Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda

Another Dead Kennedy

And so the weekend long memorial begins...

• Body will lie in repose Thursday and Friday at library in Boston, Massachusetts
  
• President Obama, three former presidents to attend funeral
  
• Sen. Ted Kennedy's funeral will be Saturday at Boston's Mission Church
  
• Massachusetts service will precede burial in Arlington National Cemetery

In addition, Senator Kennedy's coffin will be paraded from Boston to Washington D.C. by horse-drawn carriage flanked by a troupe of Franciscan nuns and Haitian orphans singing Danny Boy. 

The only question is...will the funeral take after Reagan or Wellstone?

Lest We Forget

Sociopath:

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, 9/2/93; Time, 8/16/93)

And that’s what I like about the South!  Here’s more:

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?