Conservative icon Jesse Helms dies

Source: wral.com


RALEIGH, N.C. — Jesse Helms, the firebrand U.S. senator whose outspoken, conservative views polarized North Carolina and U.S. voters for decades, died early Friday, according to John Dodd, president of the Jesse Helms Center.
He was 86.
His cause of death was not released.
Helms served five terms in the U.S. Senate, retiring in 2003 because of his faltering health. During his 30 years in Capitol Hill, the North Carolina Republican became a powerful voice for a conservative movement that was growing both in Congress and across the country, and he used his position to speak out against issues like gay rights, federal funding for the arts and U.S. foreign aid.

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Finally.

Let the grave dancing commence...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/04/usa

Roast in hell, Jesse!

Fuck Helms - my only regret is he didn't wind up in prison where he belonged.

now have to put up with this. I Think I will get off my behind and get some grass cutting done.

He was a state champion tuba player in high school. There's a side of Helms that I didn't know.

Hi, Gormy.

how long it took to make a brass instrument back then?

you don't want to know how long it took to make those.

reproduced.

yet to read the rest of the thread.

I'm not going to say that I'm glad he's dead, nor am I going to dance on his grave. I am going to quietly think what I think without adding to what's currently flying around.

Q3JR4.

However, below I have attempted to arouse Puritans into tizzies; I know how much you need it.

He was a carbon based life form.

I honestly would have never suspected. I have a lot of thinking to do now.

The media kept mighty quiet about him.

As a life-long North Carolinian, I have no qualms whatsoever in stating that he was evil personified and the world would have been better off if he'd never been born.

Oh, well. More room for us.

Wishful thinking, maybe ...

The world is a better place without him.

but nobody's had the nerve to tell him for 40 years.

Condolences to his family

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Tell Satan I said HELLo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd62dptmpBk

Before this gets too..well..you know.

over George Carlin's passing. I don't think I'll get over that one for a long time.

made me wanna cry.

but I seriously doubt it.
Helms is one person I won't miss at all. He caused a lot of hurt in his lifetime; that's nothing to celebrate, although I'm sure the media will try real hard.

....crickets.....

You must be just overwhelmed with grief.....


We feel your pain...(where are those dancing penguins when ya need em)

take him down SO many times. It was heartbreaking when he beat Gantt back in the 90's
after his racist campaigning...so yes, I'm glad he's gone.

"What's more frightening than a powerful, racist, homophobic madman in the Senate?

The 250,000 people who voted for him."


I am paraphrasing, not knowing where to begin finding the exact issue and the exact quote, but the gist is the same.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: as an atheist, I'm almost disappointed that I can't believe in hell.

and who they'd be sending now . . .

On the other hand, since the death of Bill Buckley some interesting documents came tumbling

out which suggest that things are not always the way we imagine them ---

Evidently, the CIA was funneling money to Republicans in office thru Howard Hughes company

which provided front companies for them -- two of the Senators named were Sen. Strom

Thurmond and Sen. Gerald Ford.


The destroyers are always way ahead of us, aren't they?

I was just quoting Steel Magnolias earlier today.

As for Jesse, I'll see him in Hell.

Wait, I just posted. Oh well. Crickets.

Enjoy feeding the worms and blowflies, Jesse!

but just add "Bless her/his heart" onto the end of it and you really aren't saying anything "bad" about that person

I have my preferences.

Or do you mean Bozo the Clown died? Now that would be sad.

This guy died:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Harmon

A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.

Oh, yeah. Jesse. So long, dude.

nt

think we are such assholes.

n/t

nt

Karma can be a bitch.

I think the assholes are the ones who don't tell the truth about what a scumbag he was, thus giving him a pass just because he died.

"celebrating" the life of Jesse Helms! It'll all be about what a "great patriot" he was and how the "stinking Liberals were always out to get him!" Just you wait.

They'll make the coverage of Tim Russert look like a wet firecracker.

cooked up against ole Harvey Gant. That showed that "boy" his place in North Carolina. Sort of like what Alex is busy preparing for the O man. Nobody should even care about the death of this racist "cracker".

long the lollapalooza of eulogies will go on? I hope it's another Reaganesque event, just to give people's minds a rest from the regular report to distort musings of the day.

Senate Foreign Affairs Committee...he introduced Benazir Bhutto to the senate as the distinguished prime minister of India. That's his legacy, imo.

Rot in hell, you anti-American piece o' crap.

(First time I've ever posted such a sentiment about such a marginally sentient being.)

Can you imagine? He and ol Strom would have never known what to do with themselves. Now I wish both of them were here so they could see it.

of shrieking bigotry. He truly left no stone unturned. He blazed trails in incorporating seething hatred in his campaign commercials, and character.

Here's a last look at his beloved "racial quota" campaign ad which was written by the same genius who created the "DemocRATS" masterpiece, Alex Castellanos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIyewCdXMzk

Alex Castellanos' remarks on his Helms commercial:
http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/timeline/years/199...



Alex Castellanos



From the Onion....

