Well, uh, see, in Africa they got them big cats in trees that jump on you, and hyenas and stuff, and in the big cities, they got uh....
Hmm.

OH!- Large cracks in the sidewalk you could like totally twist your ankle on.
Yeah! That's it.

WaPo took that quote out of the article for a short time. It is back in now.

I'm deeply offended. Unless he's somehow talking in code about that Afro-Zionist Sammy Davis, Jr. Then I'm not offended.

Either the guy is doing this consciously just because he knowingly delights in the irony of someone with a racist pedigree like his being held as a standard-bearer for equal justice and civil rights of the oppressed, or he's just a senile old dixiecrat sliding back into familiar rhetorical tropes.

I doubt he's bright enough for the former.

In Bernard Goldberg's new book, he points out just how absurd it is that Byrd's past doesn't come back to haunt him. He was making pro-Klan statements long past the time that he allegedly repudiated the organization.

But it doesn't matter. The media's never going to call Byrd on this stuff. He's one of the beautiful people, as Howie Carr would say.

Uh, slublog? Howie Carr?

Are you in the Boston area too?

The solution is a lot simpler than you might imagine. He's below 50% against a Republican who hasn't even declared yet.

Sort of, if you extend the Boston area up about four hours.

I'm in Bangor, Maine. Howie's show is on one of our talk radio stations.

Got it.

You live in Metro Red Sox, but not Metro Boston.

Red Sox? Can you even say that on Ace's site? The guy's a New Yorker...

I'm a Texan by birth, so I'm more of a football fan than a baseball one. Most of my co-workers consider that heresy of the worst sort.

I was glad to see the Sox win the series, though. Even if I did hang a Yankee poster on my office door just to annoy the co-workers.

Jesus, I try to give everybody the benefit of the doubt, but that's a poor choice of metaphor.

Stop me if you heard this. Oops. Too late.

The coach had put together the perfect team for the Philadelphia Eagles. The only thing that was missing was a good quarterback. He had scouted all the colleges and even the Canadian and European Leagues, but he couldn't find a quarterback who could ensure a Super Bowl win.

Then one night while watching CNN he saw a war-zone scene in Afghanistan. In one corner of the background, he spotted a young Afghan Muslim soldier with a truly incredible arm. He threw a hand-grenade straight into a 15th story window 100 yards away. KABOOM! He threw another hand-grenade 75 yards away, right into a chimney. KA-BLOOEY! Then he threw another at a passing car going 90 mph. BULLS-EYE!

"I've got to get this guy!" Coach said to himself. "He has the perfect arm!"

So, he brings him to the States and teaches him the great game of football. And the Eagles go on to win the Super Bowl. The young Afghan is hailed as the great hero of football, and when the coach asks him what he wants, all the young man wants is to call his mother.

"Mom," he says into the phone, "I just won the Super Bowl!"

"I don't want to talk to you," the old Muslim woman says. "You deserted us. You are not my son!"

"I don't think you understand, Mother," the young man pleads. "I've won the greatest sporting event in the world. I'm here among thousands of my adoring fans."

"No! Let me tell you!" his mother retorts. "At this very moment, there are gunshots all around us. The neighborhood is a pile of rubble. Your two brothers were beaten within an inch of their lives last week, and I have to keep your sister in the house so she doesn't get raped!"

The old lady pauses, and then tearfully says, "I will never forgive you for making us move to Philadelphia!

The man finally made an intelligent comment. Let' leave it at that and not get petty.

I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.

Loved the Philly joke.

Byrd apologists like Randi Rhoades characterize any mention of Byrd's racist past as "picking on an old man to score cheap political points". No way they'll hold him accountable.

I read somewhere that Bush threatened to nominate Brown and play the KKK card on Byrd if he didn't cooperate.

May not be true, but it's a satisfying idea.

Let's compare and contrast:

Zell Miller blasts the Democratic party for not standing up for economic and political liberty across the globe and is branded a dangerous ideologue. Oh and psst, he's a Southerner, if you know what I mean.

Robert Byrd makes really unfortunate comparisons between Africa and criminals, statements no doubt offensive to the Democrats' most faithful constituency and ...

Well, we'll see I guess.

Sir,

Senator Byrd finds Justice Roberts sufficient to his measure to rule on jungle law. Mighty white of him.

Sincerely,

rcl

In the jungle, the mighty jungle...

lol@rcl

Geez, Byrd is so senile he doesn't know black from white. (Talk about irony.) The guy has been GONE for years now.

He'll be saying something else tomorrow depending upon the advice he gets from his lawn gnome.

Later,
bbeck

"...advice he gets from his lawn gnome..."

bb,

Something tells me it's a lawn jockey. Just a suspicion.

rcl

Something tells me it's a lawn jockey.

Heh, I actually thought of writing that. :)

Later,
bbeck

palabras codigas de la raza!

Is your answer Ace.