How else do you explain the heroic portrait of a man who is likely responsible for the murder of Americans while a member of a terrorist organization in this sample chapter of Al Gore’s new book The Assault on Reason. In this chapter Klansman Robert Byrd is lionized in a way a man that once favored lynchings should never be, no matter how many half hearted apologies he makes. Michelle Malkin’s essay on Byrd from The Jewish World Review contains all the information you need about why she, I and any other minority would be absolutely disgusted by a man that so lovingly embraces Byrd:
The ex-Klansman allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. Republicans in West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the group. He wrote: “The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia” and “in every state in the Union.”
The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act — supported by a majority of those “mean-spirited” Republicans — for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the nominations of the Supreme Court’s two black justices, liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. In fact, the ex-Klansman had the gall to accuse Justice Thomas of “injecting racism” into the Senate hearings. Meanwhile, author Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed forces.
In other words it is doubtful Byrd ever quit the Klan at all, but as America woke up to the threat posed by Klansmen Byrd pretended to disassociate himself from them to carry out their un-American agenda covertly. Byrd was against the Iraqi War not because he was more reasonable than all the other congressmen but because Baathism, with its ingrained hatred of Jews and Homosexuals, is appealing to Klansmen. Byrd was against the war in Iraq because it had the potential to spread libertarian ideals of equality and respect throughout an area of the world where most Arabs, fellow Caucasians if you ask the average Klansman, have beliefs similar to what is preached by seditious racists in this country.
That is why the Aryan Nations supported Iran’s kidnapping of the British sailors, why David Duke refers to the Gaza Strip as “Israel’s concentration camp” and why the Ku Klux Klan repeats Islamist propaganda about the “satanic nature” of Judeo-Christian culture. Gore’s heroic portrait of Byrd, a man who has suspiciously promoted the views of White Nationalism time and time again, is the true assault of reason. Al Gore wants Americans to use logic and reason to deduce the truth of the political situation, but won’t stop and give a moment’s thought to whether or not a man who tried to block the Civil Rights Act is an appropriate example for heroism.