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Dig A Hole: Jesse Helms is finally dead!

July 4th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Another piece of s–t has forever been scraped from off the shoe sole of life. “Morally sick” homosexuals and “Negroes” will rest better tonight knowing that on this, America’s Independence Day, they are forever free of the hate-spewing North Carolina Republican. Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms is at last where he belongs. He died Friday at the age of 86.

While the cause of death has not been announced, it’s safe to say that it wasn’t AIDS.

Helms’ first full-time job after college was as a sports reporter with The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1942 he married Dorothy Coble, who was the newspaper’s society reporter. During the war Helms served stateside as a naval recruiter. He eventually became the city news editor of the Raleigh Times, and later moved to radio and television.

Helms began his career in politics as an unofficial researcher for Willis Smith, a conservative Democratic lawyer, former president of the American Bar Association and staunch supporter of racial segregation, who successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1950.

Before launching a media career, Helms was executive director of the North Carolina Bankers Association. In 1960 he became the executive vice-president, vice chairman of the board, and assistant chief executive officer of the Raleigh-based Capitol Broadcasting Company. The folksy editorials, which he delivered at the end of each night’s local news broadcast, made Helms a local phenomenon.

In 1972, after announcing his candidacy for a seat in the United States Senate, Helms went on to win the Republican primary with 60.1 percent of the vote.

When Helms retired in 2003 after serving five terms, President Bush said, “Sen. Helms has been a tireless defender of our nation’s freedom and a champion of democracy abroad.” He mourned the Senate for “losing an institution.” Let’s let the record speak for itself regarding exactly what type of institutionalized modes of living Sen. Helms represented:

  • In 1950, the distinguished Senator helped create a campaign ad that read, “White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? (Democratic candidate) Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.” So this is where KKK big muckety-muck Daniel Carver got his inspiration to “Wake up, white people!”
  • Helms blamed blacks, gays and lesbians for “the proliferation of AIDS.” He took acceptance to the use of the word “gay” to describe homosexuals since, “…there’s nothing gay about them.”
  • Helms dubbed The University of North Carolina, “the University of Negroes and Communists.”
  • Black civil rights activists were “Communists and sex perverts.”
  • During the 1963 Civil Rights protests Helms wrote, “The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.”
  • In 1983, Helms launched a Senate filibuster opposing the Martin Luther King Day bill on grounds that King had two commie associates. He also disapproved of King’s alleged philandering.
  • In 1988, he observed, “There is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy.”
  • According to the Chicago Sun-Times, in 1993 Helms sang Dixie in an elevator to Carol Moseley-Braun, the first African-American woman elected to the Senate, bragging, “I’m going to make her cry. I’m going to sing Dixie until she cries.”
  • When Roberta Achtenberg was appointed Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1993, Helms refused to vote for her “because she’s a damn lesbian.”
  • In a 1994 Newsweek article Helms declared homosexuality “degenerate,” and homosexuals “weak, morally sick wretches.”
  • In his memoirs, Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker noted that Helms had “the ‘humorous habit’” of calling all black people “Fred”.

And still, in spite of all the damning evidence against him, the Associated Press‘ list of Helms’ quotes on life and politics mentioned only one derisive comment. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate’s Republican leader said, “Today we lost a senator whose stature in Congress had few equals. Sen. Jesse Helms was a leading voice and courageous champion for the many causes he believed in.” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said, “America lost a great public servant and true patriot today.”

I take back what I said earlier. Wake up, non-white people. The enemy is still at our gate.

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Don Imus strikes again; Questions Pacman’s color

June 24th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Meeting of the Minds

Last year, Don Imus, was fired for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball a bunch of “nappy-headed hos.’’

The only person that came to Imus’ defense in the wake of the scandal was Howard Stern who suggested that his arch rival not only refuse to apologize, but that he tell all his detractors to ‘f’ off because he was only making a joke.

Instead, Imus cried like a baby to anyone that would listen. MSNBC was the first to cancel their simulcast of Imus In The Morning. The next day, CBS radio canceled his syndicated show, effective immediately. Late last year Imus returned to the airwaves on ABC Radio and RFD-TV.

This morning, an exchange with sportscaster Warren Wolf produced another racially charged crack. In hopes that people might forget his record of multiple arrests in recent years, suspended professional football player Adam “Pacman’’ Jones asked that people stop referring to him by his nickname.

Mr. Imus queried, “What color is he?’’

“He’s African-American,’’ Mr. Wolf responded.

“Well, there you go,’’ Mr. Imus said. “Now we know.’’

What’s all the fuss about? Isn’t Pacman yellow?

According to the New York Times, “Asked in an e-mail message what he was trying to convey, Mr. Imus wrote: ‘I meant he was being picked on because he’s black.’’ He added that Dick Gregory, a veteran comedian and activist who is black, would be a guest on his show on Tuesday, to discuss the death of George Carlin. ‘We’ll see what he thinks,’’ Mr. Imus wrote. ‘I mean…come on!’’’

