In 2007, you can still find an actual Congressperson from the White Men Are Best Party who feels no shame about embellishing speeches with quaint little quotes from a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
I kid you not.
"Yesterday on the House floor, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) argued that the United States needs to immediately authorize funds for the war in Iraq. . . To make his case, he quoted “successful Confederate general” Nathan Bedford Forrest, but left out the fact that Forrest was also one of the original Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan." [via]
Quoting Nathan Bedford Forrest on the Congressional floor!?! In 2007? Apparently, members of terrorist organizations have said some very profound things. Or not. Here's the quote: “Git thar fustest with the mostest.”
Both Roll Call and the Carpetbagger Report note that not only does Ted Poe quote KKK founding member Nathan Bedford Forrest, but the Republican confounds his error by misquoting the Grand Wizard of the terrorist organization. Any day now, expect Rep. Ted Poe from Texas to be embellishing speeches with quotes from Al-Qaeda.
I'd ask what's wrong with these people, but what else can you expect from the incestuous White Men Are Best Party?
Where does the Republican Party find all these old time white men?
And why, in 2007, does a Tennessee public university have a campus building named after the Grand Wizard?
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