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Today’s lessons in the liberal arts
By Ned | May 1, 2008
First up in freshman English, Paul over at TPM provides scenes of disgraced former GSA head receiving a badly needed grammar lesson:
Next up, American history. Listen, FOX News, Stephen Douglas is the guy who Lincoln debated in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Frederick Douglas was an emancipated slave who never ran for office and never debated Lincoln. Lincoln and Frederick Douglas were both anti-slavery, and Stephen Douglas was staunchly pro-slavery.
This is worth noting, because the whole point of the Lincoln Douglas debates was the slavery debate.
With all that in mind, even if you had never seen a picture of either Douglas in your life, it should be pretty obvious that Stephen Douglas was a white guy. Come on, people, this isn’t hard. You’re embarrassing yourselves. Like, more than usual.
(Smaller note for Matthew Yglesias: you could make a counterfactual about Stephen Douglas and Lincoln and the electoral college and whatnot, but it wouldn’t really work in relation to the election during which the Lincoln-Douglas debates were being held, because that was a Senate election. Which Douglas won.)
Topics: Corruption, The Media |
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