DEAD
Another conservative asshole kept alive well beyond his sell-by date courtesy of your tax dollars is gone - Jesse Helms has expired. He was 86. Let's recap:
In both 1990 and 1996, Helms won against Harvey Gantt, the former mayor of Charlotte. Both campaigns attracted major national attention not only because of Helms' national prominence and controversial positions on many issues, but also because Gantt was an African-American whose liberal political views provided a stark contrast to Helms. Helms' 1990 victory has been partially credited to a late-running television commercial that urged white voters to reject Gantt because of the Democratic candidate's support for affirmative action programs. The ad showed a white man's hands ripping up a rejection notice from a company that had not hired him due to affirmative action policies that had given the job to "less qualified minority". It was criticized for its perceived subliminal content; As the hands crumple it up, for a fraction of a second the letter fades to a picture of Mr.Gant and the hands appear to be crushing his head. The advert was produced by Alex Castellanos, who would in 2000 again come under fire for making an Bush campagin advert criticizing Al Gore's healthcare policies and flashing the word 'RATS' over the top of it. [1]
And guess what cocksucker was also involved?
The ad was the brainchild of Dick Morris, who in the 1990s would become a key political adviser to President Bill Clinton. Helms won the 1990 election by 1,087,331 votes (52.5 percent) to Gantt's 981,573 (47.4 percent). In his 1990 victory statement, Helms mocked the major North Carolina newspapers for their unhappiness over his victory, quoting a line from "Casey at the Bat": "There's no joy in Mudville tonight."
We are governed by the worst elements of society.
And shit - we'll probably wind up paying for some of the funeral too! Watch for him lying in state in the Senate and a bunch of weepy tributes by cowed Democrats afraid to tell the fucking truth.
And watch for the wingnuts to make a big deal of the fact that he managed to die on July 4th (as did Adams and Jefferson).
Dead! Dead! Dead! Best news all week.
Posted by: mandt | July 04, 2008 at 12:41 PM
What would be a good use of public funds is to pull the plug on this putrid blog.
Posted by: rj | July 04, 2008 at 02:48 PM
Oh look! A rarely seen these days troll!
I wish the Democraps would break with the tradition of not speaking ill of the dead and state what a racist bastard Helms was, instead of beatifying him.
Posted by: Lew Scannon | July 04, 2008 at 03:13 PM
Actually, Lew, you're just excited to have any traffic at all.
Posted by: rj | July 04, 2008 at 03:18 PM
Absolutely, rj! Lew "Left on red from the center lane" Scannon lives for traffic. Why, just the other day, Lew "LORFTCL" Scannon says to me - he says - "Ta, without my lawnchair and the turnpike, I don't know what I'd do, but I'm sure it'd involve voilet gum and a Shriners convention."
Shove it, rj. Another bigoted relic joins his ancestors under the dirt. May he go in peace - so long as he keeps on going.
Posted by: Tata | July 04, 2008 at 06:58 PM
When he was alive, I referred to him as a wall-eyed, racist pig.
Now he's dead, and I'm not supposed to say that.
Fuck him.
He was a wall-eyed, racist pig.
Posted by: Marcus Aurelius | July 04, 2008 at 08:29 PM
Pak sand liberals... if that isn't clear enuff stick it up your candy ass~
Posted by: Hunter | November 16, 2008 at 09:32 PM