Netroots Celebrate Helms's Death With Vulgar Attacks

NewsBusters readers are likely aware of my frequent appeal for civility in our comments sections due to my unwavering belief that despite political differences, when the sun sets, we're all Americans.

Such reverence should be crucial on the day someone that has tirelessly served this nation for thirty years passes away.

Apparently devoid of such human decency, the folks in the Netroots, within minutes of Friday's announcement concerning the death of Jesse Helms, began publishing virulent and vulgar epithets directed at the former senator, with some actually voicing a desire to dance on his grave.

Here are but a few examples, beginning with some truly disgusting diaries posted at Daily Kos (readers are warned that the following contains possibly offensive graphic and vulgar content, h/t LGF):

Jesse Helms, you rat bastard, burn in hell:

Please dear God, let there really be a hell. Because if there really IS a hell then Jesse Helms is already consumed by it's lowest depths. He's wailing for eternity with his blood brothers; Adolf, Mao, Stalin and the rest of the worst of the subset of human beings who have crossed from mere mortal to eternal evil. Satanic. Jesse joins his kin, Strom Thurmond, Bull Connor and a host of other vicious racist f***ks who have taken it upon themselves to very nearly ruin the core principle that this country was founded upon: equality.

Please Excuse Me While I Dance Upon His Grave:

Jesse Helms is dead...The man lived far too long and did far too much damage...If my atheistic prayers are answered, Jesse Helms won't be spending eternity where he expected to spend it.

Jesse Helms Dead - How to Memorialize His Legacy:

Jesse passed into nothingness this morning. I plan to memorialism [sic] his death by drinking beer, smoking ribs, making potato salad and settling in for an afternoon of brainless TV watching after doing a couple of chores.

A few chuckles and chortles during that period might be coming, but that's about it.