The first couple portrayed as apes

[Pogo]

I've learned you LIE, have no conception of what is perported as the truth as presented by the LIBERAL PBS, and you're a moron! BTW, Byrd was elected in 1953!

"At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power.

The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.

Rise of the Ku Klux Klan . U.S. Grant: Warrior . WGBH American Experience | PBS

Now , please fade away, or do you contend that LIBERAL PBS doesn't know what it's writing?

If you quoted them accurately then apparently not, because the historical fact is the KKK was founded by veteran soldiers, not politicians, on 25 December 1865. Like it or lump it.

Apparently WITHOUT HIGHLIGHTING, you're completely BLIND, besides being stupid!

Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.

From the above PBS article! Now SPIN THAT!

And where in any of that do you see the KKK founded by a political party?

Where?

That was the original point, dumbass...

 

[Vigilante]

If you quoted them accurately then apparently not, because the historical fact is the KKK was founded by veteran soldiers, not politicians, on 25 December 1865. Like it or lump it.

Apparently WITHOUT HIGHLIGHTING, you're completely BLIND, besides being stupid!

Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.

From the above PBS article! Now SPIN THAT!

And where in any of that do you see the KKK founded by a political party?

Where?

That was the original point, dumbass...

Shit for brains..."help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans".... Now who else was there to do that EXCEPT the Democrats....the Bull Moose party, The Whigs? .... MORE SPIN....PLEASE!!!!

 

[Mertex]

I love how the libs try to deny their roots. Or their support for the infamous Robert Byrd.

You seem to have no problem supporting Strum Thurmond....

And when, exactly, did I support "Strum" Thurmond? Sounds like a guitar player.

Well, obviously you don't know...he was a big racist Democrat who became a Republican, and Republicans welcomed him with open arms......so, it makes you look foolish when you point your finger at Byrd.....you also welcomed Jesse Helms.....another big racist.

 

[S.J.]

The KKK was started to intimidate Republicans, and the Democratic Party defended them, much in the same way the liberals on this site defend Robert Byrd.

 

[Pogo]

Apparently WITHOUT HIGHLIGHTING, you're completely BLIND, besides being stupid!

Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.

From the above PBS article! Now SPIN THAT!

And where in any of that do you see the KKK founded by a political party?

Where?

That was the original point, dumbass...

Shit for brains..."help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans".... Now who else was there to do that EXCEPT the Democrats....the Bull Moose party, The Whigs? .... MORE SPIN....PLEASE!!!!

The Klan, moron. That's what we're talking about.

You don't need a political organization to commit terrorism. You don't need a political party to stir up hate against blacks, Jews, Catholics and loose women, which is what the Klan stood for. That's why it called itself a "social" organization.

Matter of fact the DP put the first Jewish Senator in office... twenty years before the Klan was even formed by them soldiers (David Levy Yulee, 1845) and would nominate the first Catholic for President (Al Smith, 1928), a move that was bitterly opposed by the KKK.

Now why would a political organization go around shooting its own agenda in the foot? Isn't really adding up, is it?

 

[Pogo]

You seem to have no problem supporting Strum Thurmond....

And when, exactly, did I support "Strum" Thurmond? Sounds like a guitar player.

Well, obviously you don't know...he was a big racist Democrat who became a Republican, and Republicans welcomed him with open arms......so, it makes you look foolish when you point your finger at Byrd.....you also welcomed Jesse Helms.....another big racist.

Trent Lott too. And Richard Shelby. That's what prior posts are talking about describing them as 'conservatives'. These armchair wags see their Fox Noise equate "Liberal" with "Democrat" and think that not only is that true, but it's always been true, and everywhere. Childlike thinking. History is truly a lost art.

 

[Vigilante]

And where in any of that do you see the KKK founded by a political party?

Where?

That was the original point, dumbass...

Shit for brains..."help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans".... Now who else was there to do that EXCEPT the Democrats....the Bull Moose party, The Whigs? .... MORE SPIN....PLEASE!!!!

The Klan, moron. That's what we're talking about.

You don't need a political organization to commit terrorism. You don't need a political party to stir up hate against blacks, Jews, Catholics and loose women, which is what the Klan stood for. That's why it called itself a "social" organization.

Matter of fact the DP put the first Jewish Senator in office... twenty years before the Klan was even formed by them soldiers (David Levy Yulee, 1845) and would nominate the first Catholic for President (Al Smith, 1928), a move that was bitterly opposed by the KKK.

Now why would a political organization go around shooting its own agenda in the foot? Isn't really adding up, is it?

