What a coincidence. Tucked deep inside today's obituary of former "Meet the Press" host Bill Monroe is this interesting nugget:
"Civil rights became one of the hallmarks of Mr. Monroe's early career. While news director in the early 1950s at the New Orleans NBC-TV affiliate, he produced some of the station's first editorials and often weighed in on school desegregation. His efforts landed him on a White Citizens' Council's list of 'traitors to the South,' he once said, and led to threats to him and his family."
Threats? From those folks that Haley Barbour recently insisted were such good guys? Gee!
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