Barbour Runs with the Bigots

So, first Haley Barbour goes to a CCC picnic. Then he denies knowing what the CCC is after they post his picture up on their website. Now he's saying he won't ask them to take it down.
A perfectly reasonable thing for Barbour to do would be to say "I can't make them take the picture down. However, I wish they would as it wrongfully implies that I endorse their views, which I don't."

But, that wouldn't be a prudent thing to do, politically. So he won't.

Haley Barbour Flashback (from the 10/20/82 NYT):

But the racial sensitivity at Barbour headquarters was suggested by an exchange between the candidate and an aide who complained that there would be ''coons'' at a campaign stop at the state fair. Embarrassed that a reporter heard this, Mr. Barbour warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks.