Comments on: Farewell, Jesse Helms

By: NatTurner

NatTurner — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:10:25 +0000

"Oh, I'll take Dixie over any of the rap songs you typical people (to use a Obama term) listen to." from angrywhitedude

But will you take a white metal rock song that leads to suicide from typically white teenagers? Or whatever white serial killers and pedophiles listen to….country right?

By: iowagradstudent

iowagradstudent — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:27:26 +0000

Um… I'm not a "right wing troll." I just think that using virulent hate-speech against Jesse Helms because he used virulent hate-speech against other human beings is a little… ironic?

This blog would have been better, I believe, if it had focused entirely on the idiocy of the Wall Street Journal's historical redaction of Jesse Helms' legacy. There's being respectful of the recently-dead, and then there's white-washing a racist into a conservative saint.

Conservatives, you don't want Jesse Helms as your emblem.

By: garth

garth — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:55:47 +0000

rot in hell, jesse helms! your bigotry helped shock millions into action.

By: obamagramma

obamagramma — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:07:11 +0000

I'm giving a limp wristed wave goodbye.

By: Victor the Crab

Victor the Crab — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:22:09 +0000

Yes, you right wing trolls. "Piss" Helms did speak his mind and believed in what he said. His was the mind of a twisted, hateful, manipulative evil fuck who thought nothing of throwing his own shit around to try and get his own way. To the detriment of the United States. His divisive, polarizing methods were the blueprint for the Republicans ascention to power and their destruction of all that the United States holds so near and dear. Karl Rove is Helms' bastard political child.

Good riddance to you, "Piss" Helms. May you be ass raped in the seventh circle of Hell for all eternity.

By: bk

bk — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:46:32 +0000

great blog entry! Good for you for writing the truth about Jesse Helms.

By: cptlou

cptlou — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:20:59 +0000

Disgusting post. Have you no shame!? Personally, I would never stoop to such a vicious attack on a dead man. For example, I didn't care much for George Carlin and his brand of humor — but I felt for his family and for the man himself when he passed away. I could never bring myself to denigrate a man in such a way. But then again — what a glorious country we live in that the right to spew such garbage is protected by the Constitution. Long Live the Constitution of the United States!

By: iowagradstudent

iowagradstudent — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 03:10:28 +0000

I kind of agree with a statement Nicole made earlier… there's a time and a place, and right after a person dies, no matter how much you hate them (or how much they might deserve to be hated), you ought to have a little respect for the feelings of his or her family, at the very least. I remember how disgruntled many of us were at Fox's treatment of the death of Kurt Vonnegut, and while that was dismissive and full of backhanded compliments, this blog and many comments here have been simply vicious.

No, what we should focus on instead are the appalling comments left here by people who support everything this man stood for. While I'd prefer to not grace their bigotry and asinine partisanship with a response, I nonetheless think they ought to be made unwelcome enough to go elsewhere to spew their hate. Seriously, the epithet of "homos and communists" is a compliment if they come from these folks.

By: obamagramma

obamagramma — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:31:56 +0000

Helms was an a–hole who kept his black love-child daughter secret for 60 years. A bigot who visited the dark side, had a dark child & STILL spouted about separation & denigration of African Americans. A stain on the Senate.

By: angrywhitedude

angrywhitedude — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:54:24 +0000

Helms was a great American! We need more like him. Only homos and communists write blogs like this. You castigate him for being friends with Pinochet? What about the left's love affair with Castro and Chavez? Know what? At least Pinochet got rid of communists in Chile. Of course, leftists are basically communists anyway and beyond reason.

Oh, I'll take Dixie over any of the rap songs you typical people (to use a Obama term) listen to.