WHAT’S THE SENATE’S EX-KLANSMAN UP TO?

By Michelle Malkin  •  January 20, 2005 01:53 AM

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Democratic Sen. Robert “Sheets” Byrd, past recruitment officer for the KKK and former advocate of racial segregation, has announced that he will obstruct the confirmation of the first African-American woman to be nominated to be Secretary of State.

And if you don’t think that’s exactly how CBS and the rest of the MSM would have played the story if Byrd were a Republican and Rice a Democratic nominee, I have some genuine Bush National Guard documents to sell you.

Column flashback: Sen. Robert Byrd, ex-Klansman

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