ROBERT BYRD: ANOTHER (GREAT?) DEMOCRAT PRAISED BY THE LIBERAL MEDIA

Like when Ted Kennedy went to his final reward to be re-united with his great love, Mary Jo Kophecne, who he valiantly tried to save from drowning while fighting off his own drunken stupor, the media has been fawning all over themselves over how great Robert C. Byrd was as a strong voice for the Democratic ideals.

However, most of the bullsh*t they put forth eulogizing the greatness of this Democratic leader failed to mention what a strong voice he was for segregation.  Hmmmm, that's strange!  I wonder why?

Well perhaps because of the time he spent as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.  Well not just a member...but one of the leaders in his local chapter...a Kleagle!  And then he was elevated to the top rank of Exalted Cyclops.

Of course, like all great Democrats, he lied and said that in 1943 he quit the clan and had nothing more to do with them.  But sometime later it was reported that he wrote a letter to the
grand Wizard in which he reportedly stated:  "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see it's relocation here in West Virginia."

In 2005 he wrote in his memoirs that the KKK was just a fraternity of "upstanding people."  Well maybe they were when they weren't busy stringing Negroes up on hanging trees.

In addition to his grand accomplishments as a KKK leader,  he took his prejudices to the Senate floor.  He was the only Senator to vote against two Black Supreme Court nominees:  Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas.

It turns out he was such a dedicated segregationist that in 1964 he led a filibuster against the passage of the Civil Rights Act!  What a guy!  Then he went on to oppose the integration of the U.S. Armed Forces and was quoted as saying that he would never fight in a war with a Negro by his side.

He once called Martin Luther King a "self-seeking, rabble rouser" and he told the FBI that he would give a speech condemning MLK on the Senate floor...further saying "...it was time this civil rights leader met his Waterloo."

Oh, and did I mention that he once said that the words in the Constitution "that all men are created equal" should not be taken literally!

Robert C. Byrd was a strong opponent of Civil Rights...and he was a bigot and a racist and he should be recognized as such in any of the glowing eulogies being put forth by the liberal media.  They would just love for us to forget about his real past, and remember him...as they tried to do for Ted Kennedy...as another Mother Theresa.
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