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Fox Embraces Pro-Confederate Line

by Josh Marshall
02.25.14 | 2:21 pm

This is pretty amazing. Fox is resurrecting the crudest and most discredited defenses of slavery and the Confederacy, arguing that slavery was on the way out and that the South was willing to let it go. It was just Lincoln who decided to launch a murderous and costly war for no reason. John Stewart takes it from there.

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