Except from you Tavis F. Smith, why not?

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Thanks. Actually, I have a lot more respect for an honest athiest than I do a dishonest right wing christian. My ‘brand’ is pacifist, non-violent, non-political, non-trinitarian, no hellfire, etc… which goes against the dominant hegemonic southern baptist culture here in Mississippi. Thankfully I am in a college town and there are a few people here not totally whacked out on rightwing republican religion. Haley Barbour, however, is gutting school programs, carrying water (or oil) for BP, decimating programs for the poor. Of course, he proudly says he is a 5-Point Calvanist, which I guess means that everything is predetermined and if you are poor, well that’s the way it has to be and quit complaining. He hides behind (a big) Confederate flag, or American Flag, but in reality is totally corporate and corrupt, through and through. I mean that in a nice way :^)

I agree with what Gandhi said that he liked Christ but not the Christianity attached to it. [A paraphrase of course.]

I am an Atheist but my mind isn’t closed to Humanity. What we all have in common in what is best for all of us is usually declaimed as “utopian” like an end to war and protection for all. Not really, but those whose utopia is war and pillaging and wealth for a few families and potentates is alive and damns the billions of us to their utopia even now. Lets switch for several thousands years can’t we?

COinMS: I was just tipping my hat to NIGHT-GAUNT and liked your post. I was talkin’ about me,not you.

      Your point that so much mindless “right-wing” propagandist hooey is attached to Christs message is important. NIGHT-GAUNT is correct. Say it like you see it—tell it like it is. All of us here struggle for the truth. Sometimes, together, we get a little wood on the ball.

berniem so many of our presidents have been from Dixie that sometimes I wonder if they have won back some of what they lost. Many NeoCons are Neo Confederates who saw good things in the CSA & even the IIIrd Reich, but in the N.American style of course.

berniem,

I know what you mean.  However, there is one thing we have to remember.  For the same reason we didn’t let the South secede, we have many good citizens down there that deserve to be protected from the hordes.

There is one border that we must secure if our nation is not to be overrun by maliciously stupid and intolerant hordes. The border in question is that encompassing the confederacy!

COinMS identifying something, or someone, truthfully shouldn’t be against your religion. Properly showing what they are doesn’t make you one of them or anything close to them since actions many times speak louder than words. Don’t they?

You aren’t promoting them are you? But condemning them for what they do isn’t that right? Then shouldn’t you want to point out evil, shine a bright light upon it of truth and right?

Mindlessness rarely exists except among the comatose* or drugged. (See the Zombie of Voodoo.)

*Recent use of f(N)MRI’s on such patients have shown them to have active minds.

Redhorse, no problem. Actually, since I try to live the Golden Rule, I should have phrased my criticism of Barbour differently. I almost hate to say I am a Christian, since Christians lately have twisted the simple words of Christ into something monstrous.

I am certainly on the left wing of Christianity, but because I am a committed Christian, I should not have referred to him as vicious and cunning and racist, even if it is true. I don’t want to descend to their level.

All I can say is that if Barbour and Palin or Barbour and Beck get into power, kiss what is left of our anemic democracy goodbye. Perhaps liberals should get their passports in order.

NIGHT-GAUNT/COinMS: Sorry. It IS a mistake to think thugs like Barbour are just “mindless apes”. Rage got the better of me. The sad fact is, Republithugs and their MSM lie machine, after wrecking our every attempt at progress, may have convinced America to cut off its’ political nose to spite its’ political face. I just hope, after the coming election, Dems are still in control of the House and Senate. (I know!!Spare us both.)

      Posters here lament an MSM that allows self-serving demagogues like Barbour to lie with impunity. Since our founding, the American Press has been for sale. Perhaps, we need to replace our self-righteous indignation (my “rant” below) with a sober look and revaluation of what NEWS is. (And, lets not forget, Eugene R. laid the facts on the table for us. That’s what Journalists do. We are not without resource.)

