Senator Robert "Sheets" Byrd

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Originally Posted by Riot

Joey says you can't do that. Hypocrisy.

Some others call it manners, though

It is hypocrisy to extoll the virtues of someone who is now dead, when they were the opposite of everything you supposedly believe when they were alive.

If a Republican had either been a member of the KKK OR voted against the Civil Rights Act, we'd never hear the end of it. But Byrd does both, and pretty much embarassed himself on every occasion where he was near a microphone, and somehow he's another "Lion of the Senate"? Yeah, OK.

Look at what the press did to Senator Trent Lott when he said some very broad and sweeping flattery for 100 year old Senator Strom Thurmond. Lott never said he supported the Dixiecrat agenda, but he said of the former presidential candidate Thurmond something along the lines of "Maybe things would have been better had Thurmond won." That wasn't a racial statement, but don't try to tell the Left that one. Everything is racial when it suits them. But when Byrd, one of their own legislators, has speeches about "white n-words", and writings I won't repeat mentioned here (fourth paragraph, inset):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicalju...lf?ft=1&f=1014

everythings just great. That is the definition of hypocrisy, his death notwithstanding.