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Pop quiz: Which Philadelphia newspaper eulogized Jesse Helms positively in its current edition? If you said the Northeast Times, you already knew you were right.
Northeast Philly residents might not want to admit it, but many were probably saddened to hear that Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina, died on the Fourth of July.
The archconservative senator was long branded a racist by many liberals because he dared to oppose efforts to make Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday, but the truth is, Mr. Helms was no racist. He helped the people of the Tar Heel State regardless of race. He also spoke and voted his heart. If only more politicians would do that, what a wonderful country this might be.
I don’t know about you, but my favorite part is “Northeast Philly residents might not want to admit it.”
They deserve it [Northeast Times]
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He just died, I thought he died years ago and Hell had claimed him?
The Northeast Times certainly has my number. That’s the only reason I call Helms a racist, because of the MLK holiday.
Has nothing at all to do with, say, his opposition to the Civil Rights Act, his explicitly racist campaign commercials, his support of other explicitly segregationist politicians, and quotes like:
“The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.”
It has nothing to do with the time he sang “Dixie” in a Capital elevator in an attempt, by his own account, to make his colleague, Carol Mosley-Braun, cry.
Aren’t I a silly liberal?
I am disappointed that I never got to stomp that worthless scumbag in the chest, so I guess that might count as “sad he’s dead.” I think it’s grossly unfair that he died quietly in his own bed instead of dying from a heart attack while being gang-raped by giant black transvestites in some filthy Third World prison, so I guess that might count as “sad he’s dead.” Maybe the NE Times has me pegged after all?
I am disappointed that I never got to stomp that worthless scumbag in the chest, so I guess that might count as “sad he’s dead.” I think it’s grossly unfair that he died quietly in his own bed instead of dying from a heart attack while being gang-raped by giant black transvestites in some filthy Third World prison, so I guess that might count as “sad he’s dead.” Maybe the NE Times has me pegged after all?
Rest in peace Jesse:
http://www.comicssherpa.com/site/feature?uc_comic=cszpe&uc_full_date=20080704
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