Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 07/04/2008 - YouTube
Jesse Helms' infamous thirty second commercial showing a pair of white hands crumpling a job rejection letter as a narrator says: "You needed tha...
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 07/04/2008
Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican known as “Senator No,” died today at the age of 86. Helms left the Senate in 2003 after serving five terms. The Heritage Foundation credits Helms with establishing “the conservative movement and became a powerful voice for free markets and free people.” During his political career, Helms “became a [...]
Sort by The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) - 04/24/2008
If you want to know how far to the right the Republican party is in North Carolina, look no further that this bottom-feeding video. It is an ad supposedly about Dem gubernatorial candidates Bev Perdue and Richard Moore (both endorsed Obama). They are trying to link that support to Rev. Wright (again!) to generate color arousal . The bottom line is that the GOP wants Hillary Clinton as an opponent....
Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 07/08/2008
Jesse Helms' death comes as no surprise, since his health had rapidly declined after he retired from the U.S. Senate in 2002. Yet it's fitting that he died on the Fourth of July. Helms was a disgrace to North Carolina and the nation, and what better time to celebrate our independence from the bigoted, hate-filled politics he stood for. Helms was the dominant political figure in North Carolina...
Sort by Firedoglake (Free subscription) - 07/05/2008
Among all the encomia to North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms' "strong, principled conservatism," while Republicans across the nation laud his tough leadership and contribution to their cause, let's not forget what the man was: Often he was the lone voice of dissent in a Senate of 100 often like-minded members. He fought his Republican colleagues as often as his Democratic counterparts....
Sort by The Hotline on Call (Free subscription) - 04/08/2008
Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia introduced John McCain at Vets for Freedom Rally today with this unfortunate line, linking Barack Obama with golfer Tiger Woods . But not in a good way: "Fortunately, I have the privilege, the distinct privilege today, of introducing a true American hero who defies political norms in Washington," Bellavia said. "Sen. John McCain has spent a lifetime in service to...
Sort by Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) - 07/04/2008
Jesse Helms has died . As a native and current resident of North Carolina, even today many people I run into outside of this state who know little about it -- recognize the name Jesse Helms. He leaves a long, dark trail of professional racial bigotry (he opposed the MLK national holiday, and civil rights legislation) and homophobia (that list is so long, you don't know where to begin). Former U.S....
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That's NPR-speak for, "He was a racist piece of shit." Jesse Helms was also a homophobic piece of shit who did everything he could to torment people with AIDS during the darkest hours of the AIDS epidemicand now he's dead . I realize that the death of a prominent piece of shit puts people on the radio and teevee in an awkward position. We're not supposed to speak ill of the dead... and any honest...
Sort by Pandagon (Free subscription) - 04/24/2008
If you want to know how far to the right the Republican party is in North Carolina, look no further that this bottom-feeding video. It is an ad supposedly about Dem gubernatorial candidates Bev Perdue and Richard Moore (both endorsed Obama). They are trying to link that support to Rev. Wright (again!) to generate color [...]
Sort by Towleroad (Free subscription) - 07/05/2008
Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who opposed civil right, the MLK holiday, extending voting rights, the United Nations, the Test Ban Treaty, affirmative action, arts funding, and anything at all to do with gay rights is...
Sort by Ross Douthat (Free subscription) - 02/27/2008
Mark Halperin, listing things McCain can do to beat Obama that Hillary can't: 5. Make an issue of Obama’s acknowledged drug use. 6. Allow some supporters to risk being accused of using the race card when criticizing Obama. ... 11. Emphasize Barack Hussein Obama’s unusual name and exotic background through a Manchurian Candidate prism. Actually, people associated with Hillary's campaign - if not Hillary...
Sort by The Brad Blog (Free subscription) - 07/10/2008
L.F. Eason III, the director of the state of North Carolina's Standards Laboratory in Raleigh, was forced to resign this week because he refused to follow an order to lower the laboratory's flags in honor of former North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, who died late last week. Eason, 51, had worked for the state for [...]
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Check out the first line of the New York Times’ article about the death of Jesse Helms : Jesse Helms, the former North Carolina Senator whose courtly manner and mossy drawl barely masked a hard-edged conservatism that opposed civil rights, gay rights, foreign aid and modern art, died early Friday. Helms wasn’t always my cup of tea, but it can hardly be said that he opposed civil rights. He opposed...
Sort by Sister Toldjah (Free subscription) - 04/24/2008
There is an emerging storm brewing between the Obama campaign and the North Carolina GOP over an ad the NCGOP created that includes snippets of Obama’s “former” pastor Jeremiah Wright's “sermons.” Here’s the ad: As the ad notes, both Democrat candidates for governor, Beth Perdue and Richard Moore (who have been trying to outliberal each [...]
Sort by The Left Coaster (Free subscription) - 07/05/2008
Jesse Helms died today at the age of 86. Reportedly the second most important conservative after Ronald Reagan (according to Pat Buchanan), Helms legacy in US Politics will last a long time. Jesse's most controversial and long-lasting contribution to politics was the handiwork of John McCain's chief strategist, Charlie Black: the infamous White Hands ad. Unlike other well-known conservative race-baiters,...
Sort by Majikthise (Free subscription) - 07/04/2008
One of America's most notorious race-baiters has died. Former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms passed away early this morning at the age of eighty-six. Helms wasn't just another politician, racism was his politics. He made a career out of appealing...
