What irony that that paragon of tolerance and liberty, Jesse Helms, should die on the very day we are celebrating our nation's birthday- and the same date on which Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died in 1801.
As Bill Maher said last year about Jerry Falwell, in a New Rules segment, "Death isn't always sad."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yz5T1EEo8ws It's hilarious.
Racist, homophobic, he presided over, some say orchestrated, the conversion of the Solid South- all because of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. A disgrace, or a disgracist, if you will- and it will be, as is inevitable, an outrage when American flags are flown at half-mast for him- particularly when some will be paired with the Confederate flag.
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