The Mainstream Media is biased towards liberals. They may not realize they have the bias, but you never need to look very hard for proof. The death of Senator Robert Byrd provided a new proof point. There is only one comparison to Byrd's Senate career - Senator Strom Thurmond. Strom died 7 years ago, nearly to the day. Strom was a conservative Republican. Byrd was a liberal Democrat. Both of their Senate careers were long, both came from southern states, and both had segregationist beliefs in their youth. USA Today reported both Senator's deaths, but notice the difference:
Former senator Thurmond dies
By William M. Welch, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. senator Strom Thurmond, who took the political stage as the nation's most prominent segregationist and left it as the most enduring political figure of the century, died Thursday night at age 100.
The writer was compelled to mention Thurmond's past support of segregation in the first sentence. Now, look at how USA Today reports Byrd's death:
Senate stalwart Robert Byrd dies at 92
By Kathy Kiely, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Byrd, who rose from West Virginia's impoverished hollows to aid, counsel and sometimes chastise presidents from the Senate seat he occupied for more than a half-century, died early Monday morning. He was 92 and had served in Congress longer than anyone in the nation's history.
In act, it is not until the eighth paragraph that his affiliation with the KKK is mentioned:
Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and a participant in an epic but ultimately unsuccessful filibuster against landmark civil rights legislation in 1964.
The depth of his affiliation was more than just membership. At minimum, Byrd provided council to the Grand Poo bah. From a different story:
At a time when Byrd claimed to have withdrawn his membership [from the Klan], he was in fact advising Grand Imperial Wizard Samuel Green on whom to appoint to important posts in the hierarchy of the hate group. In a letter to Green, Byrd urged, "the Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the Union."
A year later in 1948, Byrd opposed President Truman's initiative to integrate the Armed Forces - and he did so using the language of a very much active Klansman.
The powerful Senate Democrat vowed then that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner (the American flag) with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
Remember these words when you hear about the distinguished career the Senator from West Virginia had. Need more proof?
STROM THURMOND, FOE OF INTEGRATION, DIES AT 100
ROBERT BYRD, RESPECTED VOICE OF THE SENATE, DIES AT 92
Both obituaries were written by the same writer, Adam Clymer. The headlines appeared in the The New York Times.
The Mainstream Media are simply distorting the legacy for one of their own.
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8 years ago
Scary indeed !
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