Biden got early lesson in clash with Helms
NewsObserver.com - Politics (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Joe Biden cited former Sen. Jesse Helms at the debate Thursday.
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The Lesson from Dan Quayle
The Inn at the End of the World (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
This is from Christopher Manion's column in a recent number of The Wanderer. And the sequestration is already happening exactly as he predicted. “ Son, Dan Quayle wants you to help him, and I said it’s OK. His guy’s gonna call you.” With that, Jesse Helms walked out of the cloakroom onto the Senate floor, handing me my only foray ever into vice- presidential politics. In that spring of 1988, it was...
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Latest Brownback Effort To Hamstring Public Diplomacy
Avuncular American (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
He once told a group of businessmen he wanted to be the next Jesse Helms -- "Senator No," who operated as a one-man demolition unit against godlessness, independent of his party."God's Senator," Jeff Sharlet, Rolling Stone, January 25, 2006Matt Armstrong...
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Title III of the infamous Helms-Burton Act
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
JG: The infamous Helms-Burton Act was signed into law in 1996 because then president Bill Clinton prostituted himself by jumping into bed with the most reactionary of right wing U.S. Senators: Jesse Helms (R-NC). Non JG Report: Title III of the 1996 Helms-Burton law, sponsored by the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms and Rep. Dan Burton, allowed Americans to sue people or companies who use Cuban property...
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John Henning: Support for California Gay Marriage Ban Slipping?
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
It was known as the "Jesse Helms effect": When a poll asks anything having to do with bias, lots of people just don't tell the truth.
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Lies And The Lying Liars Cont'd
D-Day (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
Hey, it's Thursday, so it's time for another lying ad from the McCain campaign. I don't necessarily buy the argument that this is some kind of Jesse Helms situation because it pairs Obama with another black man, but the problem is that Frank Raines, the former head of Freddie Mac, has no involvement with the Obama campaign whatsoever. Here's the campaign statement: This is another flat-out lie from...
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Boozhy Headlines: 'Cause Jesse Helms Is Dead
Boozhy: a blog (Free subscription) | 19/09/2008
It's no secret that the GOP Convention was the whitest convention in 40+ years, with only 36 african americans in attendance. After being admonished by Red and Blue minority groups alike, the GOP got right on it and nominated uber-WASP...
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Dinner with Alex, or Why I Hate the IOP
Minipundit (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
I had dinner with Alex Castellanos last night. He's a CNN talking head and, more to the point, the promoter of the most vile, race-baiting political strategies since the end of Jim Crow. He made the Jesse Helms "Hands" ad,...
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Georgia GOP Rep. Lynn Westmoreland Outs Himself As a Racist
Pensito Review (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Rep. Westmoreland, who co-sponsored a bill to post the 10 Commandments in the Senate and House, can’t recite the Decaloguge. (Transcript below.) Any notion that the segregationist mindset died with former N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms this summer should be dispelled with news that, in an interview with the The Hill newspaper in Washington last [...]
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Street Artist Swoon Deemed Pirate by NYC Cops
Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Amazing, sometimes, how the ignorance and fear of New York City authority figures can contribute so much to success of the artists who come here. In the grand tradition of Jesse Helms making Andres Serrano famous (for Piss Christ , an obvious, um, violation of church and state), Rudy Giuliani helped Chris Ofili's career greatly when he decided to become upset about the artist's The Holy Virgin Mary...
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P.S. on "The Political, the Personal"
The Corner (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Three years ago, I interviewed Jesse Helms (and you can find the results here). It was one of the last interviews he gave. I asked him many questions, and he declined to answer only one -- the one concerning the aforementioned adoptive, handicapped son. Say what you will about Senator Helms (and there are some things to say against): He was a man of value.
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G.O.P. Prays For McCain's Campaign Slogan, Salutes Jesse Helms
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
The first evening session of the Republican convention opened with an invocation from a minister who prayed that America's leaders would put "country first" – which, completely coincidentally, just so happens to be John McCain's campaign slogan and a phrase that is plastered all over the Xcel Energy Center. After he finished, John Boehner, the House Majority Leader, introduced a tribute to Republican...
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Jerks (Knee Variety)
An Examined Life (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Once, when I was living in North Carolina, I called the office of then-senator Jesse Helms to make a suggestion. I began my conversation with the woman who answered the phone by explaining that I had supported Mr. Helms in the previous two elections, and that in general I liked his politics. She was very friendly with me throughout much of this conversation, and we got along famously for a while. My...
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WRAL = Faux Noise
BlueNC - Comments (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The birth place of Jesse Helm's popularity. Since when did WRAL EVER care about the public good? They only care about advancing the Republican agenda and the elitism of rich white men. I often wonder about their token African-American news casters...do they ever feel used? No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true...
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‘Piss Christ’ Photographer Andres Serrano Craps Out Some New Art
Vulture (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Courtesy of Village Voice / Andres Serrano Artist Andres Serrano famously provided a test case for the culture wars of the early nineties, when Jesse Helms led the battle to defund the National Endowment of the Arts. Serrano's Piss Christ enraged the North Carolina senator and many others, so much so that the beauty of the photo got lost in its blasphemy. Now Serrano has a new show opening next month...
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