      As an adult it is an insult to be treated like a child. It causes rage. That’s what the MSM is about. They promise adult discussion and access to information vital to our lives, deliver nothing, and then sell us toothpaste. And we go back for more. Isn’t this classic passive/aggressive manipulation intended to leave one twisting in emotional space? Rage becomes permanent, distorts the ability to think clearly, and feeds a sense of hopeless depression. It’s crazy making. The line between reality, politics, entertainment and personality are so blurred and facts so distorted, it’s impossible to know what the truth is. That’s the point. And, if you try to confront the beast, like all psychopathic emotional predators, they paint you as having a “loose screw”.

    Many here openly express their feeling that American MSM is an organized controlled propagandist machine. The simple reality is, corporate ad money has always corrupted content. Now it has become openly sinister. The gloves are off. That’s good news for us!! And don’t forget, the prime motivation of these geniuses. To gain absolute control of your every motivation, so they can sell you toothpaste.

    Emotional kneejerk (guilty) disempowers us. The MSM strums our emotions like a banjo. In the same way an addict destroys a family by theft, high drama, emotional destruction and lies, likewise demagogues like Haley Barbour and the MSM. Until the family accepts the lying manipulative user is exactly that it cannot regain its’ mental/spiritual health.

    That’s what I mean when I say, that though still a dangerous power and money addicted entity, Washington has made itself irrelevant to American reality. The entire war lie, suspension of civil liberties, economic robbery, etc., all, are the acts of a mainline junky. They are unwilling to save themselves and our only choice is to either perish with them or draw the line. They are not, and do not represent,US.

    Let us unite. Reclaim our power as citizens and stop thinking we can save the morally bankrupt from themselves. We all see it, and we’re not alone.

Hailey Barbour is even more hideous than Newt Gingrich. The persistence, the ineradicality of certain vermin that live off the body politic is astounding.

Well, I live in Mississippi and can tell you that Haley Barbour is not stupid. He is vicious and cunning and racist but he is most definitely not stupid. He knows what he is saying is a crock, but he also knows he can get away with it because of the piss-poor excuse we have for a press in the U.S. The Mississippi press is almost exclusively right wing, and the people down here… oy. There are some gems, and some truly progressive folks, but for the most part the whites are slavish theocrats, worshiping the military and panting to destroy any social services that don’t benefit them directly. Because they are good christians, don’t you know?
The old joke from the sixties still stands: ‘what has four ‘eyes’ and can’t see’? MIssIssIppI.

I have to thank Eugene Robinson for his great service in writing this column.

I am old enough to remember what happened in that time period.  Robinson does us the favor of laying out the time line of these events against the time line of Barbour’s life.  Otherwise, even I might have fallen for one or two words in Barbour’s story.

Yes the Democrats and Republicans have both changed in the last 50 years.  The Democratic party became a place where this load of bull would no longer be accepted.  The southern people who still wanted to hang on to the old ways found that they had to become Republicans to find a place that would still accept this.

Revisionism is a bastion of fascism, communism, religious delusion and the overall perfidy of those who would rule without regard to reality or honor.  Unfortunately, the party of Lincoln (as they like to say) has been taken over by ignorance, anti-democracy racists and fools.  Also unfortunately, too few on the Democratic side have the balls to kick ass and take names, particularly the pres.  A year of mewling to pass a crappy health bill??? Where are the real leaders.  Bernie Sanders and Alan Grayson can’t do it alone!!!

DickBarbourRoveAiles:  looks and sounds like one unpleasant Humpty-Dumpty.

Maybe those with a better memory will vote him out next election.

Yes it is sad when we see examples of convenient memory syndrome. Where you only remember things they way it “should” have been. The way you want them to be. Now imagine an entire leadership who has that codified into text books and school curricula? If they should ever take over it would be so and within a generation they would have obliterated the past for their own myth.

The sad fact is Red Horse is that types like Barbour do have minds and they use them for vile and venal things. No, the mind numbed ones go to sports and spend most of their time, when their not working (or searching for work) eating, drinking beer and having sex with the missus. They don’t want the status quo to change and if their politician will give it to them then fine. They have little else to be interested in. Like the foreign places like Chicago and California.