The KLAN WAS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS! Why do you find it so hard in recognizing that? Even PBS recognizes that! Who cares about the other diversions you try to cover the facts with, just like a good subversive, LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT!!!!

 

[S.J.]

You seem to have no problem supporting Strum Thurmond....

And when, exactly, did I support "Strum" Thurmond? Sounds like a guitar player.

Well, obviously you don't know...he was a big racist Democrat who became a Republican, and Republicans welcomed him with open arms......so, it makes you look foolish when you point your finger at Byrd.....you also welcomed Jesse Helms.....another big racist.

Give up, Mertex, it's "StrOm Thurmond", not "Strum". I was making fun of you but you're too stupid to catch it. Strom Thurmond was a Dixiecrat, and you need to make your case for Jesse Helms being a racist. As far as I know, he never made statements proclaiming that blacks were mongrels, like Byrd did. The point is I never defended Thurmond or Helms. You libs, on the other hand, have defended Byrd repeatedly on this board.

 

[Pogo]

Shit for brains..."help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans".... Now who else was there to do that EXCEPT the Democrats....the Bull Moose party, The Whigs? .... MORE SPIN....PLEASE!!!!

The Klan, moron. That's what we're talking about.

You don't need a political organization to commit terrorism. You don't need a political party to stir up hate against blacks, Jews, Catholics and loose women, which is what the Klan stood for. That's why it called itself a "social" organization.

Matter of fact the DP put the first Jewish Senator in office... twenty years before the Klan was even formed by them soldiers (David Levy Yulee, 1845) and would nominate the first Catholic for President (Al Smith, 1928), a move that was bitterly opposed by the KKK.

Now why would a political organization go around shooting its own agenda in the foot? Isn't really adding up, is it?

The KLAN WAS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS! Why do you find it so hard in recognizing that? Even PBS recognizes that! Who cares about the other diversions you try to cover the facts with, just like a good subversive, LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT!!!!

Not everybody is political, dumbshit. Nor is that what your PBS page says. You didn't need to be political or belong to a party at all to be in the Klan. Because it's not a political organization.

What you're trying to do is a classic fallacy. You're pointing to a bag of lemons sitting next to a sack of potatoes and then claiming lemons are potatoes.

 

[S.J.]

Shit for brains..."help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans".... Now who else was there to do that EXCEPT the Democrats....the Bull Moose party, The Whigs? .... MORE SPIN....PLEASE!!!!

The Klan, moron. That's what we're talking about.

You don't need a political organization to commit terrorism. You don't need a political party to stir up hate against blacks, Jews, Catholics and loose women, which is what the Klan stood for. That's why it called itself a "social" organization.

Matter of fact the DP put the first Jewish Senator in office... twenty years before the Klan was even formed by them soldiers (David Levy Yulee, 1845) and would nominate the first Catholic for President (Al Smith, 1928), a move that was bitterly opposed by the KKK.

Now why would a political organization go around shooting its own agenda in the foot? Isn't really adding up, is it?

The KLAN WAS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS! Why do you find it so hard in recognizing that? Even PBS recognizes that! Who cares about the other diversions you try to cover the facts with, just like a good subversive, LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT!!!!

He recognizes it, he just can't admit it. That would make him wrong, and he can't stand being wrong, even though he's wrong all the time.

 

[Vigilante]

The Klan, moron. That's what we're talking about.

You don't need a political organization to commit terrorism. You don't need a political party to stir up hate against blacks, Jews, Catholics and loose women, which is what the Klan stood for. That's why it called itself a "social" organization.

Matter of fact the DP put the first Jewish Senator in office... twenty years before the Klan was even formed by them soldiers (David Levy Yulee, 1845) and would nominate the first Catholic for President (Al Smith, 1928), a move that was bitterly opposed by the KKK.


Now why would a political organization go around shooting its own agenda in the foot? Isn't really adding up, is it?

The KLAN WAS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS! Why do you find it so hard in recognizing that? Even PBS recognizes that! Who cares about the other diversions you try to cover the facts with, just like a good subversive, LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT!!!!

Not everybody is political, dumbshit. Nor is that what your PBS page says. You didn't need to be political or belong to a party at all to be in the Klan. Because it's not a political organization.

What you're trying to do is a classic fallacy. You're pointing to a bag of lemons sitting next to a sack of potatoes and then claiming lemons are potatoes.

Of course it wasn't it only TARGETED BLACKS AND SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS!!!!! Damn, how stupid do you think people are who read your trash?

