Whitewash

This photo, taken at the memorial service for Robert Byrd, makes it look like these three are chuckling over the snow job they laid out to repair the late Senator's image.

They dismissed and used revisionist history with regards to his past in the Ku Klux Klan(KKK).

President Obama led the way with, "He said there are some things I regretted in my youth...".

Here's what Byrd regretted, "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."

Bill Clinton noted, "He once had a fleeting association with the Ku Klux Klan, what does that mean? I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollows from West Virginia. He was trying to get elected."

Byrd's "fleeting association" began when he recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the KKK because it "offered excitement".

It wasn't until after his "fleeting association" began that suddenly lights flashed in my mind when a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation."

Byrd felt, "Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."

Byrd then went on to serve as a Kleagle, an official recruiter who signed up members for $10 a head, and Exalted Cyclops, the top officer in the local Klan unit.

Byrd "was trying to get elected" and won that election unanimously.

It seemed Vice President Joe Biden resurrected a speech he gave for the Big Lug Nut (and the scientific community is united in that fact) when he said, "This is a guy who continued to taste, smell and feel the suffering of the people of his state."

It was May in Cedar Rapids when Biden blurted about Culver, "...Folks who live it, who smell it, who taste it, who know it...".

One can't help but wonder when West Virginia will be renamed Byrdland, most everything else in the state bears his name thanks to your tax dollars.

They call me 'The Pork King,' they don't know how much I enjoy it." - Sen. Robert Byrd