I hope not really hopeless.
Think of the kids growing up into tomorrow.
Think of how you, we can work toward what is best for them—at the very least, not allow the worst to happen.  Yhey are full of life and possibilities. Act for the sake of the children.

Look at Barbour’s history!

He is a miscreant through and through.

He is a caricature of the ugly, white, male Southerner, devoid of thought, full of himself, full of bluster and rampant with bigotry

I wonder why Barbour would think he’d get a pass on such a load of crock. 
Those of us who lived through those times and participated in the CR
movement know the story and won’t tolerate revisions. Heck, my grandma, a
schoolteacher in TN, didn’t see integration in public schools until the 70s! 

Mississippi was a hardcase, which explains why Barbour is trying to soften up
its image.  It was the state in which 3 civil rights workers—Goodman,
Shwerner, Chaney—turned up dead in the river.  Where Viola Liuzzo was beat
for protesting; where poll taxes and literacy tests suppressed the black vote.

My family would drive south from Chicago to Alabama every summer to visit
grandparents.  The rule was not to stop in Mississippi—gas up right before you
come to the state and drive on through.  Once, however, we had to stop.  My
father asked to use the restroom.  He was told to get a pop bottle and go out
back.  He declined.  Most black people knew that using bathrooms or eating in
restaurants during the drive south was out of the question.  We’d cook tons of
fried chicken for the trip and carry a roll of toilet paper for peeing and pooping
on the side of the road.

Barbour only brings attention to the truth by such an obvious lie.

Barbour makes my skin crawl. Another mindless inhabitant of Lie Lie Land. Visonless, dangerous and blind to reality. Another willing “for sale”-“lets make a deal Wall Street”-“I want to be richer” Republithug baboon.

      The MSM has already declared the dream that brought President O. to power dead. And, so many who know better, are willing to roll over and let it happen.
   
      From HOPE to HOPELESS in two short years.

Mr. Robinson is also guilty of revisionism in his attack of the Republican party. He
should realize that both major parties have substantially changed in the last 50 to
100 years.

Vitriol and hatred are enemies of truth.

“Leghorn Foghorn” Barbour. Cock-a-doo-da-dooing and strutting about the barnyard as if he had a brain. No, he is not smart. He’s lucky. So far.

THE DUMBING DOWN OF A NATION

Each nation has its lot of dumb people.

Why is it that they want to become politicians? Is it that they are not fit for any other work that requires astuteness, competence and intelligence? Methinks yes.

And if they’ve got a bit of smarts and thus become rich; then more than ever they feel as if they were destined for the Senate. (Where 40% are actually millionaires.)

So, they spend oodles of money in their campaigns, show how “regular” they are surrounded by the handsome spouse and 3.2 children—and we figure they’re the “right stuff”?

It’s like selling soap powder on TV.

A politician lying.  No surprise.
A Republican lying by re-writing history. No surprise.
A White, Southern Republican lying by re-writing the history of segregation and racism. No surprise.

A public that buys this bullshit that can easily and clearly be shown to be a lie. Sadly, no surprise.

Before there was Karl Rove, there was Haley Barbour, engineering the GOP’s return to power long before anyone ever heard of Karl Rove.  The whole pattern of GOP lying and re-writing history stems from Barbour’s tenure as RNC Chairman.

In the aftermath of Katrina that destroyed the reputations of the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans, somehow, the right-wing propaganda machine spear-headed by Fox Noise, gave Mississippi and its governor a “pass” despite conditions identical to those in Louisiana.  Everything they claimed about Louisiana was just as true (or false) about Mississippi, but nary a bad word was voiced about Gov. Barbour. 

Southern White Republicans re-writing history, especially about race relations.  No surprise.

Now, Haley Barbour is not stupid. Why is he telling this ridiculous story?

Who says he’s not stupid?  He’s cunning, a vicious little dynamo of putrid political ambition with a cheerleader’s haircut a la Trent Lott.  Rhett Butler wearing the white sheet under his expensive suit. “Oh, he’s such a gentleman.  Ah just love Haley, really ah do.”