Photo of the Day: Jesse Helms

[JackBeck]

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Aristus]

2. K&R.

Ol' Jesse got his wish: Marriage-equality happened over his dead body...

[NV Whino]

5. Good one!

[hifiguy]

3. Kick and rec!

I had managed not to think about that sick, racist sack of pustulent monkeyshit for a very long while. But that pic is just TOO sweet.

[AverageJoe90]

4. A fitting picture, indeed.....nt

[Arugula Latte]

6. Hope he's spinning like a chicken on a rotisserie.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. See if you can find him in here. I think I found something like Ole Jesse in such a pose once ...

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[progressoid]

7. Rec!

[mnhtnbb]

8. That's a good one!

What a racist, bigoted, pile of crap that a$$hole was.

[shenmue]

20. Yep

I was so relieved when he kicked the bucket!

[Paladin]

9. That evil old motherfucker. So glad he's gone.

[barbtries]

10. is he turning in there?

or burning...
hehehe

[MontyPow]

11. I always thought of him in the context of being a racist, not a homophobe.

I suspect he was both.

[Zen Democrat]

12. He was a homophobe. Does anyone remember Michael Moore bringing a men's gay chorus to sing

in front of Jesse's house in North Carolina? It was hilarious.

[MontyPow]

13. I never knew that. That is awesome!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

29. Yes, I remember the Sodomobile van.

Hilarious.

[Bluenorthwest]

33. Jesse was a homophobe and a racist, world class in both fields.

Here's a link to a collection of his top 10 quotes which was published upon the occasion of his death. It should prove his full blown racism and his obsessive homophobia to anyone who wonders....
http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2008/07/07/top-ten-quotes-from-jesse-helms

[MADem]

52. Yes, he did that for his series TV NATION, in front of Helms' Senate OFFICE AND HOME.

The Sodomobile -- and a visit to Trent Lott's home, as well as a bit of fun with the Westboro haters, was for his series "The Awful Truth."

Moore looks very young in this clip.

[Jamastiene]

43. He was a raging homophobe, not just a homophobe.

He was one of the worst homophobes for a long time. He was known as Senator NO because of the fact that he always voted against AIDS funding, until Bono talked him into it somehow one time close to the end there. He still hated gay people even then.

[Drunken Irishman]

46. Jesse Helms in his own words.

"Nothing positive happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and nothing positive is likely to happen to America if our people succumb to the drumbeats of support for the homosexual lifestyle. "

[JackBeck]

55. Best act of civil disobedience ever...

FYI: it wasn't ACT-UP, but a subsidiary of ACT-UP called TAG (now formally known as Treatment Action Group) who organized this amazing action.

[irisblue]

15. you are not missed Jesse.evil man

[blkmusclmachine]

16. Bwahaha

[JI7]

17. he died about 4 months too soon

wish he had lived to see the results of the 2008 presidential election.

[RufusTFirefly]

18. I feel sorry for him.

Try as I may, I can't hate anyone. Not even some of the shameless trolls on this board.
He probably had some serious psychological problems that he never worked out or had a hole where his heart belonged, and he hurt a lot of people as a result. Unfortunately, our system seems to reward this sort of sociopathic behavior if you happen to be privileged.

[eggplant]

24. Being an asshole is not a mental illness.

Please don't try to equate the two. It demeans those people actually suffering from mental illness.

He wasn't a sociopath. There were lots of people he cared about, and lots that he didn't. He was a bigot and an asshole. Nothing more.

[Jamastiene]

44. Thank you.

[rpannier]

47. I'm not sure what he was except for one thing. He was a political opportunist

He was practically the founder of the idea that 50+1 is all he needed
He was the only Senator that would hire one of the University students who had to be lead into the University in Mississippi then turned around and used it as a shield against his appeal to unhappy whites

He was an ass and a prick. Beyond that, he was an opportunist which makes him worse than someone like Lester Maddox or Marvin Griffin, men who truly believed in what they said and pursued their racist agendas

[Jamastiene]

45. So, you see setting a newspaper next to his headstone and snapping

a pictures as "hate?" You might need to pace yourself if you see that as hate, because what the GLBT community has to put up with from people who think like he did is much worse, as in raped/beaten to death worse. The mental illness comment was way out of line too.

[SoapBox]

19. I hope he's out of his mind over this...

And NOT resting in peace.

[ColesCountyDem]

21. And he never married.

Just sayin'....

[JackBeck]

22. Just sayin'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Helms#Personal_life

Jesse and Dot had three children: Jane, Nancy of Raleigh, and Charles Helms of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Charles was a nine-year-old orphan with cerebral palsy who they adopted after reading in a newspaper that Charles wanted a mother and father for Christmas. The couple had seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

[ColesCountyDem]

23. Oops!

I was doing research at findagrave.com and just looked him up, and it listed no spouse or children.

[VA_Jill]

25. When my daughter was a senior in HS

we were touring a college in NC that had offered her a scholarship. Unfortunately their activity center was named for Jesse, and she whispered to me, "Mom, if I come here I'm going to have to give that plaque the finger every time I go in and out!" She ended up not going there, but for other reasons.

[calimary]

26. Ahh jesse! I see you're finally where you can do the most good.

I remember when he died. Ironically enough, comically enough, on Independence Day. Independence from HIM, that's for sure! A day well worth celebrating.

[rocktivity]

27. AND he died on the Fourth Of July!

rocktivity

[hifiguy]

28. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were, I am sure,

NOT amused.

[DonCoquixote]

30. I hate to give credence to the idea of Hell

But if it ever existed, you have just seen it captured in Photo form. You know Jesse is burning mad right now

[Bluenorthwest]

31. This photo is very pleasing and I thank you for it.

Jesse was a hateful old fuck.

[bigwillq]

32. Great pic!

K and R

[marions ghost]

34. Love it!

[Erose999]

35. Dig him up and see if he's spinning.

[lunasun]

36. Time to Dance!

[Orsino]

37. I really don't appreciate grave-dancing.

However, I dislike it exponentially less than I do what Helms helped to do to this country and the world.

[Godot51]

38. Jesse...

... another southern raging redneck. I don't believe in gods, devils, heavens or hells but I'd make an exception to see him burn as he deserves for all the evil he managed to do. I guess that makes me as bad as he but...

[TerrapinFlyer]

40. "another southern raging redneck'

that's saying it kindly

[bobclark86]

39. Oh, that's just spiking the ball... n/t

[The Wizard]

41. Marker on a toxic waste site (NT)

[Initech]

42. Ha ha ha, I love it!

[Stellar]

48. I guess that's what's meant by ...

'over my dead body'....

[CRK7376]

49. What a beautiful picture!

Roast Jesse Roast!

[MADem]

50. What's that whirring sound I hear....?

They should hook him up to a generator--he could probably power both Carolinas for a week with all the energy he's putting out!

[Beacool]

51. Good old Jesse must be spinning in his grave.

Pity he wasn't around to see it.

[czarjak]

53. Ted Cruz said...

"We need a hundred Jesse Helms' in the Senate." Wouldn't that be marvelous?

[treestar]

54. Looks like the world moved on, Jesse

In spite of your best efforts