Can't believe the silence on this issue

[Fuzzball]

In a petition found here:

you will here about the major medias' non-issue dealing with Christopher Dodd.

From the page:

Referring to Sen. Robert Byrd, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, who voted against civil rights legislation and who holds the distinction of being the only senator in U.S. history to vote against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, Sen. Christopher Dodd said he "cannot think of a single moment in this nation's 220-plus year history where [Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country."

This is the same Robert Byrd who once told Tony Snow on Fox News that there are "white [n-word]."

I cannot believe that even here....on RR.com.....this is not being discussed....

Trent Lott was lambasted in the press for similar comment about Strom Thurmond and yet here Dodd gets a free ride.

And liberals love to try to speak into existence the lie that there is no liberal bias in the press....the press isn't even covering this.

And where are the weenies in the Republican party on this????? They are as silent as the press..

We need new life in the GOP.....life that comes complete with some backbone.....

[Fuzzball]

Also from the petition:

In December 2002, Dodd stated, "If a Democratic leader had made [Lott's] statements, we would have to call for his stepping aside, without any question whatsoever."

He added that action should be "very swift" and "unanimous."

We agree with Sen. Dodd!

[Hane]

This was discussed on the board but I am overjoyed that you provided a link to the petition.

I signed it when I received it via e-mail.

[Fuzzball]

hmmm.....bummer that I missed it....I did a search on "dodd" before I posted...perhaps I didn't look back far enough....

Anyways, I think it needs to be blasted all over the news....

What a double standard the media has when it comes to Rats and Republicans.....

[RaccaFracca]

Signed it. Thanks

[Scott]

Originally posted by Fuzzball:
hmmm.....bummer that I missed it....I did a search on "dodd" before I posted...perhaps I didn't look back far enough....

Anyways, I think it needs to be blasted all over the news....

What a double standard the media has when it comes to Rats and Republicans.....

It was posted earlier under the header
"Byrd Brain". http://www.ronaldreagan.com/ubb/ulti...c;f=3;t=001531

It started off on topic and then spun off on NHL Hockey finals. Sorry...Go Senators though, now that the Devils are out..err...anyways...

I agree the hypocrisy and silence by the Mules and the media is incredible but not surprising.

[Paul_Fisher]

Yeah. No liberal media my foot [img]graemlins/popcorn.gif[/img]

[Hane]

Dodd Displays a Lott of Hypocrisy
By Doug Patton
April 19, 2004

When U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., uttered his now-infamous (not to mention politically stupid) remarks on the occasion of former Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday, he was rightfully forced to step down from his position as Senate Majority Leader.

"I want to say this about my state," Lott had said. "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems for all these years, either."

At that time, in a column titled "A Whole Lott of Bad Judgment," I wrote that for the sake of the Republican agenda-especially in the area of judicial appointments-Lott's continued service as Majority Leader had become a huge distraction.

One of Lott's harshest critics was his Senate colleague, Democrat Christopher Dodd of Connecticut.

"If a Democratic leader had made [Lott's] statements," Dodd said at the time, "we would have to call for his stepping aside, without any question whatsoever. If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift. I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside."

Oh, really? Well, this past week, Senate Democrats had a golden opportunity to prove the veracity of Dodd's statement. Dodd was on the Senate floor, doing exactly what Lott was trying to do at the Thurmond birthday party: praise the long service of a fellow United States Senator.

It seems that West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd-a former Ku Klux Klansman who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and just a couple years ago used the "n" word in a TV interview-had just cast his 17,000th vote in a long and colorful career of Senate soliloquies and pork barrel spending. Several of his colleagues from both sides of the aisle paid tribute to Byrd's longevity in the body. But apparently, Dodd felt the need to go several verbose steps further, and in so doing, inserted his foot directly into his mouth.

"It has often been said that the man and the moment come together," Dodd said of Byrd. "I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment. Some were right for the time. Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at any time.

"He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution," Dodd blathered on. "He would have been right at the great moments of international threat we faced in the 20th century. You would have been right at the founding of this country, right during the Civil War. I cannot think of a single moment in this nation's 220-plus year history where [Robert Byrd] would not have been a valuable asset to this country."

Full Article Here

[Mike-Cannon]

I added my name to the petition as well. Fuzzball's very passionate post strongly reiterates what we all know. The double standard is still going strong.