Clinton Defends Byrd's KKK Ties: "He Was Trying To Get Elected"

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Just wondering, would the media or liberal elites generally be as gracious upon the death of a long serving conservative Senator by generally ignoring something like this in a Republican Senator's past? Furthermore, it is not quite accurate for Clinton to call his association with the Klan "fleeting." The truth is that Byrd joined the KKK in 1942 and was a leader of his chapter. He wrote a letter praising the KKK in 1947 and defended the Klan in his Senate run in 1958. He voted against both Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas and he filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.