TDPS: Haley Barbour won't denounce KKK "or anyone," but Fox News plays apologist for him TRANSCRIPT

[celtics23]

Run time: 03:36 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoGa8iEwODQ   Posted on YouTube: February 22, 2011 By YouTube Member: MidweekPolitics Views on YouTube: 539   Posted on DU: February 24, 2011 By DU Member: celtics23 Views on DU: 655

 
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David: Here's a strange story. In completely unsurprising racism, based on what we've come to expect from Haley Barbour, Haley Barbour, Mississippi Governor, is refusing to denounce Mississippi license plates which commemorate a KKK leader. And what better way to, I don't know, raise money for something through special license plates than putting a KKK leader on there? I mean, it just sounds wonderful, Louis.

Louis: So bad. That is so bad.

David: And so recently, he said he was proud of being a lobbyist, and earlier he's been exposed as a lover of the old White Citizens' Council, right, which made him go into basically full damage-control mode. The latest racially charged incident is where he said that he would not condemn a proposal honoring a KKK leader and Confederate general on a state license plate.

And Fox News obviously made very sure... Fox News is very concerned anytime a Republican gets into trouble in repeatedly airing their explanation and their, not apology, but just their clarification. And Fox News did exactly that. Let's take a look at it and see-- I can't even understand the explanation. I really just can't. Let's see what exactly it was.

Brett Baier: Mississippi Governor and prospective Republican presidential candidate Haley Barbour has clarified remarks in a "Weekly Standard" profile that had brought accusations of racism. He said in that piece that the reason his hometown of Yazoo City was able to integrate its schools without violence was the town's Citizen Council. Barbour said the group kept out the Ku Klux Klan; Citizens' Councils have been called the "uptown Klan". Today, Barbour said, quote, "My point was my town rejected the Ku Klux Klan, but nobody should construe that to mean I think the town leadership were saints either."

David: I don't even get it.

Baier: "Their vehicle, called the Citizens' Council, is totally indifensible, as is segregation."

David: All right, that's the explanation. And I don't even understand the explanation, but what I do know is that his quote, separate from what he did or did not mean about segregation, is, "I don't go around denouncing people. That's not going to happen."

Louis: No matter who they are, I guess.

David: Exactly. Is that the new thing, Louis? Denouncing people is evil? If you denounce someone, you are clearly a part of the liberal media.

Louis: Right.

David: Haley Barbour will not denounce murderers, he will not denounce criminals, he won't denounce rapists, because he doesn't just go around denouncing people. Denouncing is bad...

Louis: Interesting. I wonder if he would denounce Osama bin Laden.

David: I don't know.

Louis: Probably not.

David: He doesn't go around denouncing people. Maybe he does it without going around. Maybe he does it in a stationary place.

Louis: In the privacy of his own home.

David: Denouncing is bad because obviously, Louis, it was brought on by Barack Obama being a Kenyan Native American Muslim anarchist Communist.

Louis: Socialist.

David: Socialist. That's right. All those things are the reason behind why denouncing has become a tool of the liberal media.

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[donthebun]

1. The first line is key

Completely unsurprising

[genna]

2. I just wish they'd stop normalizing racist, barbaric behavior as understandable

Haley Barbour tried to clean it up for Meet the Press a couple of weeks ago. It is and was hard to watch.

When we call them on their behavior, they label us something and haze the issue.

It is tiresome.