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Billy Graham & the Rise of the Republican South: An Interview With Historian Steven P. Miller

by: Intrepid Liberal Journal

Sun Jun 07, 2009 at 20:51:20 PM EDT

The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal.

In the age of Barack Obama, both the Republican Party as well as the South appear marginalized and out of step with the rest of America. Yet it wasn't so long ago that the South represented the foundation of America's conservative hegemony. Starting with Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, the Republican Party prevailed in nine out of the next fourteen presidential elections with a reliable Southern base.

Specifically, the Republican Party exploited white Southern resentment against the cause of civil rights and integration. The "Southern strategy" as it was later called, enabled Republicans to end the Democratic Party's previous domination of the South following the Civil War. A key figure in that realignment was the renowned evangelist Billy Graham.

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Bush is the All. Time. Champ.

by: phillip anderson

Tue Nov 06, 2007 at 14:21:42 PM EST

At having people hate his guts, that is. It was a monumental task, but George W. Bush has finally surpassed Richard Nixon as the most unpopular president in history.

Meanwhile, Bush reached an unwelcome record. By 64%-31%, Americans disapprove of the job he is doing. For the first time in the history of the Gallup Poll, 50% say they "strongly disapprove" of the president. Richard Nixon had reached the previous high, 48%, just before an impeachment inquiry was launched in 1974.

Heckuva job, Shrub.

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OMG Roger Stone's Nixon Tattoo: Worst. Alibi. Ever.

by: phillip anderson

Fri Sep 07, 2007 at 18:26:13 PM EDT

Every time I think that the whole Roger Stone story can't become any weirder, Roger himself smacks me upside the head with something truly effin' bizarre. So, Stone's newest alibi (Friday 9/7/07 approx 6pm EST) is that he couldn't have placed that nasty call to Bernard Spitzer because he was in California GETTING TRICKY DICK'S FACE TATTOOED ON HIS BACK. No, Really.

You just can't make this stuff up.

Roger Stone — former CREEP dirty trickster, occasional Fox contributor, Al Gore fan — is trying to avoid blame for having called and abused Eliot Spitzer’s dad. He was forced to abandon his original alibi after it turned out there were no performances of Frost/Nixon that night. So, instead, he claims he was in Venice Beach, CA getting a tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face. Look, you can kind of see it in the mirror there. But don’t look too close! Your eyes will melt!

Un-effin' real.

Oh, and nice mirror placement, eh?

I give up, Mr. Stone. You, uh, win. Or something. I'm gonna go pour a drink or 5.

UPDATE: Apparently he got this tattoo the day the story about the phone call broke, as Wonkette reveals in this update:

Update: Ok we clearly didn't understand this at all. Stone got the tattoo the day he was accused of making the call, not on the day the call was made. So it's more of a "fuck you" than an alibi.

Wow. Completely unhinged.

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