Could the anti-Byrd attacks be any more hypocritical??

[Bleacher Creature]

I swear that I've seen no fewer than 10 links to stories about his KKK membership 50 years ago -- i.e. Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc. At this point, I know that I shouldn't be surprised, but come on!! First off, he's apologized many times before. Second, where were all of the right-wingers, corporate-media whores, et. al when Strom Thurmond was giving a half-hearted apology, or when Jesse Helms (just a few weeks ago) refused to show any sense of regret.

Look, being a member of the KKK -- regardless of what the reason -- is a mark that a person can never, and should never fully be able to live down. But this crap with Byrd is just getting ridiculous.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. They devoted a block of call-in time on C-SPAN......

this morning to Byrd's KKK roots! One repuke made mention of the notion that Democrats are keeping African-Americans enslaved through social programs.

I guess the repukes are trying to get Dems in Byrd's state to turn on him, but it's a well-known fact about Byrd's KKK roots (isn't it?), much like Mary Cheney's being a lesbian.

[Touchdown]

4. Easy "shut up!" on that meme.

"Democrats keep African Americans enslaved through social programs."

Answer... "So, only African Americans benefit from social programs? Is that why you want to get rid of them? My, how bigotted can a person get?"

[BattyDem]

2. Byrd held those beliefs 50 years ago and he has apologized many times ...

Many Repugs still hold those beliefs to this day and offer half-hearted apologies only when they are forced to.

That's the main difference between most Dems and most Repugs:

Dems are able to grow, learn and acknowledge when they are wrong. Repugs are stagnant.

[ET Awful]

3. As I said earlier, regardless of his past, Byrds was one name that

wasn't on the "nay" list for a senate resolution apologizing for inaction on anti-lynching laws.

In fact, I believe he voted yes on apologizing, unlike 20 of his Republican counterparts.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

5. they have no prob with lott writing columns for a white supremicist

magazine put out by the CCC, something he tried to deny, but he was doing it well into the 90s.

the media is guning for byrd. here in wv, they're going out of their way to smear him and replace him with shelley moore capito, one of tom delay's top bootlickers (THE #2 RECIPIENT OF HIS DIRTY CAMPAIGN MONEY)

[theboss]

6. Byrd made this fair game again with his book

These stories are triggered by Byrd's new book. They are not generated out of thin air.

And - as someone who knows and has voted for Byrd - I'm a little disturb by how genuinely fool of crap he appears in retelling the story of this part of his life. It's clear that he is cutting off his involvement at least a year too early. And his notion that it was just local "elits" in a social club does not work for me.