Rachel Maddow & Eugene Robinson destroy Haley Barbour's bizarre 'memories' of race & the south

[ProfessorPlum]

Run time: 00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM4PyfI2rtI   Posted on YouTube: September 03, 2010 By YouTube Member: StartLoving3 Views on YouTube: 70   Posted on DU: September 03, 2010 By DU Member: ProfessorPlum Views on DU: 1748

 
HB claims that his generation was over segregation and that the (modern) GOP was at the forefront of racial healing in the South.

Rachel fact-checks his ass, then Eugene Robinson (uncharacteristically perturbed) destroys his lying ass.

Basically, a bad few minutes for Haley Barbour's lying, pasty white ass.

[NewJeffCT]

1. Can you summarize some points

or link to a transcript?

I can't watch video at work

Thanks

[ProfessorPlum]

2. transcripts not posted yet for this

I did include a short summary under the video.

I suggest other forums than the political videos forum while you are at work. Sorry I can't help you more.

[Exultant Democracy]

3. lolz

[CTyankee]

5. Basically, Rachel refuted Barbour's assertions about the South of his generation.

She set the timeline and did the history. Robinson came on and did the same thing.

Haley is doing the old "revisionism." We heard this from Scarborough on MJ last week. It's the new talking point: "Republicans led the civil rights movement in the South."

A new low for the GOP.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Thanks - and, they always cite

the fact that a few Dixiecrats/Democrats were opposed to civil rights.

[BolivarianHero]

11. And guess what else...

By the 70s most of the Dixiecrat who weren't dead (sadly we're still waiting on all of them) or out of office had left the Democratic Party to sit as Republicans.

A story from Texas illustrates just how twisted people like Haley Barbour and Trent Lott are in their "interpretations" of history.

In 1962, Poppy Bush (who was a kinder and gentler Republican, just like the compassionate conservative assterix :sarcasm:), shortly after having carpetbagged his way over to Dixie from the great state of Massachusetts to drill for oil, ran for Senate against a left-wing populist by the name of Ralph Yarborough (D-TX). Yarborough was from the liberal wing of the Texas Democratic Party (which later come to be associated with names we all know, particularly Jim Hightower and Ann Richards) and faced opposition from the various Dixiecrat factions. After winning a tough primary battle, Yarborough faced off against Bush in an election that saw Bush campaign against civil rights for African-Americans and the Democratic share of the vote fall from 74% to 56% as Dixiecrats rallied around the elitist from Massachusetts because they wanted to keep the Black man down.

What does this prove? That the Dixiecrats voluntarily whored themselves out to the national Republican Party and took over the apparatuses of their anemic respective state parties whenever sane people gained control of the Democratic parties (Sadly, that doesn't seemed to have completely happened in Alabama yet, but progress takes time.).

[Crowman1979]

4. Rethuglicans seem to forget that Google and Wikipedia exist.

Like they think everyone will take their word for it, and the series of tubes would be too clogged up for people to find out their lying.

[NewJeffCT]

7. That's what they rely on

I mean, Fox News, Rush, Savage, etc could easily be debunked with a few minutes of using The Google, but their audiences just lap up the bullshit they're being fed.

[DallasNE]

8. It Was In Barbour's Home State Of Mississippi

That had a high school recently announce that only white candidates could run for class president and that only black candidates could run for class reporter. How is that racial healing rather than segregation?

[Roy Rolling]

9. Republican Governor

There should be a disclaimer on Barbour's forehead: This mouth for hire, but you have to pay me more than the $1 million paid by Fox News to Republican Governors.

[activa8tr]

14. That's right! I forget he's getting his support from Fox's News Corp.

Slime all around these people.

[soupkitchen]

10. White Washing History

[activa8tr]

13. I like that expression. n/t

[davidhilton]

12. I hate to say this, but, Rachel is just preaching to the choir again.

Haley Barbour is most likely very representative of many southerners, that is why he holds such high office. Check Dave Chapelle's take on racism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU28Pv26nNQ

[CTyankee]

15. Well, SOMEBODY has got to do it!

And she's on MSNBC so she gets air time. That's important.

[Enrique]

16. "didn't think twice about it"

I believe Haley on that one.

Awesome work by Rachel. How in the world she stumbled on this interview with the horrid Human Events, but I'm glad she did. :thumbsup:

[SILVER__FOX52]

17. That is the only way they can win is to lie. PERIOD.........

And they lie, alot.

[GreenTea]

18. Haley Barbou has always been a lying republican racist pile of pig shit - and truly

my description of Haley Barbou is very kind and generous, when one really knows who Haley Barbou is - that the fact is this lying racist corporate republican elitist and pile of pig shit only begins to describe who Haley Barbou is and his sickening filthy life and career!!

[MikeMc]

19. Every time I see Haley speaking

I flash back to the oily mayor in the late '70's sitcom Carter Country. Same for Falwell and Gingrich.

Barbour's party took the most virulent racist Dixiecrats like Thurmond and Helms in, but nevermind.

On the other hand, Haley's portrayal of identical twin sisters separated at birth in Disney's 'Parent Trap' was boffo.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, ProfessorPlum.