Bye bye Helms

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The Wall Street Journal today has an editorial piece bidding farewell to that "Great Jacksonian" (sic) Jesse Helms. They believe that he should be lauded for his achievements during the civil rights battles of the 60s. Helms' great achievement is that, when blacks in the 60s attempted to assert their civil rights, Helms was not, unlike previous Southern erstwhile segregationists, "directly and openly involved in the murder of black political leaders." Wow, what a big-hearted tolerant fella he is, eh?