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Keseys Ghost Donating Member (649 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 04:43 PM
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Hume Defends Racist Remarks
Edited on Wed Jul-12-06 04:47 PM by Keseys Ghost
And I thought Fox was good for nothing....Our sheriff is now on the national stage:

Hume Defends Racist Remarks
Last night (7/11) on "Special Report with Brit Hume", Hume used his "Two Minutes of Hate" (AKA "Grapevine") segment to promote racism on behalf of Republicans, by misrepresenting and twisting the words of the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain in order to defend him, while attacking the ACLU....

http://www.newshounds.us/2006/07/12/hume_defends_racist_remarks.php

Also, on the local scene:

News Headlines
Strain stands by comments


Flanked by, from left, NAACP Regional Director Claude Foster, NAACP Gulf Coast Advocacy Center Director Tracie Washington and NAACP state president Kwame Asante, Greater Covington NAACP President Annie Spell speaks in front of the St. Tammany Justice Center, asking St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain to retract comments he made concerning individuals with "dreadlocks" or "chee weez" hairstyles. (Staff Photo by Suzanne Le Breton)

http://www.thesttammanynews.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/news01.txt







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Suich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-12-06 04:52 PM
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1. When I first heard Strain's remarks, I was floored.
Sorry you're stuck with him!

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