TagsTagsRachel Maddow reveals the connections between Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and the racist Council of Conservative Citizens, with photographs: Video
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From the "Saw This Coming" department: Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is desperately trying to walk back his statements defending the segregationist White Citizens' Councils: Barbour clarifies: Citizens councils 'indefensible'. When asked why my hometown in Mississippi did not suffer the same racial violence when I was a young man that ...
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TPM writer Eric Kleefeld spoke with Gov. Haley Barbour's official spokesman, Dan Turner, about Barbour's statements in the Weekly Standard praising the segregationist "Citizens' Councils." To recap, here's the quote from the interview: “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK,” said Barbour. ...
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The meltdown of the Republican Party into a stinky puddle of racist goo is accelerating. In an interview with the Weekly Standard, Governor Haley Barbour (R-MS) actually praised the civil rights era white supremacist group known as the "White Citizens' Council." As Barbour recalls it in a new profile in ...
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James Edwards, host of the repellent white supremacist radio show called “The Political Cesspool,” is irritated at all this denial coming from Tea Partiers. He says they should stop being such wusses and embrace their inner racists. Of course the Tea Party is racist, crowed a blog post on the ...
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This week in Wausau, Wisconsin, organizers of a tea party rally had to cancel the appearance of a speaker from Alabama when it came to light that he had a history of speaking at white supremacist events. Attorney John Eidsmoe agreed to withdraw after another tea party speaker complained. Eidsmoe has ...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog has a shout-out to LGF in their 3rd Annual Smackdown Awards, in the section about Ann Coulter’s utterly appalling defense of the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens. 8. Most Intrepid Researcher Award This category had a crowded field of contenders — especially among ...
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