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Gov. Haley Barbour Praises White Supremacist Group
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 The Weekly Standard, things weren’t so bad in his hometown of Yazoo City, which took until 1970 to integrate its schools (though the final event itself is said to have gon...

How Haley Barbour Can Win
Andrew Ferguson's profile of Haley Barbour is attracting a lot of attention because Barbour's praise of the White Citizen's Councils of his native Yazoo, Mississippi, accepted by Ferguson at face value, turns out to behistorically inaccurate. Aside from the significant flaw of glossing over Barbour's praise for a white supremacist organization,

Today's 2 Minutes Of Liberal Hate: Haley Barbour Loves Racists Or Something
The Weekly Standard has a lengthy and positive profile of Mississippi Governor and possible GOP Presidential Candidate Haley Barbour. It seems some on the left, led by Matt Yglesias and followed by the usual suspects at TPM, The Atlantic and Politico, Time and MSNBC, are outrageously outraged by this passage dealing with Barbour's recollection of his hometown's integration efforts. Both Mr. Mott and Mr. Kelly had told me that Yazoo City was perhaps the only municipality in Mississippi that man...

Quote of the Day
"You're trying to paint the Governor as a Racist. And nothing could be further from the truth."—Dan Turner, spokesperson for Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Acist), who recently waxed nostalgic for the Citizens' Councils which were "the respectable face of white supremacist political Activism" preceding and during the Civil Rights Era, which Barbour recalls as a time that wasn't "that bad." So nothing is further from the truth than "Haley Barbour is a racist"? Cool! Let's think of some things that a...

The Real Purpose of the Repeal Amendment
Originally proposed by a Georgetown Law Professor in 2009, the “Repeal Amendment” is getting a lot of press now.  Some have reacted to the idea as a right-wing plot to try to return us to the age of Slavery, but that is a severe misreading of what the Repeal Amendment idea is all about — restraining runaway Federal Government power. Both fed and reflected by a series of Supreme Court decisions over the last two decades, federalism — the idea that federal power is checke...

Michele Bachmann to run for senate?
Posted by Jennifer Caballero on Dec 20 2010 Filed under News & Opinion, Politics. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry Rep. Michele Bachmann Representative Michele Bachmann is one of the most popular Conservatives in the country and a Tea Party darling. She stunned those in the media with the millions she raised. Now the Minnesota GOP chairman would like to see Bachmann run for US Senate. Will it happen? ...

Michele Bachmann to run for senate?
- Jennifer of Cubachi Representative Michele Bachmann is one of the most popular Conservatives in the country and a Tea Party darling. She stunned those in the media with the millions she raised. Now the Minnesota GOP chairman would like to see Bachmann run for US Senate. Will it happen? ...

An Awfully Loud Dog Whistle
by Patrick Appel 2012 Republican hopeful Haley Barbour is rightly being pummeled for his praise of 1950s and 1960s era segregationist Citizens Councils. Weigel suggests the comments were politically calculated: Barbour is not dumb. If he's being a revisionist about race in Mississippi, he's not alone, and he's fighting back against a media standard that all Conservatives hate -- this idea that Southerners and Conservatives can never stop atoning for Jim Crow...

Haley Barbour accused of praising 'racist organisation'
Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi and a potential Republican Presidential Candidate in 2012, has been accused of praising a Racist organisation....

Schumer: Conservatives Want to Take America 'Back to the 19th Century'
Get alerts when there is a new article that might interest you. Chuck Schumer, not content with the liberal trope that Conservatives want to 'turn the clock back' to the 1950s, says that some "hard right people" in America "seem to be wanting to move us back to the 19th century." On “Good Morning America” Monday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Sen. Charles Schumer how well he thought Barack Obama is working with Congress and what advice he’d give the president. Schumer advis...

CHANGE: American Majority wants to infuse new Tea Party blood in system. While other Tea Party-af
CHANGE: American Majority wants to infuse new Tea Party blood in system. “While other Tea Party-affiliated groups have zeroed in on specifically helping Candidates win seats inside the U.S. Capitol, Drew and Ned Ryun are more focused on developing a farm team at the local and state level who one day could run for Congress.” ...

Anti-Obamacare = Pro-Slavery?
Scaling new heights of moonbattery , Huffington Post columnist Manisha Sinha posits that arguments against ObamaCare and other Federal intrusions on states’ rights have their roots in the pro-slavery movement, ca. 1840-60: Long before Tea Party Activists and other sundry Conservatives detected the ghost of socialism in Health Care reform and Financial Regulation Legislation, proslavery theorists argued that abolition was akin to socialism . Even though the Lincoln administration would pr...

Gov. Barbour On Segregated South: It Wasn't "That Bad"
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) loves to rewrite the history of segregation in the South when talking to Journalists. In a lengthy new Weekly Standard profile, though, Barbour really outdid himself: In interviews Barbour doesn't have much to say about growing up in the midst of the Civil Rights revolution. "I just don't remember it as being that bad," he said. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of people, black and white." D...