 

[Vigilante]

The Klan, moron. That's what we're talking about.

You don't need a political organization to commit terrorism. You don't need a political party to stir up hate against blacks, Jews, Catholics and loose women, which is what the Klan stood for. That's why it called itself a "social" organization.

Matter of fact the DP put the first Jewish Senator in office... twenty years before the Klan was even formed by them soldiers (David Levy Yulee, 1845) and would nominate the first Catholic for President (Al Smith, 1928), a move that was bitterly opposed by the KKK.

Now why would a political organization go around shooting its own agenda in the foot? Isn't really adding up, is it?

The KLAN WAS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS! Why do you find it so hard in recognizing that? Even PBS recognizes that! Who cares about the other diversions you try to cover the facts with, just like a good subversive, LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT!!!!

He recognizes it, he just can't admit it. That would make him wrong, and he can't stand being wrong, even though he's wrong all the time.

This is so much fun, I might have to spend another hour here watching him squirm!!! You know his !!!!!!

 

[Pogo]

And when, exactly, did I support "Strum" Thurmond? Sounds like a guitar player.

Well, obviously you don't know...he was a big racist Democrat who became a Republican, and Republicans welcomed him with open arms......so, it makes you look foolish when you point your finger at Byrd.....you also welcomed Jesse Helms.....another big racist.

Give up, Mertex, it's "StrOm Thurmond", not "Strum". I was making fun of you but you're too stupid to catch it. Strom Thurmond was a Dixiecrat, and you need to make your case for Jesse Helms being a racist. As far as I know, he never made statements proclaiming that blacks were mongrels, like Byrd did. The point is I never defended Thurmond or Helms. You libs, on the other hand, have defended Byrd repeatedly on this board.

Again -- link?

Want to explain what a Dixiecrat is? Never mind, you're incompetent so I'll take it. Thurmond and other Southerners walked out of the 1948 Democratic convention because of its platform on civil rights, which they weren't having. They formed their own party (officially called the "States Rights Democratic Party"and ran Thurmond as a candidate. He actually won four states, all in the South, including Mississippi, which is what Trent Lott was referring to at Thurmond's birthday party where he said "we voted for him and if the rest of this country followed our lead we wouldn'ta had all these problems".

Once again (see Yulee and Smith above) there seems to be a political party alleged to have formed the Klan, working directly against the interests of that group.

'Splain that.

Oh and 1948 would be a few years after Byrd left the Klan and before he ran for office. Just for temporal perspective.

 

[Pogo]

The KLAN WAS SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS! Why do you find it so hard in recognizing that? Even PBS recognizes that! Who cares about the other diversions you try to cover the facts with, just like a good subversive, LOOK OVER THERE AT THE SHINY OBJECT!!!!

Not everybody is political, dumbshit. Nor is that what your PBS page says. You didn't need to be political or belong to a party at all to be in the Klan. Because it's not a political organization.

What you're trying to do is a classic fallacy. You're pointing to a bag of lemons sitting next to a sack of potatoes and then claiming lemons are potatoes.

Of course it wasn't it only TARGETED BLACKS AND SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS!!!!! Damn, how stupid do you think people are who read your trash?

And Catholics, and Jews, and "unvirtuous" women, and anyone who wasn't a practicing Protestant Christian.
Is there some reason you're leaving all that out? Is it the inconvenience?

Oh wait, I get it... you need the Klan to be political, and Jews and Catholics and virtuous women and Christianity don't help that argument.

Now why would a political party persecute Catholics, Jews and women? Particularly when that same party is the one nominating, and getting the votes of, Catholics, Jews and women?

 

[Vigilante]

Not everybody is political, dumbshit. Nor is that what your PBS page says. You didn't need to be political or belong to a party at all to be in the Klan. Because it's not a political organization.

What you're trying to do is a classic fallacy. You're pointing to a bag of lemons sitting next to a sack of potatoes and then claiming lemons are potatoes.

Of course it wasn't it only TARGETED BLACKS AND SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS!!!!! Damn, how stupid do you think people are who read your trash?

And Catholics, and Jews, and "unvirtuous" women.
Is there some reason you're leaving that out? Is it the inconvenience?

NOT germane to the topic, as the DEMOCRATIC KKK TARGETED BLACKS and SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.... try to concentrate on the fact that you denied the KKK was Democratic and PBS corrected you!

 

[S.J.]

