Farewell to Jesse Helms, a Provincial Redneck »

Posted By Neophile 12 months ago in News

It seemed somehow profane that Sen. Jesse Helms should have managed to depart this life on the 232nd anniversary of the declaration of American independence. One doesn't want the occasion sullied by the obsequies for a senile racist buffoon.

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    NoSpinDave12 months ago

    More left wing extremist hate speach from Neo.

    SINK

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    cptnkrk12 months ago

    I was a little suprised to see something like this so quickly.

    Usually people wait a week or so to pile on this kind of hate this thick.

    More compassion from the Left?

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    slate12 months ago

    What do you expect from the beanie cap scout from the frozen north, you'd think the wind from that propeller on his cap would have thawed the permafrost that he calls a brain?

    Hey Neo, I bet you'll believe in Gawd long enough to wish Helms a place in Hell huh? PMNLOL!

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      Georgia5012 months ago

      Liberals can't get over the key role played by Jesse Helms in turning the tide for Reagan in the 1979 North Carolina primaries.

      Completely out-maneuvered by...what's their word? Redneck? Ya gotta love it.

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      scott426112 months ago

      I have always stated that I will not speak ill of the dead. I made an exception for Jerry Falwell and I am making another for Jesse Helms. IMO, neither made a positive contribution to the world. Indeed, they were two faces of hate to millions of Americans. If there is a Hell, Jerry and Jesse are burning in it!

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        antibrainwasher12 months ago

        Jesus hated blacks. Jesus supported the status quo jim crow system suppressing civil rights, gerrymandering so black votes were meaningless. Jesus believed a black child should ride on the back of a bus, jesus never ate in a restaurant where blacks ate, and if a black swam in a pool, jesus had it drained. Jesus loved Jesse, cause jesus was a white southern man.

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          antibrainwasher12 months ago

          Having attempted, and failed, to block passage of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Care (CARE) Act passed in 1990, Helms tried to block its refunding in 1995, saying that those with AIDS were responsible for the disease, because they had contracted it because of their "deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct", and falsely claiming that more federal dollars were spent on AIDS than heart disease or cancer. [27] His opposition to the spending was consonant with his long term anti-gay rhetoric and opposition to civil rights for gay men and women generally. Helms had declared homosexuality "degenerate," and homosexuals "weak, morally sick wretches."

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            antibrainwasher12 months ago

            Helms once deeply offended a black colleague, Democratic Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois, by singing part of "Dixie" on a Capitol elevator.

            Soon after the Senate vote on the Confederate flag insignia, Sen. Jesse Helms (R.-N.C.) ran into Mosely-Braun in a Capitol elevator. Helms turned to his friend, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah), and said, "Watch me make her cry. I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing 'Dixie' until she cries." He then proceeded to sing the song about "the good life" during slavery to Mosely-Braun (Gannett News Service, 1993-09-02; Time, 1993-08-16)

            Jesse Helms was a great republican. Vote republican, vote to bring a heaping dose of hateful status quo ignorance to policy making positions.

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            Charlson12 months ago

            I, for one, will shed no tears for an evil, provincial redneck.

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            Georgia5012 months ago

            Gee. The way liberals describe Jesse Helms, one would think in his childhood, his family ate in posh restaurants while the black maid sat outside in a hot, steamy car.

            You know...the way Al Gore's family did.

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              Carolinajoe11 months, 3 weeks ago

              Helms dared speak the truth to the homosexual pedophiles and the race baiters that litters the landscape...this is why he was hated so.

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