Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

Lawyer, Candidate, Atheist, Holocaust Denier

It's not often one candidate brings those four traits to a campaign. Lawyer/candidate/atheist maybe ... but throw in equal parts Holocaust denial, "white power," and drug legalization, and you have a moron worthy of Southern politics:

A Democratic candidate for attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

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Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."

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"It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long," Darby said in the interview.

A poll published last month indicated the Democratic race for attorney general was up for grabs. The survey showed 21 percent favored Tyson to 12 percent for Darby, but 68 percent of respondents were undecided.

Darby, founder of the Atheist Law Center and a longtime supporter of separation of church and state, said he has no money for campaign advertising and has made only a few campaign speeches.

Well, no campaign advertising until now ...

I've known John Tyson Jr. since he was on the Alabama State Board of Education. I have my differences with him -- particularly his close association with the teachers' union -- but he is an competent (although sometimes accused of being slow) prosecutor in one of the busiest circuits in the state.

While it is too earlier for endorsements -- those will come at the end of the month -- it's safe to say that Tyson would have to be indicted (like one of the Democratic candidates for governor) to not receive the coveted BaT Seal of Non-Disapproval!

6 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 5:00 PM
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6 Comments:

Do you have an address for an RSS feed? I can't find one, and Rojo.com isn't finding one.

By Anonymous, at 6:08 AM

Good Heavens!! This is why people think southerners are stupid and give the rest of us a bad name!!

By beachgirl, at 8:36 AM

Steve, I don't. But if you'd like to help me set that up, I would be glad to do it.

Beachgirl, and he's an attorney and atheist. I don't think I've ever heard of a Klucker against Christ. Usually they quote Genesis 9:27, not deny God's existence.

By Jake McCafferty, at 6:07 PM

I'm the wrong man for the job, as I don't know enough about them. I was thinking it may be something as simple as adjusting something in the preferences for blogger/blogspot. Maybe not.

By Anonymous, at 10:28 AM

Will this do it?

http://help.blogger.com/bin/topic.py?topic=36

By Anonymous, at 10:35 AM

I'll have to look into that Steve and see. Thanks for the tip.

By Jake McCafferty, at 8:38 PM