The loyal and lovely [color=#C0392B]Comrade Putout[/color] wrote:Speaking of pants... where are they?

The lovely and astute [color=#C0392B]Fraulein Frankenfeinstein[/color] wrote:Poor Comrade Rangel is forgetting that the "white crackers holding back civil rights" were Democrats.(cough cough) never be minding.

[color=#C0392B]Michael Barone[/color] wrote:

MSNBC's Chris Hayes, who seems like a nice (fixed this for Mr. Barone) person, got caught making a huge historical mistake; he said George Wallace, the Alabama Governor who defied a desegregation order 50 years ago, was a Republican. Nope. He was a Democrat and ran in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1964, 1972 and 1976; he also ran for president as a third party candidate in 1968. Hayes either didn't know that - surprisingly for a political commentator - or temporarily and perhaps conveniently forgot it. Or maybe he just figures that all political villains are Republicans. In any case he apologized for what he, appropriately, called 'a stupid, inexcusable, historically illiterate mistake.'

Here's another fact he and others may want to keep in mind as we remember the climactic events of the civil rights movement 50 years ago: Bull Connor, the Birmingham police commissioner who turned fire hoses and police dogs on peaceful civil rights demonstrators, was a Democrat too.