Jesse Helms and the Dialog On Race

When the newborn is shown to a bunch of women, you always hear the same lies: “what a beautiful baby.” The fact is that the parents are grateful that it has ten toes and fingers. And the wrinkled little tyke is anything but beautiful; we’re just glad that it’s finally out and alive.

The same with that “dialog on race” that the MSM is always wishing for. It’s a lie. Here is what the MSM looks for in a dialog on race.






Evidence? Just take a gander at the Virginian Pilot’s editorial on the passing of Jesse Helms.

Jesse was to the Right what Teddy Kennedy is to the Left, minus the “waitress sandwich:” an unabashed Conservative. He was a conservative with no regrets and no apologies, and the Left hated him with a passion. He was famous for his opposition to racial preferences. If he had been black he would have been denounced as an “Uncle Tom.” As a white man he was tarred as a racist.

But back to the concept of the dialog on race. It’s hard to have a dialog when one side is told what they can’t say. It’s impossible to discuss differences when one side is told that its opinions are illegitimate. That’s why the “dialog on race” that the Virginian Pilot wants to have will never take place under its auspices. You may be a gambler, but you would be a fool to enter a game of chance when you know your opponent has loaded dice and marked the cards.

The MSM and people at the Virginian Pilot don’t really want a dialog on race; they’re looking for a white patsy who will agree that the problems with the races are the White Man’s Fault.

Need more evidence? The VIRGINIAN PILOT tells us that Jessie Helms appealed to fear. Let’s look at today’s VIRGINIAN PILOT and look for fear.

Bush is going to wiretap your phone.
California's burning down.
Your life's becoming worthless.
Astronauts could get blown up.

Now on to the local news

Teen arrested for burglary, robbery
Bad people yell about hospital
Murder convict goes to jail
Man shoots relative
Execution at nine PM

You get the picture? Fear and evil are the MSM's stock in trade. Without it there would be acres of white space and barrels of unused printers ink.


Let’s look also at the classic Liberal themes in election campaigns since as far back as I can remember: “Republicans will take away your social security.” “George Bush lynched James Byrd,” “Vote for Republicans and bring back segregation.” You want call these positive themes? Don’t make me laugh. And remember the “macaca” video in the last election when the main theme the MSM drove was whether George Allen was a closet racist or an out-in-the-open racist. Uplifting? Issue oriented? Don’t make me laugh. I had a friend in college whose favorite expression was: “You shit your friends and I’ll shit mine but let’s not shit each other.” That’s my message to the racists writing commentary on the editorial pages of the VIRGINIAN PILOT.

Jesse Helms was not much to look at, but he was a giant of a man in a political world of spineless weasels.

UPDATE: For anyone paying attention, the recent election campaign is proof positive to even the meanest intelligence that the party of racism, sexism and bigotry is the Democrat Party. The Clinton – Obama contest was exhibit “A.”

As we move from primaries into the general election, the issue of race will be the over-riding factor. Not because of John McCain, but because of Barack Obama.

Obama is actually running on the fact that he is the first non-threatening Black to have a shot at the White House. Black America will vote for one of their own. White Liberals will vote for him in expiation for the “Whiteness Sin.”

Deny it if you will, but why else elevate to the top leadership position in the country a man with less than 2 years experience in Congress whose close associates include unrepentant terrorists, convicted swindlers and racist preachers. A man who tells us he’s ashamed of his countrymen because they’re not multilingual and whose wife has told us she is only proud of her country because her husband won the primary. A man who has thrown his racist granny under the bus and who, after telling us he could no more disown his racist spiritual mentor than his racist granny, disowned him for calling him a politician.

Let’s not even go into the sweetheart mortgage deal and the book deal for the biography of a young state legislator whose main vote was “present.” A politician who entered political life via the most corrupt political machine in the country.

And finally we have the man who has managed to create the biggest political rift in the Black community in the past 50 years, now evidenced by the “Reverend Jackson” threatening to cut off Obama’s nuts.

The Virginian Pilot has a full plate of racism, sexism and hatred on its side of the political spectrum. Its reaction is to say “quick, look there.”

