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CreativeDominant -> RE: Robert 'Sheets' Byrd (D-KKK) 1917 - 2010 (6/29/2010 12:37:01 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant
Tis funny how with most democrats, all it takes is an apology for "mistakes" to be forgiven...as long as you are a democrat. Be a conservative who dies and if you've renounced anything during your life that you consider a mistake, watch the democrats line up to call you hypocritical, a shrewd manipulator of the public who didn't mean his apology, etc..
Examples?
Edited to add... I am no democrat... so I do not have a dog in this race... but Byrd stood up when no one else would, and he gave me hope that history would record the dissent to the Iraq War. I feel I owe him a great deal for that
You are no democrat but you are a proud liberal and, anymore, liberal (or progressive) and democrat are synonymous. And I'd be curious to know who WAS the last republican you voted for.
Anyway, here is an example of what I wrote about. From the article, to be found here: http://toddstarnes.com/?p=732
Media Bias in Lawmakers’ Obits?
The life stories of Senators Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd are similar but the way they were covered in death has been as different as night and day.
Thurmond, a Republican, opposed segregation and supported states rights. When he died, the Associated Press story included the following headline that appeared on June 27, 2003:
STROM THURMOND, FOE OF INTEGRATION, DIES AT 100
Byrd, a Democrat, was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. When he died, the Associated Press story included the following heading on June 28, 2010:
ROBERT BYRD, RESPECTED VOICE OF THE SENATE, DIES AT 92
Both obituraries were written by the same writer, Adam Clymer. The headlines appeared in the The New York Times.
In the June 27, 2003 story he wrote, “Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday.
Then consider how he wrote about Byrd, the Democrat. “Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virgina, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92.”
Readers would have been hard-pressed to find any reference to Byrd’s involvement with the KKK. It was buried in the 21st paragraph of the story.
Media Bias in Lawmakers’ Obits?
The life stories of Senators Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd are similar but the way they were covered in death has been as different as night and day.
Thurmond, a Republican, opposed segregation and supported states rights. When he died, the Associated Press story included the following headline that appeared on June 27, 2003:
STROM THURMOND, FOE OF INTEGRATION, DIES AT 100
Byrd, a Democrat, was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. When he died, the Associated Press story included the following heading on June 28, 2010:
ROBERT BYRD, RESPECTED VOICE OF THE SENATE, DIES AT 92
Both obituraries were written by the same writer, Adam Clymer. The headlines appeared in the The New York Times.
In the June 27, 2003 story he wrote, “Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a one-time Democratic segregationist who helped fuel the rise of the modern conservative Republican Party in the South, died Thursday.
Then consider how he wrote about Byrd, the Democrat. “Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virgina, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died Monday. He was 92.”
Readers would have been hard-pressed to find any reference to Byrd’s involvement with the KKK. It was buried in the 21st paragraph of the story... (bold-ing and underlining are mine)
Go read the rest of the article. I think you'll find that it gives you at least one example of what I said...unless you consider the New York Times to be a conservative newspaper or the writer of the story to be a conservative columnist.
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