07/05/2008
jesse helms is dead dead dead
[via JoeMyGod:]
Former Sen. Jesse Helms (R-NC), the most notoriously racist and homophobic politician in the history of the United States, has died at the age of 86. Happy Independence Day!!!
And now for some choice quotes from DEAD Jesse Helms, the greatest embarrassment to North Carolina and the nation:
- On threatening the life of a sitting president: “Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He’d better have a bodyguard.”
- On gays and AIDS: “It’s their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease”
- On equality: “I’ve been portrayed as a caveman by some. That’s not true. I’m a conservative progressive, and that means I think all men are equal, be they slants, beaners, or niggers.”
- On education: “Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade-school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping and murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.”
- On civil rights: “The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.”
- On journalists: “The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.”
- On the Duke University students upset by Martin Luther King’s assassination: “They should ask their parents if it would be all right for their son or daughter to marry a Negro.”
To paraphrase Bette Davis: “You’re only supposed to say good things about the dead. Jesse Helms is dead. Good.”
The world is just a tinny bit better today.
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