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Blinders
Friday June 8, 2001

  • TITLE: "Blinders" Some members of the media have blinders on when it comes to using the same level of rigor in coverage of Democrats that they use when covering Republicans.

  • "… According to the U.S. Code Title 3, chapter 1, section 19 …" Here is the text in question:
    TITLE 3 - THE PRESIDENT
    CHAPTER 1 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND VACANCIES
    Sec. 19. Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act
    (a) (1) If, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is neither a President nor Vice President to discharge the powers and duties of the office of President, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, upon his resignation as Speaker and as Representative in Congress, act as President.
    (2) The same rule shall apply in the case of the death, resignation, removal from office, or inability of an individual acting as President under this subsection.
    (b) If, at the time when under subsection (a) of this section a Speaker is to begin the discharge of the powers and duties of the office of President, there is no Speaker, or the Speaker fails to qualify as Acting President, then the President pro tempore of the Senate shall, upon his resignation as President pro tempore and as Senator, act as President.

  • "… a member of the Ku Klux Klan …" This, from a 1999 AP story out of West Virginia,

    "Byrd's membership in the Klan, which was an issue in his first campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1952, was raised in a recent book, "When Jim Crow Met John Bull" published by St. Martin's Press. Author Graham Smith found a 1945 letter from Byrd to the late Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo, who strongly backed segregation.
    Byrd, who was 28 when he wrote the letter, told Bilbo he would never fight in an integrated armed forces:
    "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds," he wrote.

  •     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:


    President Bush not being bi-partisan yet AGAIN as he signs the Tax Bill.
    Pictured are seven Republicans and three Democrats --
    all Senators - Miller (GA), Breaux (LA), and Baucus (MT).

    Photo: AP /Ron Edmonds ____________________________________________________________________________________

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