In an instant, Al Sharpton’s beeper went off prompting the professional media whore to write:

“It has been reported to me that statements were made by Mr. Imus this morning and National Action Network has monitored his show since his return. I find the inference of his remark disturbing because it plays into stereotypes. Any use of stereotypes is always counterproductive. We will determine in the next day or so whether or not his remark warrants direct action on our part as we did in April of last year.”

Would Al Sharpton have jumped down Imus’ throat had he made Polish or Jew jokes? Aren’t we all God’s children, Al? If anything, Sharpton is equally racist for making a career out of only coming to the defense of African Americans.

Everything I know about Imus has been filtered through Howard Stern. Out of blind loyalty to The King of All Media, I have never heard one word of Imus’ radio show. While scanning the television dial I’d stop on MSNBC long enough to have a cheap laugh at his fossilized remains.

Is Dom Imus racist? You bet, but I don’t formulate my opinion on the basis of his past two highly publicized blunders. Once again I yield to the power of Stern who revels in retelling Imus’ righteous indignation when he called WNBC employee Janie the Cleaning Lady the ‘n’ word. Howard’s sidekick Robin Quivers also accused Imus of calling her a “n” to her face when she worked with him.

The guy undoubtedly has anger issues and racist leanings, but getting punished for these two instances is similar to John Wayne winning his Oscar for True Grit: Right person, wrong time. In his latest tirade, the only thin Imus is guilty of is unbridled stupidity. Yes, it’s a comedy show, but given the problems in his recent past, he shouldn’t use the word “black” even when describing licorice.

Ms. Pacman declined Emulsion Compulsion’s request for an interview.

The “Nappy-Headed Hos” Incident

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Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: “Shut your face!”

June 6th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Taking time away from his busy schedule of making movies that no one sees, Spike Lee decided to generate much needed publicity by broadsiding master filmmaker Clint Eastwood.

Spike is miffed because Clint failed to include African American actors in his Oscar-winning World War II films Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. Never mind that Letters, which assumes the Japanese point-of-view, is one of Hollywood’s few intelligent productions aimed at pointing up the ignorance in racism, to Spike it simply wasn’t the right race.

Spike’s energy would have been to better use were he to have complained about the timeworn drunken Indian stereotypes littered throughout Flags’ screenplay.

Clint explained that the black troops that did take part in the 1945 battle were assigned to munitions companies and had no part in the flag-raising moment that is the focus of Flags. “The story is Flags of Our Fathers,’the famous flag-raising picture, and they didn’t do that. If I go ahead and put an African-American actor in there, people’d go: ‘This guy’s lost his mind.’ I mean, it’s not accurate.” Referring to Lee, Clint added: “A guy like him should shut his face.”

Lee quickly responded, telling ABC News on Friday that Eastwood’s comments surprised him.

“First of all, the man is not my father and we’re not on a plantation either,” he said. Remember, telling someone to shut up is tantamount to endorsing slavery.

“He’s a great director,” Lee continued. “He makes his films, I make my films. The thing about it though, I didn’t personally attack him. And a comment like ‘a guy like that should shut his face’ — come on Clint, come on. He sounds like an angry old man right there.”

And you don’t listen well, do you aaaaaaasshole!

Spike Sharpton told AOL News, “If he wishes, I could assemble African-American men who fought at Iwo Jima and I’d like him to tell these guys that what they did was insignificant and they did not exist. I’m not making this up. I know history. I’m a student of history. And I know the history of Hollywood and its omission of the one million African-American men and women who contributed to World War II.”

Than why not make a movie about them, Spike? Oh, you did! And Miracle at St. Anna is currently in post-production due for US release in October? Looks like Lee’s way of starting the promotional bandwagon is to crap on two-year old films in order to make his upcoming gift look better.

As these pictures from The National Archives prove, Spike was certainly correct about their being African American soldiers on the beach at Iwo Jima. (According to the site, “over 2.5 million African-American men registered for the draft.”) Eastwood’s films never set out to prove that World War II was an all-white battle, nor were any of the characters intrinsic to his story black.

When asked how St. Anna will stack up against Saving Private Ryan, Lee said “Steven Spielberg’s a great filmmaker. I’ve always respected his work but this is totally different.” (Why isn’t Spike up in arms about the lack of African Americans in Schindler’s List? From what I’ve read, as far as Hitler was concerned, blacks were third in line behind Jews and gays.)

Student of history Lee dumps all over Clint and goes on to call the man that made The Color Purple “a great filmmaker.” Anyone want to buy my copy of Bamboozled?

“Ooooohh! What the f@#&’s wrong with you? Where do you get your balls big enough to say that to him? Are you out of your f@#&ing mind? He eats s%@# like you for breakfast. Now I want you to go over there and f@#&ing apologize to him, you hear what I’m saying? And personally I don’t give a f%$@ what color you are. if I ever catch you speaking out of line to Mr. Eastwood again, I’ll f@#&ing kill you myself, pure and simple.”

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