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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNNs Baldwin schools pro-Confederate guest comparing Hitler to Lincoln
18 Aug 2017 at 16:01 ET
Bill Starnes, a member of the Confederate Sons of America, was defending the Souths honor to host Brooke Baldwin one minute and, somehow, comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler the next.
The pure fact is, Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler have a lot more in common than Robert E. Lee and Adolf Hitler, Starnes said. Robert E. Lee did not kill civilians. Abraham Lincoln did. The Union army came into the South and killed over 70,000 Southern civilians, men, women, and children, black and white, slave and free. So yeah, they did that.
I dont think we wanna compare Adolf Hitler to Abraham Lincoln, Baldwin said as Starnes began packing his things up to leave.
Even Baldwins other assembled panelists were dumbfounded by Starnes comments.
I was ready to talk to this gentleman about the pain of eras where people fight for the losing side and the lost cause and the fact that we dont hold every foot soldier responsible for the actions of their commanders, former Nixon library director Tim Natfali said. But then he compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler.
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Bill Starnes, a member of the Confederate Sons of America, was defending the Souths honor to host Brooke Baldwin one minute and, somehow, comparing Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler the next.
The pure fact is, Abraham Lincoln and Adolf Hitler have a lot more in common than Robert E. Lee and Adolf Hitler, Starnes said. Robert E. Lee did not kill civilians. Abraham Lincoln did. The Union army came into the South and killed over 70,000 Southern civilians, men, women, and children, black and white, slave and free. So yeah, they did that.
I dont think we wanna compare Adolf Hitler to Abraham Lincoln, Baldwin said as Starnes began packing his things up to leave.
Even Baldwins other assembled panelists were dumbfounded by Starnes comments.
I was ready to talk to this gentleman about the pain of eras where people fight for the losing side and the lost cause and the fact that we dont hold every foot soldier responsible for the actions of their commanders, former Nixon library director Tim Natfali said. But then he compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler.
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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/dont-tell-me-to-do-homework-cnns-baldwin-schools-pro-confederate-guest-comparing-hitler-to-lincoln/
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CNNs Baldwin schools pro-Confederate guest comparing Hitler to Lincoln (Original Post)
inanna
Aug 2017
OP
Lincoln freed the slaves, Hitler didn't believe in freedom for anyone.
dubyadiprecession
Aug 2017
#4
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)1. How do they let fuckers like this on in the first place? WTF
Johnny2X2X
(19,240 posts)2. Trump voters are insane!
Wow.
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)3. Wow, just wow.
How does any sane person come up with such stupid comparisons.
It's like saying:
"I like bacon more than Comet cleanser, because it is smoother going down when I swallow it."
Losers of wars pay a price, and sadly civilians die. They don't come out smelling like roses, and say "That was great, let's do it again!"
War sucks, we all know that.
People die from wars.
I think that we should avoid them, no?
And Hitler freed the Jews, as we all know, so he is like Lincoln!
Alternate facts!
dubyadiprecession
(5,734 posts)4. Lincoln freed the slaves, Hitler didn't believe in freedom for anyone.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)5. Well, bless his pointy little head inside his pointy little hood
trof
(54,256 posts)6. Yeah, and they both had facial hair.
Oh wait...so did Lee.
Oh well.