] "A spokesman for West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd said
] Monday morning that the top Senate Democrat has told him
] he never participated in lynchings, cross burnings or
] other hate crimes against African-Americans while he was
] a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s. "

Good lord! I liked Byrd's comments in the recent Iraq war hearings. The stuff mentioned in this article is clearly aweful. I had no idea. If this stuff catches wind in the major media Byrd will be history. Of course, a similar effort to oust John Ashcroft for similar reasons has yet to really get going. Ashcroft may have done a better job of covering it up.

Sen. Byrd: I Didn't Lynch and Wasn't Racist While in the Klan