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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

Jesse Helms dies on July 4th

Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86.
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  • Friday, July 4, 2008 04:56 PM

    What I find interesting

    is how many of the ones crying "you're so mean!" are the folks who regularly point fingers and call others nasty names in these pages. They are themselves no strangers to the kind of ugly bigotry that Helms made popular, but let people who are different from them take a single opportunity to lambast a monster, and suddenly they're on the side of civility.

    As Captain Buck Murdoch said, "I guess irony can be pretty ironic."

    —Serai1 Read Serai1's other letters

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