Disgusting GOP Revisionism

It's a good thing we have people like yourself on the left or there would be no truth in journalism at all. And to think that all of this honesty would not have been possible if Al Gore had not invented the internet!

It should be noted that, according to Pew Research, less than half of Democrats believe Obama is a Christian. The majority of Democrats, it would seem, believe he is either Muslim or entirely secular. Just pointing out that it's not just Republicans and "right wing radicals" who question Obama's religious affiliation. And, from a strictly Islamic viewpoint, given the fact that Obama's father was indeed a Musim, and given the fact that Islam is passed through the father (just as the Jewish faith is passed through the mother), in the Islamic viewpoint, Obama is indeed a Muslim.

Personally, I think Obama likely is a Christian, but a liberation theology Christian - a man who believes in Christ and His message only inasmuch as it provides a framework for "social justice", particularly as applied to the Black community.

Either way, Obama is not what one would consider a practicing Christian, not that that matters to the bulk of his base that believes religion is basically organized voodoo and supersitition anyway.

I had told myself I was swearing off commenting on these posts anymore - even reading them- because it just left me in a very un-Christian frame of mind. Because this one hits close to home for me, however, I cannot resist.

Fact-check one name, Mr. Winters & Ms. Maddow: Clarke Reed.

Mr. Reed is universally acknowledged as the father of the modern Southern GOP, and is also acknowledged to be Haley's political mentor. Beginning in the late 60s Mr Reed turned the small Mississippi Delta into a must-visit locale for GOP intellectuals, politicians & practitioners. His sole purpose: to challenge the "solid South", i.e. the segregrated South in which everyone and their momma was a Democrat. He wanted to challenge segregation by building up an alternative- a party that could appeal to the conservative tendencies of most Southerners and also challenge the reigning powers, & he has (obviously) been wildly successful in this. He never gets credit, however, because liberals (assisted by their friends in the mainstream media) have convinced themselves of the Gospel truth that is Nixon's so-called "Southern strategy". Economic issues, as much as race, played into this shift from Democrat to Republican, issues that are still at play today as seen in the disenchantment of most middle class whites from the Obama administration. And today, like then, liberals do themselves a disfavor by convincing themselves that race, and race alone, is the driving factor.

Clarke Reed. Look him up. And open your mind!

Perhaps, like the forged documents the Democrats tried to use against Bush, his statement was 'false, but accurate'? :-)

For Barbour, historical truth is just one of those inconvenient "nits," like when his buddy, the Virginia governor, left out any mention of slavery in his proclamation about Confederate History Month.

Hmmm.... a strange article

Any chance that southern "Yellow Dog" democrats were / are far more conservative than northren democrats and actively supported segregation?

Anecdotaly, I know a county in Oklahoma that is staunchly democratic and no.... the county is not an example of inter racial harmony.

People created and supported segregation, not "democrats" or "republicans"

My attempt at a quick fact check:

According to wikipedia, he skipped the first semester of his Senior year at Ole Miss to work on the Nixon campaign, presumably in the fall of 1968, so he would have been a freshman in the fall of 65. All he claimed in the video clip was that he went to integrated schools, he then specified college, this appears to be true, for his undergrad work and its also noted he didn't get his JD until 72. His point about the Southern Democrats is also true, as a greater percentage of Republicans then Democrats supported the civil rights legislation on the 1960's.

Per MSW "Yesterday, in an interview at the Hoover Institution, Mississippi’s Governor Haley Barbour said that he attended an integrated high school"

I didn't hear him say this, please sight the time of the clip I should reference.

The Republicans know nothing of the past or the present. They just make stuff up. They can't even agree on which fantasy they believe. I have heard conservatives tell me that Barack Obama is a Muslim, atheist and even a Jew. They simultaneously believe that undocumented immigrants are all on welfare and have taken away all our jobs. They believe that Ronald Reagan balanced the federal budget and that there were no terrorist acts on American soil while George W. Bush was president. They believe everything they hear on FOX "News" is fair and balanced. The scariest part of all is that these people vote.

And....

Boston is a pretty democratic city. Is there any chance that the man striking the black attorney with the American flag during the bussing riot voted democratic?

Maybe the claim that some old school democrats created, supported and maintained segregation in the south is not that far fetched?

Just cut the link, paste and then google to see the picture.

http://www.thenoiseboard.com/index.php?showtopic=185206

and this is distinctly Catholic because . . .?

