That's the strange way the late Senator Jesse Helms was eulogized over at Objective Conservative. Helms' racism was glossed over as simply something "liberals" said about him, something one need barely mention before tossing it down the memory hole. Now that's what they mean by objective! But it's worth recounting just exactly what this man did for freedom and equality. The father of that "stalwart defender of liberty" beat a black woman mercilessly in the streets of North Carolina. Rather than dissociate with such brutal racism, that "stalwart defender of liberty" worked for several segregationist campaigns in the South and continued to denounce the black freedom movement, then continued the bigotry in the 80s against homosexuals. That "stalwart defender of liberty" helped elect a president who illegally funded murderous right-wing gangs in Latin America (a rampage from which many countries are only now beginning to recover) by selling weapons to official enemy states.
More fitting eulogies to the late Senator can be found at Freedom Road and (in a more juvenile humor vein) at Sadly, No!
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