Man that guy was rude and a fuckin racist
She made him run away
Jeff Sessions was a repub and was Assistant United States Attorney and a KKK member...
So? Sen. Robert Byrd was a KKK Grand Kleagle and died in his US Senate seat. Obama praised him at his funeral.
No, actually he wasn't. Nor was Rep. Byrd. That guy quit the Klan years before he ever ran for office at all.
See how you are?
This article is riddled with speciousness. The woman in the video claims "the history of the Klan comes from the Democrat [sic] Party", which is also inaccurate. The Klan was founded (the first iteration) by Confederate soldiers unhappy with the outcome of the war. The second incarnation was founded by a Georgia doctor. None of them, first or second, were affiliated with any political party. Or with politics at all.
Then the article narrative takes over, in relevant part:
>> The facts she cited include KKK history. No Republican Party members of the KKK ever served in an elected federal office. Many democrat [sic] KKK members have. <<
Firstly it's carefully worded "elected
federal office". This is deliberate, so they can avoid acknowledging
Edward Jackson, and
Clarence Morley, who were state governors (not a federal office), David Duke, who was an elected state legislator and Republican party chair; and four members of the
Anaheim City Council. But the qualification still doesn't work, since Senator and Representative
are elected federal offices, which include
James Eli Watson, (Rep and Sen) and
Rice Means (Senator).
It's interesting the article took pains to specify "federal" office, yet failed to capitalize the proper name Democrat.
The article's "many" Democrats thought to have been Klan and elected to federal office amount to a total of two:
Theodore Bilbo (both a governor and Senator) and
George Gordon (Congressman), though by the time Gordon was elected the Klan had already been dead for a quarter-century.
In other words two Klansmen elected to federal office are described as "many members" when they're Democrats, while exactly the same number of Klansmen elected to federal office are called "no members" when they're Republicans.
That's just two sentences from the article and one from the video. I can only imagine how many other we-just-made-it-up errors are in there.
Revisionism: Priceless.