Risky Business, Bobby Jindal Edition

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during a rally for South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who announced her candidacy for a second term at the Bi-Lo Center, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, in Greenville, S.C. Support... Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks during a rally for South Carolina Republican Gov. Nikki Haley, who announced her candidacy for a second term at the Bi-Lo Center, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, in Greenville, S.C. Supporting Gov. Haley were Perry, Bobby Jindal-La. and Scott Walker-Wis. (AP Photo/ Richard Shiro) MORE LESS

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March 7, 2014 12:42 p.m.

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When you’re ballsy and stupid enough to accuse a prominent African-American lawyer with a history of Civil Rights activism (Eric Holder) of “standing in the school house door” like George Wallace (perhaps the most iconic defense of racial segregation in American history), you always run the risk that that guy’s sister-in-law might actually have been the young woman Wallace was blocking on that famous day in 1963.

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