TagsTagsThis is shaping up to be the most reactionary far right Republican Party presidential campaign in history. We've got serial philanderer and newly-minted religious right mouthpiece Newt Gingrich, creationist anti-gay panderer to hate groups Tim Pawlenty, Herman "All Muslims want to kill us" Cain, Haley "The KKK wasn't so bad" ...
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As we noted Monday, the NAACP has called for Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to denounce an outrageous proposal to commemorate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, with a state license plate. Yesterday Barbour refused to say anything negative about a license plate dedicated to ...
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Since the election of Barack Obama, the neo-Confederate crowd has been more active than ever, pushing hard to promote a revisionist version of US history that sweeps slavery under the rug and lionizes Southern slavemasters. But the latest initiative from these throwbacks is almost unbelievable: the Sons of Confederate Veterans ...
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Rachel 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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