UPDATE 2: Ann Coulter

THE NEW YORK TIMES VS. HELMS, PART 529,876
by Ann Coulter
July 9, 2008

Last Friday, on the Fourth of July, the great patriot Jesse Helms passed away. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson also went to their great reward on Independence Day, so this is further proof of God.

Helms is now the second great American patriot I've always wanted to meet and never will, at least in this lifetime. The only other one is the magnificent Reagan aide Lyn Nofziger. (Wikipedia quote: "I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.")

After a week of hundreds of Helms obituaries -- one or two of which were not completely dishonest -- I will mention just a few items that were not addressed or given sufficient attention.

The two most obsessively discussed topics among Senate staffers are: (1) Who is the stupidest senator? (Sen. Barbara Boxer pulled into the lead when Sen. Lincoln Chafee retired), and (2) which senators are beastly and which are wonderful to their staff?

When I worked in the Senate in the '90s, the two senators famous for being absolute princes to work for were Sen. Helms and -- it pains me to tell you this, so you know it has to be true -- Sen. Teddy Kennedy. (He was so nice to his staffers, he frequently offered them rides home in his car after parties.)

I never knew -- and you never knew, unless you read one of the two honest obituaries this past week -- that in 1962 Helms and his wife "Dot" adopted a 9-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy. They already had two daughters and Helms was 41 years old at the time. But it was Christmastime and they read about Charlie in a newspaper. He said all he wanted for Christmas was a mother and father.

In the 1976 North Carolina Republican primary, Helms engineered Ronald Reagan's upset victory over Gerald Ford, the sitting president. That victory carried Reagan to the convention and made him the front-runner in 1980. The night Reagan won the 1980 presidential election, Helms famously uttered the beautiful words: "God has given America one more chance."

In 1984, Helms' re-election campaign was the then-most expensive Senate race in history. His Democratic opponent, Gov. Jim Hunt, received campaign contributions from the usual dotty liberals: Barbra Streisand, Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, Paul Newman, Woody Allen -- all, no doubt, steeped in North Carolina politics.

Shockingly, Hunt also received a donation from Arthur Sulzberger, publisher of the nonpartisan, totally objective, straight-down-the-middle New York Times. Which I guess explains the nasty obituary last week.

Meanwhile, Helms received contributions mostly from America's two most dangerous fringe groups: housewives and businessmen. His few celebrity supporters included Gene Autry and Ellin Berlin, wife of composer Irving Berlin, the patriotic Jewish immigrant who wrote "White Christmas" and "God Bless America."

Other Republicans loved to run in years when Helms was up for election because, like a Marine exposing himself to enemy fire to let his comrades escape, all the Hollywood money would be dedicated to defeating Helms.

On election night 1984, a friend of mine was at a Republican victory party in Michigan when suddenly a group of Hasidim broke out in cheering and dancing. Was "Fiddler on the Roof" being made into a major motion picture? He looked up at the mammoth TV screen. It read: "Jesse Helms Wins North Carolina."

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.

After years of reading and studying and attending law school at Columbia University, Meredith concluded that blacks had been better off when they worked for themselves and not for white liberals. (Having worked for white liberals myself, I couldn't agree more.) Meredith claimed Helms fired him as domestic policy adviser after a year because he was too right-wing for Helms.

Which reminds me: I'll have to try to meet Meredith before the next Fourth of July.

Liberals discount Helms' hiring of Meredith on the grounds that Meredith had wandered off the reservation. (Blacks are allowed to have only one set of political views.) It just shows you how stupid liberals are: Blacks don't live on reservations; Indians do.

It's pretty much the same thing liberals are accusing B. Hussein Obama of right now. In its July 4 editorial, the Times harangued Obama for his diversions from the liberal line on Iraq, the domestic surveillance bill, capital punishment and guns. I believe the editorial was titled something like, "Get in Line, N-word."

To paraphrase Dan Quayle, to be called a racist by these people is a badge of honor. Rest in peace, Jesse Helms: New York Times stock was recently lowered to a notch above junk bond status.