holy shit. holy rolling shit.

"It is interesting to note that the Nobel Peace Prize won't be awarded this year. When one recalls that Martin Luther King got the prize last year, it may be just as well that the committee decided not to award one this year. Perhaps it was too difficult to choose between Stokely Carmichael and Ho Chi Minh." -- Jesse Helms, October 1966

Helms commenting in 1967 on the fact that a disproportionate number of black North Carolina draftees were rejected for mental reasons: "No intelligent Negro citizen should be insulted by a reference to this very plain fact of life. It is time to face honestly and sincerely the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinction in group intellect. ... There is no bigotry either implicit or intended in such a realistic confrontation with the facts of life. ... Those who would undertake to solve the problem by merely spending more money, and by massive forced integration, may be doing the greatest injustice of all to the Negro."

I can't sleep and BookTV has the JESSE HELMS TRIBUTE on. holy shit, y'all.

Highlights so far include:
BEVERLY LA HAYE- who is, indeed, married to TIM LA HAYE - the dude who writes those terrible Left Behind books about Jesus and machine guns

BOB NOVAK (my favorite right-wing shill)

JERRY FALWELL (who's still smarting over that whole sponge bob/ tinky winky thing)

and PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY-the founder of the Eagle Forum, Illinois' 1992 mother of the year and: America's best-known advocate of the dignity and honor that we as a society owe to the role of fulltime homemaker, Mrs. Schlafly is the mother of six children ONE OF WHOM IS GAY, FYI

ALSO, WAYNE LAPIERRE- the CEO of the NRA presented him with a REVOLVER that features a BIBLICAL INSCRIPTION.
Yes, a biblical inscription. on a revolver.

On a side note- In addition to being a fulltime homemaker and the mother of six children, Ms. Schlafly (who would hate being referred to as a MS.) is also A TERRIBLE POET WHO WROTE A POEM. A POEM FOR JESSE HELMS. THAT RHYMED .

This is the most surreal thing I have ever seen in my entire life. There are at least 500 (white) people in the Marriot Crystal Gateway convention room, and I swear to God maybe 12 of them are under 80.

And, oh boy, Jeane Kirkpatrick just spoke and she's obviously suffering from alzheimers or something because she can't finish a single sentence without saying "ummm" and fumbling with her tenses at least twice. "and um, it was, he was, um the man that who could always be, um counted on to be the man, you know, who'd get that, it, things done."

Salute to Senator Jesse Helms
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	Product ID: 188960-1
	Format: Public Affairs Event
	Event Date: September 20, 2005
	Location: Arlington, Virginia
	Last Aired: September 25, 2005
	Length: 1 hour, 49 minutes
Appearances:
Burr, Richard (R) - U.S. Senator, North Carolina
Dodd, John - President, Jesse Helms Center
Dunlop, George - Aide, U.S. Senate, Helms, J. (R-NC)
Falwell, Jerry - Chancellor, Liberty University
Helms, Jesse (R-NC) - U.S. Senator
Keene, David - Chairman, American Conservative Union
Kirkpatrick, Jeane J. - Ambassador, United States, United Nations
LaHaye, Beverly - President, Concerned Women for America
LaPierre, Wayne - Executive Vice President, National Rifle Association
Larson, Reed - Treasurer, National Right to Work Committee
Novak, Robert - Columnist
Schlafly, Phyllis - Founder and President, Eagle Forum
Weyrich, Paul M. - Chairman and CEO, Free Congress Foundation