Yazoo City’s Twilight Zone

“‘I remember Martin Luther King came to town, in ’62. He spoke out at the old fairground and it was full of people, black and white,’ [Haley Barbour] said. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Garrow told the Jackson Clarion-Ledger this week that records show no signs of any such appearance.” [TPM] Update: MLK did go to Yazoo in 1966. [Politico]

nojo
1:38 pm • Monday • February 28, 2011
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ManchuCandidate

1:40 pm • Monday • February 28, 2011

Haley, you try too hard.

Jesuswalksinidaho

2:04 pm • Monday • February 28, 2011

@ManchuCandidate:
Soon he’ll be reminiscing about his days as a SNCC volunteer, back in the day when civil rights and states rights went hand in hand.

TimN

2:57 pm • Monday • February 28, 2011

Next thing you know he’ll be claiming to be the one said to Rosa Parks, “take it to the back of the bus, sister.”

nojo

2:58 pm • Monday • February 28, 2011

Update tacked on: MLK visited Yazoo in 1966. Do we give Haley the benefit of the doubt?

karen marie has her eyes tight shut

3:05 pm • Monday • February 28, 2011

Except what the update doesn’t tell you is that MLK’s visit to Yazoo was for a meeting with civil rights workers, not a public appearance, so it’s not “a relatively minor confusion of dates,” it’s bullshit.

Haley Barbour is a liar, and the truth won’t set him free.

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