"Just doin' mah job, suh..."

Dan Savage has a remembrance of Jesse Helms that invokes the spirit of The Guardian's send-off of both Helms and William Randolph Hearst ("it is hard even now to think of him with charity"):

When he made an appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live in Sept. 1995, a caller praised him “for everything you’ve done to help keep down the niggers.”

Helms looked in the camera and replied, “Well thank you, I think.”