Defeat From the Jaws of Victory

[Modbert]

ok, now what did he say, without the Left-wing preamble?

He tried to say a racist group wasn't racist and that racial tensions weren't that bad when in reality they were. He tried to downplay and whitewash history. There isn't a left-wing preamble. You can read for yourself exactly what he said about the group and what the group feels.

 

[elvis]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

 

[Revere]

The repeal of Obamacare is being called racist. Who cares what the race baiters say about Haley Barbour?

 

[Modbert]

He gives credit to a racist group that wasn't as open as Haley is making them out to be. On top of that, Haley couldn't of possibly listened to Dr. King in 1962 since Dr. King didn't go to Yazoo City in '62, rather he did in '66 when Haley would be 16.

 

[elvis]

lol.... Salon.com...

Because y'know, there isn't a hundred different links on the internet about this. I was going to choose Politico but I couldn't find a good article about his comments from there.

why not just list his comments, instead of an article with pre-conceived notions of what he meant?

 

[Modbert]

why not just list his comments, instead of an article with pre-conceived notions of what he meant?

Giving context as to why he was being criticized. Even if I just linked salon, I'm sure House would have said something. Point being, he said something he shouldn't of said and even he later went back on his prior comments. It's going to hurt him in 2012 if he wants to run because I'm sure one of the GOP candidates will make it an issue.

 

[Dr.House]

lol.... Salon.com...

Because y'know, there isn't a hundred different links on the internet about this. I was going to choose Politico but I couldn't find a good article about his comments from there.

I actually expected huffingtonpost or the daily show, so....


lol

 

[Dr.House]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

I probably would have payed attention to the girls too...

 

[elvis]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

I probably would have payed attention to the girls too...

You racist.

 

[elvis]

He gives credit to a racist group that wasn't as open as Haley is making them out to be. On top of that, Haley couldn't of possibly listened to Dr. King in 1962 since Dr. King didn't go to Yazoo City in '62, rather he did in '66 when Haley would be 16.

He gave the wrong date. what a bigot.

 

[DiveCon]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

I probably would have payed attention to the girls too...

hell, this was back in the early 60's
we are talking nearly 50 years ago
its very possible he just doesnt remember it all

 

[Dr.House]

why not just list his comments, instead of an article with pre-conceived notions of what he meant?

Giving context as to why he was being criticized. Even if I just linked salon, I'm sure House would of said something. Point being, he said something he shouldn't of said and even he later went back on his prior comments. It's going to hurt him in 2012 if he wants to run because I'm sure one of the GOP candidates will make it an issue.

WOULD HAVE

WOULD HAVE


Dammit boy, you're gonna learn you some proper English on this here message board!

 

[DiveCon]

He gives credit to a racist group that wasn't as open as Haley is making them out to be. On top of that, Haley couldn't of possibly listened to Dr. King in 1962 since Dr. King didn't go to Yazoo City in '62, rather he did in '66 when Haley would be 16.

He gave the wrong date. what a bigot.

yeah, string em up, the racist

 

[Dr.House]

He gives credit to a racist group that wasn't as open as Haley is making them out to be. On top of that, Haley couldn't of possibly listened to Dr. King in 1962 since Dr. King didn't go to Yazoo City in '62, rather he did in '66 when Haley would be 16.

He gave the wrong date. what a bigot.

Apparently that dooms him in 2012...

 

[DiveCon]

why not just list his comments, instead of an article with pre-conceived notions of what he meant?

Giving context as to why he was being criticized. Even if I just linked salon, I'm sure House would of said something. Point being, he said something he shouldn't of said and even he later went back on his prior comments. It's going to hurt him in 2012 if he wants to run because I'm sure one of the GOP candidates will make it an issue.

WOULD HAVE

WOULD HAVE


Dammit boy, you're gonna learn you some proper English on this here message board!

 

[elvis]

why not just list his comments, instead of an article with pre-conceived notions of what he meant?

Giving context as to why he was being criticized. Even if I just linked salon, I'm sure House would of said something. Point being, he said something he shouldn't of said and even he later went back on his prior comments. It's going to hurt him in 2012 if he wants to run because I'm sure one of the GOP candidates will make it an issue.

WOULD HAVE

WOULD HAVE


Dammit boy, you're gonna learn you some proper English on this here message board!

there you go with your racist terms.

 

[8537]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

I probably would have payed attention to the girls too...

Ha! I thought the same thing. When I was 16, if I attended any sort of political event it was to check out the girls. Hell, I seem to recall standing on the edges of a Reagan rally in 1984....and suffice to say I was not a Reagan supporter.

 

[Dr.House]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

I probably would have payed attention to the girls too...

You racist.

I'm a quarter racist, a quarter Italian and a half Irish....

God Bless this melting pot!

 

[Modbert]

He gives credit to a racist group that wasn't as open as Haley is making them out to be. On top of that, Haley couldn't of possibly listened to Dr. King in 1962 since Dr. King didn't go to Yazoo City in '62, rather he did in '66 when Haley would be 16.

He gave the wrong date. what a bigot.

yeah, string em up, the racist

We all know that isn't the point that was being made. I was just pointing out that his story that he gave was inaccurate. Point being, even he backed off from his original comments because he knew they were wrong. Do you think he was right in what he said? Yes or no?

 

[Dr.House]

here's what he said:

"I just don't remember it as being that bad," Barbour, who was in high school at the time, tells Ferguson. "I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in '62. He spoke out at the old fairgrounds and it was full of people, black and white."

Barbour, who was a teenager at the time, says he attended the rally because he wanted to hear what King had to say but ended up spending most of the time talking to his friends. "The truth is, we couldn't hear very well. We were sort of out there on the periphery. We just sat on our cars, watching the girls, talking, doing what boys do," Barbour tells Ferguson. "We paid more attention to the girls than to King."

Asked why Yazoo City was more peaceful than other parts of the South, Barbour offers credit to the Citizens Council, a controversial group that has been likened by its critics to the Ku Klux Klan. But Barbour says this critique is unfair and that the group actually cracked down on the KKK.

"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," Barbour says. "If you had a job, you'd lose it. If you had a store, they'd see nobody shopped there. We didn't have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City."
Barbour doesn’t recall civil rights era being ‘that bad’ - Yahoo! News

I probably would have payed attention to the girls too...

Ha! I thought the same thing. When I was 16, if I attended any sort of political event it was to check out the girls. Hell, I seem to recall standing on the edges of a Reagan rally in 1984....and suffice to say I was not a Reagan supporter.

Reagan supporters were hawt.....