Robert C Byrd Dies

[Abe Sargent]

All West Virginians are sad.

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[JPhillips]

Countdown to thread implosion.....

[molson]

We hardly knew ye, Exalted Cyclops

[Sun Tzu]

Wait a minute...there are people in West Virginia?

[molson]

Wait a minute...there are people in West Virginia?

Of course there are, silly.

Here's one now:

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[Wolfpack]

I saw elsewhere someone ask whether there was anything else in West Virginia that could get his name on it. One of the replies was a tombstone. :D

Not that I speak ill of the guy, but given all the federal money he successfully channeled to the state, about the only things not named for him are the cities and towns and the state itself.

[fantom1979]

The line of succession laws really need to be changed. 3rd in line (behind Biden and Pelosi) is now 85 year old Senator Inouye.

[Abe Sargent]

I actually cried twice last night. I've only cried at two other famous people dying - Johnny Cash and Fred Rogers.

[JediKooter]

Are they going to bury him in his Klan robes?

[Ksyrup]

Politics and racism aside, I've never gotten over that 20/20 interview he did with John Stossel where Stossel confronted him about all of the pet projects he got funded, and Byrd came off as such a conceited, arrogant asshole I've hated him ever since. His "twaddlizing" comment has stuck with me for I don't know how many years. I can still see that smug bastard's face in that interview...


When the Democrats held power, I confronted Sen. Robert Byrd about wasting our money on "Robert Byrd Highway"-type projects in West Virginia. His answer was as arrogant as he was: "I would think that the national media could rise above the temptation of being clever, decrepitarian critics who twaddlize, just as what you're doing right here."

"Twaddlizing?" I asked.

"Trivializing serious matters," he explained.

I persisted, "Is there no limit? Are you not at all embarrassed about how much you got?" Byrd glared at me in silence, and finally demanded, angrily, "Are you embarrassed when you think you're working for the good of the country? Does that embarrass you?"

[JediKooter]

Politics and racism aside, I've never gotten over that 20/20 interview he did with John Stossel where Stossel confronted him about all of the pet projects he got funded, and Byrd came off as such a conceited, arrogant asshole I've hated him ever since. His "twaddlizing" comment has stuck with me for I don't know how many years. I can still see that smug bastard's face in that interview...

How dare Stossel question his awthoritah!!