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Jesse Helms is Dead [Greg Laden's Blog]

Ding dong.

The mo'fkr died on the Fourth of July. Probably on purpose.

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Jesse Helms [And Now He's Dead]

One is told not to speak ill of the dead, and even the obit writers of this ill-mannered site usually find some praiseworthy note—Hitler was kind to animals!—in even the shabbiest of lives. But it would be dishonest to pretend that Jesse Helms was anything other than a caricature of a Southern ...

Former N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms Dead At 86

Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of

racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional

fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the

Fourth of July. ...

Jesse Helms Dead at 86

Former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms died this morning, joining John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the distinction of passing on Independence Day. Raleigh’s WTVD notes,

In North Carolina Helms was a polarizing figure, and he freely admitted that many people in the state strongly disliked ...

Racist, homophobe Jesse Helms is dead

NOTE FROM JOHN: Pig.One of the most hateful men in American politics is dead:Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, a North Carolina Republican who became an icon to conservatives, died Friday at the age of 86, a senior congressional source told CNN.Can't even begin to think of anything nice to say about thi ...

Jesse Helms Dead at 86

The conservative firebrand who represented North Carolina in the Senate for five terms until his retirement in 2003 passed away early this morning.

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