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Monday, May 31, 2010

Is That You Jefferson Davis?

During the May 19 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program Glen Beck said of the boycotts against Arizona "we're being pushed into an area where civil war is possible." He later suggested that President Obama is "trying to destroy the country." A day later on his show Rush Limbaugh echoed Beck's sentiment saying: "this is the kind of stuff that starts civil wars, folks."

They're pretty much correct that racist, inhumane laws and the backlash against them is what led to the civil war. But framing their displeasure in those terms seems to indicate they feel the confederacy was unjustly opposed in their fight to keep slavery.

3 comments:

  1. dog whistle politics on steroids

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  2. Their listeners are for the most part sympathetic to the confederacy's failed fight to keep slavery.

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