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pyat ([personal profile] pyat) wrote2008-07-04 12:07 pm

Creepy Old Guy Dies!

I actually had to Wiki Jesse Helms to find out who he was. I sort of thought he was some kind of radio DJ, or something.

[identity profile] dagoski.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
This makes my 4th of July a lot happier.

[identity profile] foomf.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
He was like a southern, authoritarian, more venal Preston Manning only with more divisive outspokenness and a really vicious way of hurting other people to make his (allegedly) moralistic points.

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually had to Wiki Jesse Helms to find out who he was.

Dear gods, you are blessed with that fact.

[identity profile] bodhifox.livejournal.com 2008-07-04 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't feel bad. The only Canadian politician I can remember is Garry Trudeau. Or was that Pierre? With the hawt wife?