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[Owlman]

From truth checker site, snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/

Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and helped establish the hate group's chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. However, in 1952 Byrd avowed that "After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization," and throughout his long political career (he served for 57 years in the United States Congress) he repeatedly apologized for his involvement with the KKK:
"I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."

Although this image was used to criticize the media for ignoring Hillary Clinton's connection to former KKK member Robert Byrd while simultaneously playing up Donald Trump's comments regarding former Klan member David Duke, several factors made the latter much more newsworthy in early 2016

First of all, Trump declined to condemn Duke and the Ku Klux Klan in February 2016, making the story current and newsworthy, while photograph of Hillary Clinton was taken more than a decade ago. The lack of current coverage isn't because the print media are ignoring the association, but because the photograph is a several-year-old story.

Second, while David Duke is no longer a member of the Ku Klux Klan, he is still an active member of another white supremacist organization, NAAWP: the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Duke, a prominent Holocaust denier (although he describes himself as a "Holocaust exposer"), also has a more-than-passing interest in politics: the former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives has run for the U.S. Senate, governor of Louisiana, and President of the United States. Duke has spent his life founding and supporting various white nationalist and white supremacist groups, while Byrd, by contrast, spent the majority of his life publicly disavowing and repeatedly apologizing for his early KKK affiliation.

[Owlman]

By the way, Robert wasn't a ex-grand wizard. He was an ex-"exalted Cyclops."

[Johnette's Daddy]

By the way, Robert wasn't a ex-grand wizard. He was an ex-"exalted Cyclops."

So Byrd spends the past 64 years apologizing for his involvement in the Klan and the RWNJ equates him with the current race-baiters who back Trump?

F-A-L-S-E E-Q-U-I-V-A-L-E-N-C-E

[Jungle Rat]

I beat off to her back in the day

[hedge]

To Robert Byrd?

[Professor Tiger]

When did Byrd use the term "white niggers"? Was that in the 40's?

And how many racist things has Joe Biden said, recently, but all you get is a wink and a nod and "That's just Joe."'

You liberals have one standard for yelling "racist!" with Republicans and a completely different standard for your fellow Democrats.

[Professor Tiger]

When did Byrd filibuster the Civil Rights Act? Was that in the '40's?

When did Byrd vote against Thurgood Marshall for SCOTUS? Was that in the 40's too?

Good thing y'all aren't Trent Lott. Y'all are saying nice things about Byrd, but Lott got run out of Washington for saying nice things about a Byrd-like Senator (Strom Thurmond') on the geezer's 90-something birthday.

More liberal double standards of crying racism.

[10ac]

When he use the term "white nigger" what traits was he referring to?

[Professor Tiger]

He was just being sneaky.

[hedge]

"More liberal double standards of crying racism."

And you're crying about that, so we're even...

[bluetick]

I had an uncle who was a yellow dog democrat and he used the N word around my kids until my wife told him to zip it or else. Uncle Clarence and Robert Byrd, dem racists.

Nevertheless, black voters are going with Hillary 9 out of 10. So there y'are. Youse conservatives.

[Professor Tiger]

As I've said before, 95% of black voters would vote for a Democrat (any Democrat) if he/she had unleashed fire hoses and German shepherds on an NAACP convention.

Likewise, Dem's will vote Hillary into the White House if those 15k+ newly discovered emails showed Hillary was selling the real-time locations of all US submarines in the Pacific to Kim Jong Un in return for a billion dollar contribution to the Clinton Global Initiative.

[hedge]

Bob Dole's wife was the head of the Red Cross when he was the Senate majority leader...

[Professor Tiger]

Bob Dole wears depends.

[Jungle Rat]

So does your mom

[Johnette's Daddy]

When did Byrd filibuster the Civil Rights Act? Was that in the '40's?

When did Byrd vote against Thurgood Marshall for SCOTUS? Was that in the 40's too?

52 and 49 years ago, respectively.

[Owlman]

When did Byrd filibuster the Civil Rights Act? Was that in the '40's?

When did Byrd vote against Thurgood Marshall for SCOTUS? Was that in the 40's too?

Good thing y'all aren't Trent Lott. Y'all are saying nice things about Byrd, but Lott got run out of Washington for saying nice things about a Byrd-like Senator (Strom Thurmond') on the geezer's 90-something birthday.

More liberal double standards of crying racism.

Republicans turned on Lott. Dems couldn't get rid of him as the lead Republican, only Republicans could do that. Liberals didn't change their opinions of him.

[Owlman]

Likewise, Dem's will vote Hillary into the White House if those 15k+ newly discovered emails showed Hillary was selling the real-time locations of all US submarines in the Pacific to Kim Jong Un in return for a billion dollar contribution to the Clinton Global Initiative.

possible. but fortunately for the Dems this year, it's more likely that giving away locations of US subs is more likely something Trump would do. Especially to Putin.

[Professor Tiger]

When did Byrd filibuster the Civil Rights Act? Was that in the '40's?

When did Byrd vote against Thurgood Marshall for SCOTUS? Was that in the 40's too?

52 and 49 years ago, respectively.

Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act in '64. He was elected by his fellow Democrats as Majority Whip in '71 - only S-E-V-E-N years later. That's a pretty short time in the penalty box for a former Grand Cyclops of the KKK. Unless you're a Democrat.

[bluetick]

And..and.. Lincoln freed the slaves too!