Oops: Fox Nation Said Barbour Easily 'Fends Off Left-Wing Racial Smears'

[RandySF]

As you can see, the headline reads: "Haley Barbour Fends off Left-Wing Racial Smears with Ease," with an unrelated photo of Barbour smiling and laughing at some public event.

Interestingly, the post in no way documents anything Barbour might have been actually doing in order to fend off criticism. Indeed, it looks like Team Barbour's only response on Monday was a less than successful interview between myself and Barbour's gubernatorial spokesman. Instead, it only reads:

Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, is increasingly mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012.

The Weekly Standard profiles him this week, and liberal bloggers are spotlighting one section where Barbour discusses segregation and racism in Mississippi in his childhood days. You can sense where this is going, right?


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[BrklynLiberal]

1. Barbour is the typical pasty-white, fat-assed, arrogant moran the RWingnuts & tbaggers worship

Another one in the mold of Gingrich, Buchanan, and that ilk.

They should all actually be balloons in the Thanksgiving Day parade..or monsters in "Ghostbusters"

[pacalo]

3. Let the ignorant worship him. If he's put up against Obama in 2012, let's just see

what the numbers will be for each. It won't even be close. There will be a firestorm of support for Obama.

[pacalo]

2. I watched "Missisippi Burning" last night...

A group of KKKers were having what they described to an FBI agent (Gene Hackman) as a "social meeting" between "business men". Ring any bells?

The best line in the movie was spoken by Gene Hackman's character, & it describes those Republicans today who vote against their own interests, kind of like cutting off one's own nose to spite his face:

"My old man was just so full of hate that he didn't know that bein' poor was what was killin' him."

[robertpaulsen]

4. Just like it said on The Simpsons!

[gratuitous]

5. But Haley's getting the treatment from the conservawhacko bloggers, too

A little tougher to shrug off the attacks from your own putative allies. Is racism losing its cachet as a brand, or is it just the overt stuff that doesn't sell anymore?

[Elmore Furth]

6. This guy is an asshole K&R

[fascisthunter]

7. thankfully, Barbour is in the minority

most whites I know are tired of their shit. I know I am... fucking losers who need to believe they are superior.