Absolutely ridiculous, and wholly unsurprising.

Well, the facts may have been wrong, but the spirit of the story was accurate.

They're lying, but serving a higher truth.

Fake, but accur--aw, fuck it! WE HEART THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY!

(but don't tell anybody, okay?)

It's so sickingly laughable to watch Democrats whenever they praise that doddering old fool Robert Byrd, considering his personal history. Barbara Boxer, saying "Robert Byrd is the love of my life", et al. If a Republican had his story? Oh god, he'd be the personification of evil.

What we meant to say was "today's Republicans WOULD have filibustered civil rights"... Yeah, that's it. That's what we meant.

If you read the "corrected" ABC story, you'll see that they removed:

Democrats have opposed the filibuster before — in the 1960s, they accused Republicans of using it to block civil rights legislation.

According to the Senate Historical Office, the record for the longest individual speech is held by the late Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes against the Civil Rights Act of 1957. . .

Hey Ace, don't forget your sources are right at least two-thirds of the time!

ABCNews, Your World Tonight, our world tomorrow

Heh, this is like that time somebody included a pic of Bush that was called something like "moron.jpg". The correction came pretty quickly, with, of course, zero comment.

ATTN MSM: Just fly the sickle and hammer and get it over with.

More on the evolution of the filibuster and how southern conservatives came to love the nuclear option here.

Jon slimed:

More on the evolution of the filibuster and how southern conservatives came to love the nuclear option here.

This is what I sent ABC News:

"Uh...your Annie Chiappetta uses Strom Thurman as an example of the "minority party, which can't win with a vote count"?

As I recall, Strom Thurman was a Democrat in 1957, and the Democrats were in the majority.

Please have Annie, or her editor, check facts before publishing.

Yours,"

Here is their response:

"Thank you for contacting us.

We appreciate you pointing this out to us. It will be passed on to the
appropriate department for review.

Thanks for logging on to ABCNews.com.

Regards,

Richard
ABCNews.com
http://abcnews.go.com/"

Richard doesn't have a last name. Poor kid.

Republicans lost control of the senate in 1956 when Oregon Senator Wayne Morris left the Republican party to become an independent...then later became a democrat when he realized that without party affiliation he would have no committee assignments.

The whole historical truth would have been a lot more interesting. Wayne Morse, liberal maverick, joining the party of racial intolerance because he opposed Richard Nixon's vice-Presidential status.

You know, you can tell that it is Friday just by the spike in "poor lonely me" comments by Ace:

Or, in my case, a desperate loner with nothing left to lose.

Well, not "knew," per se. Saw in homeroom. Stalked a little.

Set your calendars by it ....

Ace, are you listening to Sinatra by any chance?

DDG

We've always been at war with Eastasia.