Helms and his team pioneered the use of sleaze as an election tool. bushco just took it nationwide.

Oops. I wasn't going to post in this thread. Oh well. Bygones.

As a native and life-long resident of North Carolina, I viewed this man as an embarrassment to the state that I love, and someone who pandered to the most disgusting, vile, hate-filled elements of our society. I'm glad to see our state now rid of this pox.

Now as soon as the entire Bush, Cheney and Rove clans are eradicated from this earth, it will be a much gentler planet.

Hmmf.

And that's all I have to say about him.

And to the only way that could possibly silence his brand of bigotry, with apologies to his family.

Where's the poopsmith? He probably dug the whole and filled it with something smelly!

The GOP and McCain will make a big deal out of the fact that Helms passed on the 4th of July just like real patriots Jefferson and Adams did. Helms was no real patriot. While I take no pleasure at his passing I can't get all worked up about it either. Best thing to do is acknowledge his death and move on with life.

Meet you at Oakwood Cemetery just after the burial. I am seriously thinking of having a square dance on his grave.

It is interesting that in general I have compassion for the family when the have such a loss. It is only considerate. For Jessie I have no such feelings at all. His legacy speaks for itself. I have no doubt his soul will experience no peace wherever it ends up (and listening to his beliefs, it is surely being tormented).

J.

Here's a clue for the youngster who wrote the article, He was old!

Anyway I hope the dirt on his grave gets packed down tight.

just to make sure he stays there. Just sayin'.

I certainly don't want that evil bastard rising from the grave.

In the words of Michelle Malkin, "Boo Frickin' Hoo!"

Fascist like George Schultz is still fucking alive, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, George HW Bush, will these lying, hateful, greedy fucks die already!

while those who speak for the downtrodden are assasinated: think Jesus, Ghandi, Martin Luther King jr, RFK. But you know that....

Happy fourth everybody!

That way everyone can safely avoid their TV for an entire month of mourning.

"only the good die young."

So what?

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It seems someone is looking to stir up trouble.

as of 1:10 pm on Friday, "good riddance" is still there.

:rolf:

Hello from Orange County.

this era of hate and racism.

Out with Thurmond and Helms and in with

BARACK AND MICHELLE!!

my partner and I can never forgive him.

Good riddance

really, really, really crappy rental houses in Raleigh. A whole row of them that were decrepit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvJ1Mew6Go

"little shoes" and "Jesse Helms" and found the following:

Hah, hoping for child sex scandals for these douchebags always reminds me of Bill Hicks on Jessie Helms:

"You know that when Jesse Helms finally dies, he's gonna commit suicide out back in a washtub underneath a pecan tree. He's gonna slash his wrists and he's gonna write in blood, "I've been a bad boy." And you know they're gonna find the skins of young kids drying in his attic, swarms of horseflies going in and out of the eaves, and on CNN over and over, his wife going, 'I always wondered about Jesse's collection of little shoes …'"

http://www.strangefamousrecords.com/forum/viewtopic.php...

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Priceless! Thanks.

Good riddance.

Jefferson and Adams, July 4, 1826.

James Monroe, July 4, 1836.

Jesse Helms, July 4, 2008.

Do I really hafta tell you who doesn't "fit" here?

The Confederate flag is flying at half-mast today...

The South still has plenty. As long as there are babies being born in the South, there will be an ample supply of dilweeds who think the CSA was a noble thing.

The Fourth of July. wink wink

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Ding dong, the witch is dead

was the song that came up on the psychobabble shuffle of 4th of July music this afternoon!

...knock on wood!

...watched Helms' editorials on WRAL out of Raleigh because they were completely hilarious, almost as if they were *intended* to be satiric. My brother has stated more than once that it wouldn't have been *nearly* as funny if they'd known he'd end up a Senator, and a powerful one that did serious, long-lasting damage to our country at that.

Thank God he's gone, a shame it didn't happen 86 years earlier.

That is all...

Time for me to crank up Motorheads "Dancing on your Grave", dedicated to the Dishonorable Jesse Helms.

without a phalanx of armed bodyguards?
maybe not verbatim but....
no one investigated possible terrorist threat law violations..

Or 56%.

Not one word ever came out of Helm's mouth that wasn't total bullshit.

"Mr. Clinton better watch out if he comes down here. He'd better have a bodyguard."

Truly classy all of the way.

Rot in hell, you old bastard!

Except to say: I lived in NC from 1982-1998, and I hope he likes roasting marshmallows.

I was originally from Detroit but I was stationed in Camp Lejeune. During that time period there was a senatorial race and Jesse Helms was running against a guy named "Jim" I believe it was the then governor of NC. Jesse Helms ran a commercial where he actually said, "I opposed making Martin Luther King's Birthday a holiday. Where did you stand Jim?"

The backdrop of the commercial was a photo of MLK. I, along with my friends from Chicago and New York were stunned....Sadly, once my tour was over, I couldn't wait to get back north. He left an impression of that south on me that took years to shake....

Ann Arbor