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On Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour's response to the governor of Virginia's proclamation for Confederate History Month, on TheAtlantic.com

"The notion that slavery shouldn't be mentioned, because everyone knows it's bad, but Robert E. Lee should be because, apparently, no one knows he was a great general, is, well, ignorant. But it's a naked emperor ignorant, an ignorant brandished by someone without the wits to know what they don't know, a kind of ignorance squared."

--4/12/10

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