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Gov. Haley Barbour Realizes He Made a Big Mistake

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Charles12/21/2010 1:43:41 pm PST

re: #27 robdouth

Otherwise, this just becomes another gotcha website that serves no real purpose other than to smear and humiliate those political figures that are disliked.

Give me a break.

If Barbour had said something like, “Back in those days we had the Citizens’ Councils, and they were up to some pretty bad things, but I didn’t really see a lot of trouble myself,” I would be applauding him.

Instead, he said, “Why, the Citizens’ Councils were made up of civic leaders, who drove out the Klan! Don’t believe those sissy Northerners.”

Gov. Barbour has only himself to blame for this mess, and it’s not “smearing” to report it when a major GOP politician openly praises one of the most overtly racist organizations of the Jim Crow era.