There's an irony here somewhere, I just know it.

[tzikeh]

Jesse Helms has died on the 4th.

And no, I'm not sorry he's dead. I'm sorry for his grieving family; it's terrible to lose a loved one. But I'm not sorry he's dead.

No caffeine yet - anyone got a punchline?

ETA: Some words of wisdom from the great man himself:

“It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease.” -- on homosexuality and AIDS.

"To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing." -- on criticism that a newspaper cartoon of a black person was offensive.

"[President] Clinton better watch out if he comes down here [to North Carolina]. He'd better have a bodyguard." -- on then-President Clinton's supposed unpopularity with the North Carolina military. According to Helms (and refuted by military personnel), the military was likely to shoot Clinton if he came to North Carolina.

"Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior." -- from the text of a fundraising mailer sent out by the Helms campaign.

Comments

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Besides wishing it had happened 50 years ago? Nope. Got nothing.

[carbonel]

How about "Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it"?

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I didn't agree with his viewpoints, but as a fellow North Carolinian I'm sad that he's passed away :( One summer I attended an economic summer camp at the Jesse Helms Center (a private foundation in Wingate, North Carolina) and it was very...interesting. Almost to the point of brain-washing :/

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

What was it the Onion said when some other scumbag died? "Satan opened his gates and welcomed his most beloved son." Sounds about right.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

"He's a Yankee Doodle Dead Guy,
But we're never gonna cry.
A real-life bigot who detested blacks,
He died on the Fourth of July.
Hated gays and evolution,
Ignorant until he died--
Uncle Jesse was a bigot and we're glad he's gone--
So let's sing to him, "Yankee Doodle, Die!"

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

This song parody brough to you by Secular Humanists "R" Us.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I LOVE IT.

[vass]

"[President] Clinton better watch out if he comes down here [to North Carolina]. He'd better have a bodyguard." -- on then-President Clinton's supposed unpopularity with the North Carolina military. According to Helms (and refuted by military personnel), the military was likely to shoot Clinton if he came to North Carolina.

So that's where The West Wing got it. :-(