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R.I.P., Jesse Alexander Helms Jr. (1921-2008)

Jesse Helms, the five-term U.S. senator from North Carolina, died this past Independence Day in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was 86 years old.

Obituaries generally described him as a colorful conservative noted for his patriotism and broadsides against liberals. GOP Senate leader Mitch McConnell said that Helms' "stature in Congress had few equals. He was a leading voice and courageous champion." President Bush said the nation had lost "a kind, decent, and humble man."

But let's tell the truth.

Throughout his three decades in the Senate, Jesse Helms was a mean-spirited white supremacist with a long career as a bully, a bigot, a race-baiter, and a racist of the meanest sort.

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