Posted by
The New THOMA$ REPORT on Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:11:28 PM
I made the common mistake many people make in a
previous post because most of what I "knew" about Jesse helms was
what I read in the liberal media before I started "paying attention."
I never knew about him adopting an Asian child of nine, because he wanted to
grant this child's wish to "have a mother and father; or his support of
Harvey Gantt, the first black student ever at Clemson; or his actual HIRING of
James Meredith, the first black student at "Ol' Miss." "Helms
was viciously and falsely portrayed as a racist--including in the totally
objective New York Times obituary last week. In January 1963, a decade
before Helms would run for office, he editorialized about Harvey Gantt, the
first black student to be admitted to Clemson University in South Carolina.
Helms praised Gantt to the skies, saying he had 'stoutly resisted the pose of a
conquering hero' and had "turned away from the liberal press and
television networks which would glorify him.' Gantt, Helms said, just wanted to
be an architect and 'Clemson is the only college in South Carolina that can
teach him how to be one.' Funny how that little tidbit didn't make the
Times obituary. They must have cut it for 'space.' Helms was for
integration; he was simply against 'movements.' He would later hire James
Meredith, who was the first black to attend the University of Mississippi--with
the assistance of federal troops. By 1989, Meredith's views had come around to
those of Helms, not the other way around." That's what liberals do: twist
everything their enemies do and "brand them" as racists, or something
else just as vile, just as they're now doing to Ann Coulter. Meanwhile, they
ignore such things as Democrat Teddy Kennedy swimming away and leaving his
pregnant girlfriend to die in the car HE drove into the bay. (Ann Coulter)