RUPUBLICAN VIRGINIA FOXX MAKES EMBARRASSING MISTAKE ON CIVIL RIGHTS BILL OF THE 60'S.wmv

Republican Virginia Foxx isn't crazy like one, she's just crazy . Apparently she's wrong on history also . Foxx accused Democrats of revising history over the passage of the Civil Rights bill of the 1960's . She claimed more Republicans passed that bill then Democrats ? Chris Mathews correctly revises Foxx's incorrect revision against falsely accused "revisionist" , the Democrats .Ha..., confused ? Just watch the video .

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[LarcheOsborne]

Hell, I was a kid in one of the segregated schools back in the 60's and 70s. I remember the Republicans making inroads into the South because of the Democratic support of Civil Rights. Yet I constantly hear conservatives constantly repeating that same tired myth about the Republican support of the Civil Rights movement. It was always liberals at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement. Conservatives were wrong on ecology, Civil Rights, Iraq, and they are wrong on healthcare and gay rights.

[GreyBuzzer]

Typical rewrite of history by a republican

[GIBal54]

LBJ was a racist himself so Chris Matthews is quoting a man that showed "The Birth of A Nation" in the white house... Lets not forget after he signed the bill: "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years."

[jokr8790]

That's what Lee Atwater's "Southern Strategy" was all about. Getting Southerners to line up and vote Democratic by opposing civil rights.

[UncleJer410]

Very clever Mr. Mathews, stating numbers of votes rather PERCENTAGE. Over 80% of Republicans voted for the bill, whereas on 60% of Dems voted for it. The Democratic party has a long history of racism and violence (KKK).

[el100783]

@Lifehearted Im glad that that is what you took from that. I will just refer you to the comment above you left by LarcheOsborne. Leave the issue of Democrat/Republican alone in reference to the civil rights movement, because it is irrelevant. Liberalism isn't synonymous with the Democratic party, and definitely was not the synonymous in 64.

[melskilove]

The point isn't Republicans and Democrats it's racist white people vs Non Racist White People..And the Non Racist White People won THATS DOING GODS WORK MY FRIEND ..

[Lifehearted]

Strom Thurmond did vote against the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after becoming a Republican. However, only 1 other Republican joined him. There were 17 Democrats that joined Thurmond to vote against the VRA of 1965. In the House, 61 Democrats voted against the VRA. So, racism was still alive and well in the Democrat party one whole year after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. History clearly shows that Democrats are hypocrites to always try to put the racist label on Republicans.

[bke274]

He voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as a Republican. He supported Barry Goldwater over LBJ as a Republican.

He didn't have a change of heart regarding civil rights in 1964 that caused him to switch parties. He merely saw that the Dems were going the direction of Hubert Humphrey and the GOP was going the direction of Goldwater. In other words he didn't leave the Democratic Party as much as the Democratic Party left him.

[Lifehearted]

It is true that Strom Thurmond switched parties but all the other racist democrats stayed in the party including Robert Byrd who continued to use the N-word three decades later (and probably still does). Thurmond committed his gross injustices against African-Americans as a democrat, including his record 24-hour filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.