White Fat Guy History Month!
“We are not supremacist group, though we have happened to have created the greatest Facebook group ever”
April 2, 2009
Jesse Helms
Legislator, Dixiecrat, Newsman, probably not the wolfman.
Jesse Helms was the first Republican elected to Statewide office in North Carolina since the end of reconstruction. He served in the Senate for 30 years. In 2002 he hosted Bono in his office in D.C. to discuss the AIDS epidemic in Africa. While this did little to actually stop the AIDS epidemic, or improve Bono or Helms’ public image it did produce one of the great headlines of our decade, ” ‘Senator ‘No’ shows he is Pro-Bono”.* He died last summer after a long courageous battle with life, he was 86. Sadly, in spite of his best efforts, he never did manage to catch that “Wascally Wabbit”.
We he are at WFGH would like to apologize to the family of the late Senator Helms, as we may have been a little hasty in our obituary last July when we called him the wolfman. As it turns out, Michael J. Fox was not an actual werewolf but just pretending to be one in a popular 80’s movie. So when the Spin City star bit the Senator in 1992, he probably did not infect him with a virus that made him thirst for blood and howl at the moon. Also, in our defense, Greensboro Coroners Office did not make it explicitly clear whether or not he was killed by a Silver Bullet or had crazy dog teeth. And to our credit, Wolfmen may exist according to Yahoo answers. But to be safe, we are sorry.
*composed by Washington Correspondent Jack Wagner
To celebrate the late Senator and WFGHM today;
skip the numbers 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13 any time you count today just like Helms’ favorite musician.
and of course,
Just say no
Tomorrow we will continue to honor great White Fat Guys that have died since last April.
Trivia!
This man fathered the leading lady in Pink Panther 2 and the greatest fictional British defense lawyer.
(Answer on April 3rd{below})
For more on Senator Jesse Helms go to you local library and check out these books:
Here’s Where I Stand: A Memoir By Jesse Helms
Meet The Wolf Man by R. K. Renfield
Answer to the trivia is Thomas Mortimer
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