What continues to amaze me is that the Republicans routinely lie, and Catholics who think that the GOP is the pro-life party seem not to recognize that as a moral problem.

Anyone else see the irony in MSNBC and NCR lecturing ANYONE on integration...as for blacks employed be either one, there is...well I'm sure there are some behind the scenes, or in the audience or perhaps subscriber base.

Its the Democrats who are rewriting history, they have never been the champions of civil rights they claim, it was the Southern Democrats who most fiercely opposed racial integration. The Democrats instead claim otherwise and constantly reach back to a rewritten time when they had the moral high ground. Today they are promoting abortion, in particular in the black community all the while claiming they are not the party of racism. They've convinced themselves that the Republicans, the party that doesn't want to kill black babies, They're the true racists. Unbelievable!!!

I haven't listened to Maddow's takedown of Barbour, but Barbour may in fact be telling the truth, WRT his high school. My parents attended a VA high school in the late 50s-early 60s during the "massive resistance era." During this time, in fact, there were a few black students at their high school - the yearbooks bear this fact out. This was not full desegregation, and it was certainly not full integration, but the color line had been in fact broken at least in that high school in that school district. It is not impossible, therefore, that something similar occured in the school districts in and around Yazoo City MS. The question is not what the state government in Mississippi in Jackson did or wanted, but what the local school district did. To answer that question would probably require some amount of research that could not quickly be uncovered through the internet or lexis/nexis. Perhaps someone can find Barbour's hs yearbooks?

Also, WRT to the modern Republican Party in the South, there were not just the Helms' and the Thurmond's that rose to prominence during the 60s-70s. The Linwood Holtons and the Jim Holshausers were also immediate beneficiaries of the Nixon ascendency. Likewise, one cannot ignore the importance of the Republican Party in mountain communities who wanted to be left alone by state capitals in much the same way teapartiers want to be "left alone by Washington." Race was not a big issue because there were few blacks in those communities, but historically such Republicans were loosely allied with "negro" interests. The Southern Strategy was, to many people, not so much about race as it was about breaking up political oligarchies which happened to be, in many places, very racist as well.

This is similiar to Bill Clinton saying that he remembers black churches being firebombed when he was young. Truth is it never happeened in his hometown. Why just single out the Republicans?

It bears adding that the ONLY party to have an actual member of the Klan as a member in the US Senate is the Democrats w/ Sen. Robert Byrd. Of course there was no white-washing history when all of the articles surrounding his death conveniently ignored to mention that fact. So not only was he anti-black, but anti-Catholic as well.

The Democrats are trying to create their own storyline for this fall's comeuppance: all you people are racists. If you oppose us, its only because you are white and you are racist and you are angry and you are stupid. Its quite a different story from 2 year ago when Obama's election was heralded as the flowering of Democracy in all its goodness.

More TeaParty/GOP "revisionism"...

1. There were WMD in IRAQ.

2. Barack Obama is a Muslim.

3. Republicans are the party of "family values."

4. Republicans are the party of "prosperity."

5. The U.S. was never attacked during Bush's watch.

6. Republicans were/are supporters of Medicare and Social Security.

7. Republicans vote their moral values.

8. Death Panels.

9. Barack Obama was not born in the U.S.

10. Republicans care about the middle class.

Good article Mr. Winter's you have told the truth about the current republican party propaganda line. They have no shame and will make up anything that will hurt the Democrats and President Obama. As the SC congressman yelled out during President Obama's State of the Union speech...
"You Lie," certainly applies to the republican party.

DEar Michael: Well, I am glad to see that my old CUA student is still actively involved in politics!! Good posting on "revising history"--let us not forget all of the Democrats who are currently excusing their votes for the Iraq War by saying "Bush lied to us." Strange, but at the time of the "debate" on the Iraq War all I remember from the Democratic leadership was "we've got to endorse the war so the Republicans will not attack us as "unpatriotic" and "weak." " Sounds like they had a lot of reasons to embrace the war other than the Bush administration's case for the war. As for people in the South that went along with segregation, in human terms I understand why they did what they did: MY late grandfather, who lived in Birmingham from 1950-1974, was one of those who did not go along with segregation--and he lived with numerous death threats for years. However, those who lacked his courage should not now "revise" the reasons why they acted as they did. Keep up the good writing!! Sincerely, Respectfully and In Christ, Ernest Evans (Your old political science professor)