Barbour's Comments Focus Attention on Race
In a new interview, Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi recalls the 1960s-era Civil Rights struggle in his hometown of Yazoo City, saying, “I just don’t remember it as being that bad.” In the profile in the Weekly Standard, Mr. Barbour also talks about the Citizens Councils of the late 1960s, which some historians have said were organized to oppose racial integration. Mr. Barbour said that in his town, they were a positive force, praising them as “an organization of town leaders&#

Making good history
There was premature talk of a post-racial nirvana after the election of President Barack Obama. But the election was nonetheless a singularly significant event in a continuum of significant events that began with "All men are created equal" on to the Emancipation Proclamation, through the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s to present day. When Obama signs a bill repealing the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" rule, it will be an event as significant for Gay Rights as Pres...

Haley Barbour: I Am Not A Racist; Peter King: Im Willing To Be Called A Bigot
Mississippi Governor and possible Presidential Candidate Haley Barbour praised the anti-integration Citizens Councils of his hometown in a profile in the conservative Weekly Standard. “You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you’d lose it. If you had

Barbour spokesman: He's not a racist!
This is just the kind of defense that will have other 2012 Republican hopefuls rubbing their hands in Glee, from TPM's Eric Kleefeld. I just spoke with Dan Turner, the official spokesman for Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), who responded in strong terms to criticism of Barbour's recent praise for the segregationist Citizens Council groups of the Civil Rights era. "You're trying to paint the Governor as a Racist," he said. "And nothing could be further from the truth." .... So, I asked Turner, does B...

Just Some Good Ole Boys
It's wrong to see Racist revisionist history as ignorance or faulty memory. Barbour's obviously counting on the idea that the South Will Rise Again to support his presidential plans. And as is usually the case with straight up old school Racism dressed up as affection for the past, the media will largely ignore. ...

Welcome to the psychopathic state where conscience is 'persona non grata': Death to Jewish women who date Arabs
© Ofer Amram 'We will not allow it.' Bat Yam rally 200 people demonstrate in city center against 'Arabs who are taking our daughters'; leftists wave signs reading 'Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies'. Some 200 people held a demonstration in central Bat Yam Monday evening against relationships between local Jewish Women and Arab men. One of the protestors called out, "Any Jewish woman who goes with an Arab should be killed; any Jew who sells his home to an Arab should be killed." Durin...

Where Does Hate Come From?
Daniel Little has a question: Hate as a social demographic : Every Democracy I can think of has a meaningful (though usually small) proportion of citizens who fall on the extreme right by any standard: Racist, White supremacist, hateful, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, nativist, nationalist, or violently anti-government individuals and groups. In the United States we have many, many organizations that are basically racist and potentially violent hate groups. They provide a basis for...

Israeli group snivels Arab men are taking our daughters
Some 200 people held a demonstration in central Bat Yam Monday evening against relationships between local Jewish Women and Arab men. One of the protestors called out, “Any Jewish woman who goes with an Arab should be killed; any Jew who sells his home to an Arab should be killed.” During the rally, held under the banner, “We Want a Jewish Bat-Yam”, demonstrators also insulted the prophet Muhammad and made Racist remarks against Arabs and their saints. Police forces mai...

No To Duban III
Take Action As a supporter of the true principles of Human Rights and equality, I urge the 27 Member States of the European Union to vote No on the U.N.’s plan for a “Durban 3” gathering next year in New York. The draft resolution calls for a summit of world leaders on September 21, 2011, “to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of the Durban Declaration.” The event would be jam-packed with “an opening plenary,” “consecutive round tables,”

Brooklyn-Jenin: Why didnt the judges prevent the demolition in Lod?
As fifty Children lose their homes under the auspices of the Supreme Court the question should be asked: Does the Supreme Court act in the service of a Racist ideology in the spirit of Rabbi Eliyahu and his cohorts? One morning, when the storm started shaking the treetops and the dogs howled in terror because of the thunders and the flashes of lightning, fifty Children of different ages went out to school in the city of Lod, Israel. During the day most of them worked diligently on their studie...

The Good King of White Supremacy.
Matt Yglesias rounds up the problems with and the responses to Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's comments on the Citizens Council in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi. Citizens Councils were more moderate white supremacist organizations than the KKK, and used economic and social pressures rather than violence to dominate and suppress blacks. Barbour's statements were evidence, again, of misunderstandings, especially among white Southerners, of what it means to be Racist. "Promoting" white ...

Traumatized by Ham
A secondary-school pupil in Spain was so upset by the mention of ham in his geography class that his family filed a complaint with the National Police about the teacher’s “Racism and xenophobia”. Guess what religion these folks practice? Many thanks to Marian at La Yijad en Eurabia for the translations, and to Vlad Tepes for subtitling the news video. First, from Diario de Cádiz: A teacher at the Institute Menéndez Tolosa in the city of La Línea de la Concepcion ...