I remember Chris (housing crisis) Dodd attacking Trent Lott for praising Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday, stating that Thurmond was a racist and should not have been praised. Then shortly after that, Dodd was doing the exact same thing, praising Robert Byrd (KKK) on his birthday. Can you say "hypocrite"?

 

[Pogo]

Of course it wasn't it only TARGETED BLACKS AND SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS!!!!! Damn, how stupid do you think people are who read your trash?

And Catholics, and Jews, and "unvirtuous" women.
Is there some reason you're leaving that out? Is it the inconvenience?

NOT germane to the topic, as the DEMOCRATIC KKK TARGETED BLACKS and SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.... try to concentrate on the fact that you denied the KKK was Democratic and PBS corrected you!

The KKK wasn't Democratic (or Republican). It was never a political organization. You have utterly failed to prove that it is or was.

Why would a Democratic organization elect a Republican governor? Or a state Congressman? Oh that's another Democrat-turned-Republican btw (Duke).

It's "not germane" because it doesn't support your bullshit, that's why. The fact is the Klan was a Protestant Christian social organization (sometimes called itself "fraternal") that worked on cultural values, not politics. That's why it got involved in religions and public morals. Those aren't the domain of political parties.

So you have failed to answer why a political party that you would have us believe was founded on racism, attracts Jews, Catholics and women (and more recently gays) in direct opposition to everything the Klan stands for. And had gone down that road before there even was a Klan.

This is where your bullshit starts to stink and turn into a rhetorical runny goo.

Why would Duke, and Lott and Thurmond and Helms et al, leave a political party and jump to the opposition? Because it wasn't serving their interests, that's why. Back to 1948, Harry Truman had already desegregated the military by Executive Order before that convention, and those conservatives in the South didn't cotton to that at all and were, as usual, working against the Liberal policies of tolerance. As they always had. That's why they walked out. They weren't getting what they wanted from the DP, so they ran their own renegade party and eventually bolted the party altogether, starting with Thurmond in '64. That was no small feat in the South, which was virtually a one-party (Democratic) region -- just as it is now on the other side. The names of the party changed; the conservative spirit under it didn't.

 

[Vigilante]

And Catholics, and Jews, and "unvirtuous" women.
Is there some reason you're leaving that out? Is it the inconvenience?

NOT germane to the topic, as the DEMOCRATIC KKK TARGETED BLACKS and SOUTHERN REPUBLICANS.... try to concentrate on the fact that you denied the KKK was Democratic and PBS corrected you!

The KKK wasn't Democratic (or Republican). It was never a political organization. You have utterly failed to prove that it is or was.

Why would a Democratic organization elect a Republican governor? Or a state Congressman? Oh that's another Democrat-turned-Republican btw (Duke).

It's "not germane" because it doesn't support your bullshit, that's why. The fact is the Klan was a Protestant Christian social organization (sometimes called itself "fraternal") that worked on cultural values, not politics. That's why it got involved in religions and public morals. Those aren't the domain of political parties.

So you have failed to answer why a political party that you would have us believe was founded on racism, attracts Jews, Catholics and women (and more recently gays) in direct opposition to everything the Klan stands for. And had gone down that road before there even was a Klan.

This is where your bullshit starts to stink and turn into a rhetorical runny goo.

Does the republican party have Jews, Blacks and women? It's all about $$$$$$!!!!! Jews gave up being Jewish when they changed their religion to LIBERALISM!

So after all the bullshit, you're calling the PBS article a pack of lies.... Boy, I was born at night, but NOT last night!

 

[Pogo]

I remember Chris (housing crisis) Dodd attacking Trent Lott for praising Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday, stating that Thurmond was a racist and should not have been praised. Then shortly after that, Dodd was doing the exact same thing, praising Robert Byrd (KKK) on his birthday. Can you say "hypocrite"?

I laugh when I say this but... Link?
I know, you have a lot to catch up.... nothing more persuasive than "I seem to remember..."

 

[katsteve2012]

Satire? I don't think that word means what they think it means.

Belgian Newspaper Accused Of Racism For Picture Of Obama And Michelle As Apes

De Morgen apologized for the image in its Monday edition, admitting it was guilty of "bad taste."

"When you consider the fragment apart from its context, which is a properly worked out satirical section, then you don't see the joke but just a picture evoking sheer racism," the newspaper said. "We wrongly assumed that racism is no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a joke."

Unigwe, who lives in Belgium, went on to tweet in depth about the controversial spread, noting that the fault lies with Belgian society moreso than De Morgen:

I really can't find the possible humor angle. I guess I need to evolve more, or something.

Not surprising and not the first time.

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