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As soon as Air Force Won Too lifted off with Lady M aboard, BO and Joey ran out for burgers and fries at the Shake Shack. He really shouldn’t do that. This sort of passive aggressive behavior completely sabotages MO’s Healthy Eating agenda and gives conservatives another excuse to accuse BO of behaving like an adolescent. “If she asks, it was all Joey’s idea.” And while the guys were goofing off at the malt shop, Lady M was in Topeka, working hard to advance our agenda. MO leads a roundtable discussion at Monroe High School in Topeka, Kansas Note to...

Drag a $100 bill through MSNBC and there's no telling what you'll find. On today's Morning Joe, the ever-classy James Carville likened GOP primary voters to low-quality prison inmates. Carville made his asinine analogy in responding to Joe Scarborough's suggestion that Republicans can still prevail in coming election cycles if they do the "smart thing." Carville said the situation reminded him of what Lester Maddox said the problem was in the Georgia prison system: the quality of the inmates. According to Carville, the GOP's problem is the quality of Republican primary voters. View the video here.

(CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday that racial politics played a role in South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's speech to Congress last week and in some of the opposition the president has faced since taking office.

You seem to have forgotten that loyal Democrats elected you as mayor and as state senator. Loyal Democrats, including members of my family and me, elected you as lieutenant governor and as governor. It was a loyal Democrat, Lester Maddox, who assigned you to high positions in the state government when you were out of office. It was a loyal Democrat, Roy Barnes, who appointed you as U.S. Senator when you were out of office. By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust. Great Georgia Democrats who served in the past, including Walter George, Richard Russell, Herman Talmadge,...

The heated exchange on Thursday took place at about 7:50pm EDT as the group sat in MSNBC's outdoor set up near Madison Square Garden. The MRC's Geoff Dickens took down the highlights: Chris Matthews: "You know the old question in every political campaign is do you go hard or do you go soft? David Gergen. That fella just went hard. Was that smart?" David Gergen: "He went hate, he didn't go hard. That was a speech, in contrast to Dick Cheney's speech which was well within the bounds of political discourse and it was a tough speech. And, and, and...

Indeed, an enraged David Gergen dared to compare Miller to Lester Maddox, the segregationist governor for whom Miller worked more than 40 years ago. Gergen said Maddox was "a man of hate," and that Miller was "a man of hate" too. John Podhoretz in New York Post I mean, he [Zell Miller] came to prominence, you recall, as the chief of staff to Lester Maddox, the last segregationist governor of Georgia. Mark Shields on NewsHour

When Strom Thurmond and Lester Maddox died at the end of June, I was making my way through "Reporting Civil Rights," the Library of America's new two-volume anthology of American journalism -- newspaper stories, magazine pieces, book excerpts, and other writings -- on what has been called the Second American Revolution: the 20th-century struggle for racial freedom and justice in the United States. One doesn't have to read up on the civil rights movement to know that the South Thurmond and Maddox departed from last month is utterly changed from the South in which they grew up. But it's one...

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ATLANTA -- Gov. Sonny Perdue ordered flags on state buildings lowered to half-staff Wednesday for the death of former Gov. Lester Maddox, but faced criticism for not doing the same after the death of Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson. Perdue's executive order requires flags to remain lowered until sunset on the day of Maddox's funeral, which had not yet been scheduled. But for Jackson, who died Monday, only the flags on the state Capitol will be lowered and for just one day, Saturday, the day of his funeral. "I found that insulting. I found that repugnant," said state Rep....

<p>Lester Maddox, a former governor of Georgia who staunchly opposed racial integration in the 1960s, died yesterday in Atlanta. He was 87.</p> <p>Mr. Maddox had survived a previous battle with cancer and had suffered other health problems for years. He died in an hospice after developing pneumonia, family members said.</p>

Click here to see Google NEWS Search for "Lester Maddox" as a phrase and the word "democrat" Note that while 63 hits are reported, when similarities are removed (eg., multiple hits because an Associated Press article appears in amny papers), it just two different articles. Go to the search box on that page and remove "+democrat" and the number jumps to 358 and there is not a lot of similarities, they're different article. Look at the bottomm and you'll see it says there is nine pages of hits. THE LIBERAL MEDIA DOESN'T WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE AX...

ATLANTA, Jun 25, 2003 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Lester Maddox, the restaurateur who became a symbol of segregationist defiance and then Georgia governor in a fluke election, died Wednesday in an Atlanta hospice, family members said. He was 87. Maddox, who had battled cancer since 1983, had cracked two ribs when he fell about 10 days ago at an assisted living home where he was recovering from intestinal surgery, his daughter Virginia Carnes said Tuesday. Maddox became famous in the 1960s when he closed and then sold his Pickrick fried chicken restaurant in Atlanta rather than serve blacks....

Family Friend says Maddox Gravely Ill ATLANTA (AP) Former Gov. Lester Maddox, 87, one of the Old South's last segregation governors, was gravely ill at an Atlanta hospice Tuesday, said a family friend who wished to be unnamed. Maddox has suffered numerous illnesses since leaving the public spotlight, including cancer, a stroke, kidney stones, two heart attacks and an intestinal blockage. The Marietta Daily Journal reported in Tuesday's edition that Maddox suffered two cracked ribs at an assisted living home about 10 days ago, where he was recovering from intestinal surgery, and later developed pneumonia. Maddox, a high school dropout...

George Will recently appeared on C-SPAN’s "In-Depth" series to discuss his writings. The Washington Post columnist commented while discussing his 1968 dissertation at Princeton, Beyond the Reach of Majorities: Closed Questions in the Open Society: When you [Brian Lamb] and I were young people in college, it was an open question whether states had a right to force public accommodations – Lester Maddox’s Pickrick restaurant in Georgia – to take all comers…Well, 50 years later, that’s a stone, cold, dead, closed question, and aren’t we glad? That’s progress. In that sense, we’re less tolerant, but who cares? First, an historical...