Well Clinton babbled about Robert “KKK” Byrd the other day and in a effort to rewrite history Clinton said…
CLINTON: There are a lot of people who wrote these eulogies for Senator Byrd in the newspapers, and I read a bunch of them, and they mentioned that he once had a fleeting association with the Klu (sic) Klux Klan and what does that mean. I’ll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and the hollows of West Virginia. He was trying to get elected, and maybe he did something he shouldn’t have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up — and that’s what a good person does.
AUDIENCE: (applauding)
CLINTON: There are no perfect people! There are certainly no perfect politicians.
Pant’s on fire lie…
1.) Robert “KKK” Byrd was once an Exalted Cyclops for the Klan which is a recruiter.
2.) Robert “KKK” Byrd formed a KKK chapter – not exactly a fleeting association. He formed his chapter in 1943. He was still writing about the “vital need” for the Klan in 1946.
3.) Opposed every civil rights movement. Senator Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1965.
4.) Voted against Thurgood Marshall.
5.) Voted against Clarence Thomas. Byrd opposed Clarence Thomas because Byrd stated he was offended by Thomas’ use of the phrase “high-tech lynching” of uppity blacks in his defense.
6.) Robert Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, 1944, “I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather, I should die a thousand times, see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.”
7.) In 1946 or ’47 Byrd wrote a letter to the Grand Wizard of the Klan saying, “The Klan is needed today as never before. I’m anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state of the nation.”
8.)Byrd also opposed some of George W. Bush’s judicial and cabinet nominees who were black, notably, Janice Rogers Brown for judge of the US Court of Appeals DC district. He opposed Condoleezza Rice for secretary of state.
Yep and Clinton calls that “fleeting” but after all Bill Clinton said he joined the KKK because he was trying to get elected in West Virgina – one can only guess that everyone or at least the majority of West Virginians are Klan members according to Bill Clinton…. if not, then racist at the very least. But that’s typical of a Democrat to try an justify Byrd’s racism with alleged racism of others.
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Now Obama is trying to turn the Statue of Liberty into the Statue of Immigration
The Statue of Liberty which is actually entitled “Liberty Enlightening the World” the poem which was donated to help fund the building of the pedestal only.
Dopey said… (and El Rushbo says it best so without permission I’ll post his take on Obama’s dribble.)
OBAMA: A young woman named Emma Lazarus, whose own family fled persecution from Europe generations earlier took up the cause of these new immigrants.
RUSH: She did not.
OBAMA: Although she was a poet, she spent much of her time advocating for better health care, housing for the newcomers.
RUSH: That’s a crock.
OBAMA: And inspired by what she saw and heard she wrote down her thoughts and donated a piece of work to help pay for the construction of a new statue.
RUSH: Wrong.
OBAMA: The Statue of Liberty.
RUSH: Wrong.
OBAMA: Which actually was funded in part by small donations from people across America.
RUSH: Stop the tape right there. She entered a contest. She wrote a poem. The contest was to raise money to pay for the PEDESTAL, not the statue. She was not inspired by immigrants. The Statue of Liberty had nothing to do with immigration. The Statue of Liberty is not on the Arizona-Mexico border. It is not the Statue of Immigration. It was not constructed to show the way to the United States for the huddled masses, the tired, the poor, the hungry, the thirsty. Emma Lazarus’ poem had nothing to do with the construction of the statue. It’s not even posted on the statue. It’s posted on the pedestal inside, and it took years and years and years for that to happen after her poem was chosen in the contest.
OBAMA: Years before the statue was built, years before it would be seen by throngs of immigrants craning their necks skyward at the end of a long and brutal voyage, years before it would come to symbolize everything that we cherish, she imagined what it could mean. She imagined the site of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation. But unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire. Instead, it would signal one’s arrival to a place of opportunity and refuge –
RUSH: All right, hold it, hold it. Hold it right here, right here. In the first place, I misspoke. It was not a contest. She donated the poem as a work of art, but the Statue of Liberty was built by the French, a French person in the 1800s, as a gift to celebrate our Declaration of Independence. It had nothing to do with immigration. The lore of the Statue of Liberty is that after in the early 1900s when people were fleeing oppression (not poverty per se, but fleeing oppression) they had to go through Ellis Island. That was the law. They had to go through. Well, to get to Ellis Island you had to go by the Statue of Liberty and people saw it, and so the transformation of what the statue meant began. “Yeah, lookie there! Lookie there, Mabel. Why, it’s a beacon on all the immigrants around the world who come to America. Look at that, Emma. Why, how about that?” Nope. The original intent… (chuckles) Are we allowed to talk about the original intent? The original intent Statue of Liberty was to light the way of liberty for the rest of the world. Obama seems to think the only thing worth cherishing about America is that everybody can live here. I’ve never heard him be more impassioned about this country than talking about the fact that everybody can move here because the Statue of Liberty is the invitation. Let’s go to the phones. I’ve had my piece about this. This is how the whole thing was distorted today and how it continues to be distorted by the left.
Obama even blew one of the lines in the poem, but not only did he blow it the White House blew too as the same screw up is on the White House website.
Dopey said…
“Give me your tired, and your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
This is wrong it actually says…
“Give me your tired, and your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
It’s “breath free” not “be free”, dumbass – perhaps the White house morons that write these far to long babbling bullshit speeches of his could start fact checking them – do they not have access to the National Archives? Or more than likely they think they can get away with misquoting it and never get called on it – Obama seems to think or he wants you to think that the Statue of Liberty is about immigration – it’s not and Obama would do well to read a little American history.
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Gaffetastic. Obama Blows Line From Statue of Liberty in Immigration Address — It’s Even Wrong on the White House Website!
