Jesse Helms: Still Dead, But Look Around You...

...because his legacy is everywhere.

Hated gays? Check.

Hated minorities?  Check.

Hated affirmative action?  Check.

Hated women?  Check.

Loved prayer in school?  Check.

Loved that schweet, schweet tobacco money?  Check.

Loved that Confederate flag?  Check.

From 40 years ago this June, here is Ronald Reagan heaping praise on the degenerate old bigot for, among other things, saving his campaign from complete disaster in 1976, and helping him win in 1980.

And from 30 years ago this week, this L.A. Times article dated,  August 6, 1993.  

Helms Sings a Song of ‘Dixie’; Moseley-Braun Looks Away

The way Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun relates the story, Sen. Jesse Helms entered the Senate elevator, saw her, and began singing, “I wish I was in the land of cotton. . . . “

Helms, a Republican from North Carolina, recalled his brief encounter with the Senate’s only black member differently and described it as “a good-natured exchange,” an aide said.

Moseley-Braun, a Democrat from Illinois, told the story at the National Urban League annual dinner Wednesday night, about two weeks after another tangle with Helms in which she defeated his move to renew a patent on the Confederate flag insignia.

The incident happened Tuesday, she said. When Helms stepped into the elevator, “he saw me standing there, and he started to sing, ‘I wish I was in the land of cotton . . . ‘ And he looked at Sen. Hatch and said, ‘I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing ‘Dixie’ until she cries.’

See, now I'm all confused?  Because wasn't this during the Before Time when the GOP definitely wasn't racist and everybody was all cozy and bipartisan and shit?

I Am The Liberal Media

It Just Gets Better and Better

Allow me to remind our Beltway media once again that as long as refuse to use the special glasses they will never understand how completely predictable it was that the Republican campaign for president would come to this.

From Politico:

David Duke defends Trump, blames Jews for judge criticism

By NICK GASS 06/09/16 11:52 AM EDT

Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke defended Donald Trump on his radio show earlier this week from criticism of his comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel, blaming "the Jews" in the media for propagating a long-running negative agenda against the presumptive Republican nominee.

The white supremacist radio host dropped the names of Fox News' Chris Wallace, along with Jake Tapper and Wolf Blitzer on CNN, who Duke said he had "exposed ... as a Jewish agent." Jeff Zucker, the current president of CNN Worldwide, is "another Jewish extremist," he remarked.

“And more recently, Fox News, the shabbat goy shiksa Megyn Kelly, 'cause they love to have some gentiles doing it," Duke continued, according to audio of the segment Tuesday. "They don’t want Jews always out front.”

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Conservatism?

You're soaking in it!

Just Another Day at the NRO

Shooting the breeze with imaginary long-dead colleagues.



 Attending sensitivity training.

 

And seeing (Liberal) Hitler around every corner.



 From Media Matters:

UPDATED: National Review Drops Writer For Speaking At "White Supremacist" Conference

National Review, which recently severed its relationship with writer John Derbyshire for a column in which he advised parents to teach their children to be wary of blacks, has another contributor who may draw similar scrutiny.

In March, National Review Online contributor Robert Weissberg spoke at the annual conference of the magazine American Renaissance, described as a "white supremacist journal" by the Anti-Defamation League. Reportedly proposing "A Politically Viable Alternative to White Nationalism," Weissberg described to the audience of 150 an "enclave" solution in which zoning laws and other methods could be used to create "Whitopias" in America.

Weissberg, an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois, is a regular contributor to National Review Online, having written 10 posts for its Phi Beta Con blog on education, the most recent coming within the last week.

During his speech at the conference, Weissberg discussed how to keep "Whitopias" white and the positives of "maintaining whiteness," according to the American Renaissance website:

Prof. Weissberg argued that an "80 percent solution" would be one that enforced the "First-World" standards of excellence and hard work that attract and reward whites. He pointed out that there are still many "Whitopias" in America and that there are many ways to keep them white, such as zoning that requires large houses, and a cultural ambiance or classical music and refined demeanor that repels undesirables. This approach to maintaining whiteness has the advantage that people can make a living catering to whites in their enclaves.

Prof. Weissberg went on to argue that liberals are beyond reason when it comes to race, that explaining the facts of IQ or the necessity of racial consciousness for whites "is like trying to explain to an eight-year-old why sex is more fun than chocolate ice cream."

Other speakers at the conference include James Edwards, known for his "pro-white" radio show, Political Cesspool, and the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the white nationalist American Third Position party, Mervin Miller and Virginia Abernathy.
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UPDATE: In a post last night at NRO, Rich Lowry announced that Weissberg "will no longer be posting" at National Review due to his appearance at the American Renaissance conference:

Unbeknowst to us, occasional Phi Beta Cons contributor Robert Weissberg (whose book was published a few years ago by Transaction) participated in an American Renaissance conference where he delivered a noxious talk about the future of white nationalism. He will no longer be posting here. Thanks to those who brought it to our attention.

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