Governor Barbour and the WCC

Haley Barbour, in his second term as governor of Mississippi, has apparently made some regrettable and factually inaccurate remarks concerning the nature and purpose of White Citizens Councils in the south during the '60s. Ned recalls the era with some fondness, mainly because he was shielded from the real world. His schools contained no black children. He was surrounded by family and friends who were hostile to civil rights, and of course we all knew we were right and if the "Yankees" would just "leave us alone" we could solve all our racial problems by ourselves. In most, cases, even "Christians" were white supremacists, generally refusing to allow blacks into their churches for worship (they could come in to clean, of course).
All this by way of saying Ned can understand Barbour waxing eloquent about his slanted perception of the halcyon days of the '60s in Mississippi, watching the girls and not paying attention to Martin Luther King. But one expects more of persons who aspire to the presidency (or perhaps after George Bush all standards are off).
One other thing troubles Ned: in its editorial excoriating Barbour, the Times went back to remarks he made in 1982. Ned shudders to think what could be made of his own remarks from the 60s through the 70s, as should we all. Let him who is without sin...
The danger here is that if a lie or distortion is repeated often enough, aided and abetted by propagandists in Fox "News" and other reactionary outlets, it begins to challenge the truth, and we begin to see "debates" about which side is "right" about southern history.
Ned had some complimentary things to say about Barbour in his handling of the Gulf oil spill. But he thinks that Haley should now crawl back into his hole for a few weeks, and watch some videos of dogs attacking civil rights marchers to get his perspectives properly aligned, and to get himself "properly motivated" to govern a state a fifth of whose citizens are black and may not share his "whitewashed" views of southern history.