Who Said It?

HereÂ’s a quote from the autobiography of a sitting U.S. Senator on the issue of inner city crime and the current state of our judicial system:

"One's life is probably in no greater danger in the jungles of deepest Africa than in the jungles of America's large cities," he writes. "In my judgment, much of the problem has been brought about by the mollycoddling of criminals by some of the liberal judges who have been placed on the nation's courts in recent years."

OK, an unfortunate analogy, but the jist of the passage is that the problem of crime in American urban centers makes them very dangerous to live in and is largely the result of the courts being too lenient in punishing criminal offenders - a difficult argument to refute.

Personally, I would have avoided describing the cities as “jungles” or making any reference to Africa as some in the African-American community might make an inference that would cause them to take offense. It’s in really bad taste and detracts from the point being made.

Now imagine if a prominent Republican leader, say someone like Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, wrote this. The Left and their MSM enablers would be apoplectic in their condemnation of this comment and would be screaming for him to not only relinquish his leadership post but that he should vacate his Senate seat, toots sweet!

But of course this wonÂ’t happen. Why?

Because those words were written by Sen. Robert “Sheets” Byrd – Democrat of West Virginia. Forget the fact that he was also once a Klan member and there should be little doubt about his feelings towards the residents of America’s urban “jungles”. Despite the fact that these words are publish in his memoir, “Child of the Appalachian Coalfields” for anyone in the media to read and report, it took an article in the Washington Times to even make a passing mention of it.

Anyone who wants to see an example of complete hypocrisy from the Left, look no further than they way they treat Sen. Byrd.

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