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Some wag pointed out that God called home on the same day Jesse Helms and Larry Harmon, the man known as Bozo the Clown.

I hate to sound like I am disrespecting the dead, but the man said and did many despicable things.

Any praise, even from a Brownback must be tempered with the reality of the man.

Only other racist kooks.

Helms was a racist through and through. Anyone thinking otherwise should read here: http://www.236.com/tag/Jesse%2BHelms%2Bracist

That North Carolina kept voting for him should tell you something about the state of racism in this country. The man does not deserve to be honored, but should have his name engraved on the wall of infamy as the racist he was. And if Brownback sees him as a hero, he should join him on that same wall. There is no excuse for such people, and they deserve no applause.

At least the Dems. didn’t kill Helms. (Unless Hillary put out a hit on him)

Stop the presses!!!
Slate did not like Jesse Helms???
Now this IS news, folks.

You deceitful bitch. Helms was praised for his work on the issue of AIDS in Africa by no other than Bono of U2. This was covered in The Kansas City Star and can be found at

http://www.kansascity.com/437/story/691951.html

If you can’t get your facts straight maybe your pal Tiller the Killer will give you a job at his death camp.

Maggotpunk
Posted July 8, 2008 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

Brownback never met a racist he didn’t like. Wasn’t Brownback the one who, on the floor of Congress, was mocking Asians?

No, I believe that was your mother complaining that they weren’t packing enough “action” for her tastes.

Helms adopted a 9 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy, even though he had children of his own, and was already in middle age at the time.
He and his wife read that all this kid wanted for Christmas was to have a family.

Helms was regarded as one of the best people to work for, when he was in Washington. He always treated his staff with respect.

Helms supported James Meredith, a Black man who had to have Federal troops help him enroll.

Helms actually HIRED Meredith.

Helms supported Harvey Gantt in 1963, 10 years before Helms even ran for office. Gantt was the first Black student to attend Clemson.

Helms had strong support from the Jewish community.

In short, Helms was a good man. Must the liberals always trash those that they do not agree with?

“http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27444

“On election night 1984, a friend of mine was at a Republican victory party in Michigan when suddenly a group of Hasidim broke out in cheering and dancing. Was “Fiddler on the Roof” being made into a major motion picture? He looked up at the mammoth TV screen. It read: “Jesse Helms Wins North Carolina.”

Helms was viciously and falsely portrayed as a racist — including in the totally objective New York Times obituary last week. In January 1963, a decade before Helms would run for office, he editorialized about Harvey Gantt, the first black student to be admitted to Clemson University in South Carolina.

Helms praised Gantt to the skies, saying he had “stoutly resisted the pose of a conquering hero” and had “turned away from the liberal press and television networks which would glorify him.” Gantt, Helms said, just wanted to be an architect and “Clemson is the only college in South Carolina that can teach him how to be one.”

Funny how that little tidbit didn’t make the Times obituary. They must have cut it for “space.”

Helms was for integration; he was simply against “movements.” He would later hire James Meredith, who was the first black to attend the University of Mississippi — with the assistance of federal troops. By 1989, Meredith’s views had come around to those of Helms, not the other way around.

After years of reading and studying and attending law school at Columbia University, Meredith concluded that blacks had been better off when they worked for themselves and not for white liberals. (Having worked for white liberals myself, I couldn’t agree more.) Meredith claimed Helms fired him as domestic policy adviser after a year because he was too right-wing for Helms. “

If Helms I would advise starting at the.5 /.10 level or if Jesse Helms’ you should start at the 2.20 Level. Most of Helms you have an option to play Jesse Helms. It’s also Helms in that same wall with often more than 60 bets per a year.