Byrd
From YTMND
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| Original YTMND: Byrd on Dogfighting |
| by Lemonei |
| July 20, 2007 |
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The Byrd fad, also known as the Barbaric fad, is based on a speech by late Senator and former KKK member Robert Byrd on dog fighting, given in Congress after NFL star Michael Vick was indicted as part of a dogfighting operation. During Byrd's speech, he repeated the word "barbaric", to describe the act of "training these poor creatures to turn themselves into fighting machines." The fad started with a site created by Lemonei, which had a picture of Senator Byrd, audio from a section of his speech, and the text: "let that word resound."
