Irving, named for America's first genuine internationally best-selling author, who wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle. He popularized the nickname "Gotham" for New York City and coined the phrase "the almighty dollar." He was credited by Charles Dickens as having been an influence on his Christmas writings, including the classic A Christmas Carol. In fact, one of Irving's most lasting contributions to American culture is in the way Americans perceive and celebrate Christmas. In his 1812 revisions to A History of New York, Irving inserted a dream sequence featuring St. Nicholas soaring over treetops in a flying wagonÂ—a creation others would later dress up as Santa Claus. He was admired by his contemporaries, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Edgar Allen Poe (who griped that Irving was overrated), as well as European writers, including Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Thomas Campbell, Francis Jeffrey and (mentioned) Charles Dickens. Longfellow commemorated Irving and his grave in his 1876 poem, "In The Churchyard at Tarrytown", which concludes with:

How sweet a life was his; how sweet a death!
Living, to wing with mirth the weary hours,
Or with romantic tales the heart to cheer;
Dying, to leave a memory like the breath
Of summers full of sunshine and of showers,
A grief and gladness in the atmosphere.

This man was a minister to Spain, recommended by Daniel Webster to President John Tyler, who appointed him, and he assisted in negotiating the Anglo-American disagreement over the Oregon border that newly-elected President James Polk had promised to resolve. He was an executor of John Jacob Astor's estate and appointed, by Astor's will, as first chairman of the Astor library, a forerunner to the New York Public Library. The New York Knicks were named for him, as well as well as two streets in Bushwick, Irving and Knickerbocker Streets. His name is also frequently mentioned in Jospeh Heller's Catch-22 in a recurring theme where his name is signed by other people to documents which triggers several military investigations as to who Washington Irving is.

But none of this impressed pork baron, civil rights opponent and former KKK recruiter Robert C. Byrd, who changed the name of my school in the late 90's.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at July 06, 2010 07:21 AM (mHQ7T)

48 Hey! Is heaven supposed to be this hot?

Posted by: Robert ByrdBQ at July 06, 2010 07:22 AM (jAs+i)

Hey Lott, dont you feel stupid now for groveling? You (and every Repub) should have been the first to be in front of camera demanding every Dem be flogged for saying nice things about a KKK leader. Pussy.

Posted by: Schwalbe at July 06, 2010 07:24 AM (UU0OF)

50 29 SUCK IT, TROLL! YOU'VE BEEN REPLICATED.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at July 06, 2010 07:26 AM (mHQ7T)

51 I remember a MSM exposÃ© many years ago. A bunch of senators went down to the islands on "official business" or some kinda "fact finding tour". Anyway, they didn't realize the tourist cameras were really news cameras and they were all caught on camera being wined and dined by lobbyists, drinking heavily with their wives and girlfriends, passed out on the beach at a megaexpensive resort and surprise surprise: none of them attended the "official functions". When they got back a reporter ambushed Byrd with the video and asked him how he could justify such behavior; Byrd sputtered and stuttered and the turned red and started shouting that he was "a United States senator" and "how dare" this reporter confront him. Man of the People my ass. He was an arrogant prick and a bloated leech on the Republic. Good riddance and I think he will be shocked to find that neither God nor Lucifer will care that he was a senator.

Posted by: er at July 06, 2010 07:31 AM (pDP4H)

52 Bob Byrd loved dogs.
_{Hated blacks, browns, Asians, Jews,
Catholics and foreigners, but loved dogs.}

Posted by: huerfano at July 06, 2010 11:16 AM (rqC5o)

I'm surprised he didn't pick up his prized copy of the U.S. Constitution he was famous for always keeping on his person and start quoting the part where it says all men & dogs are created equal........

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 07:35 AM (t72+4)

53 42 Well, every Klansman has a particular affinity for their favorite bloodhound, or so I've heard.

Posted by: unknown jane at July 06, 2010 08:05 AM (5/yRG)

54

Also concerning Byrd's "white n***ers" video above, if his trainer would have just stepped in around the :50 second mark and tranquilized him, all of that embarrassment could have been avoided.

He should have known something was getting ready to go awry when Byrd all of a sudden got that glazed over look in his eye. Clearly not a professional.

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 08:16 AM (t72+4)

55 Byrd's favorite New York Yankee was Whitey Ford, everyone knows that.

Byrd's favorite restaurants were the Cracker Barrel, and Sambo's.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 06, 2010 08:24 AM (P9+0W)

56 Day-um! That there casket gonna SPLODE in the heat.

Posted by: Wanna-be crazed sex poodle at July 06, 2010 11:08 AM (Ulu3i)

and hes been dead for awhile now............ this want be good.

Posted by: Racefan at July 06, 2010 08:24 AM (7pFwe)

Byrd's fav political party was the Democratic Party.

Just want to make that fact clear.

Posted by: torabora at July 06, 2010 08:26 AM (3L3P5)

58 Remembering him solely as an old man who was WAY too comfortable using "the N-word" on camera is selling him short. It would be like remembering Joe DiMaggio only as the guy from the Mr. Coffee commercials.

I have a good idea, how about we don't remember him at all.

Posted by: Vic at July 06, 2010 08:40 AM (/jbAw)

59 From the National Post article:

"In 1964, aged 47, he tried his best to defeat the Civil Rights Act by filibuster, speaking continuously for 14 hours. He opposed the 1965 Voting Rights Act and its renewal in 1970, arguing, of course, on purely constitutional grounds. He further distinguished himself as the only senator who voted against the confirmation of both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas. One was a highly experienced liberal, the other an inexperienced conservative. All they had in common was skin colour [sic]."

Enough said.

Posted by: baldilocks at July 06, 2010 08:58 AM (7qrAO)

60 Hey. I need a backup dancer. I guess this guy fits the bill.

Posted by: Robert van Winkle at July 06, 2010 09:24 AM (jj+gP)

Dead thread, but...

41 - Right here, almost painful to watch.

At the one minute mark, he says: "My old mom told me, Robert, you can't go to heaven of you hate anybody."

That would be his old mom who died when he was one year old (if that) according to wikipedia.

Posted by: Black Mamba at July 06, 2010 10:46 AM (tSxym)

62 When I heard they laid his body in state in the Senate, I thought... so what? He's been lying in the Senate for over 50 years.

Posted by: theCork at July 06, 2010 12:26 PM (zL5Q1)

At the one minute mark, he says: "My old mom told me, Robert, you can't go to heaven of you hate anybody."

That would be his old mom who died when he was one year old (if that) according to wikipedia.

Posted by: Black Mamba at July 06, 2010 02:46 PM (tSxym)

Maybe he was talking about his old mammy ?

*rimshot*

Posted by: Blazer at July 06, 2010 12:29 PM (t72+4)

64 As a distant cousin to the good senator, all I can say is: Good riddance you arrogant racist, homophobic old coot. It should have happened far sooner.

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