Democrats = KKK

On Friday, Bob devoted a good chunk of time pimping a new book by serial liar David Barton. The book purportedly documents the association between the post-Civil War Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan. Bob provided his usual keen intellectual insight by merely reading a WorldNetDaily article practically word-for-word.

Of course, it's no big secret that the signer of the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln, was a Republican. It's also no secret that racist Southerns flocked to the Democratic Party and African-Americans flocked to the Republicans after the Civil War. But Barton, WND, and Dutko act like they just undiscovered some hidden facts and therefore present day African-Americans should naturally flock back to the Republicans because the Democrats are a bunch of cross-burning Oak-tree-lynching racists.

Luckily, an intelligent listener called in during "free-for-all" Friday set Bob straight. The caller made two important points, which I will reiterate.

First, Bob's "reporting" of this story was irrelevant. African-American voters make their political choices based on what is in their best interest today, not their ancestors' best interest in the years following the Civil War.

Second, Bob's "reporting" was incomplete. Specifically, Bob refused to mention Republican's Southern Strategy. The Southern Strategy was the Republican's attempt to lock up the Electoral votes of the Southern states by appealing to the racists who were unsatisfied with civil rights legislation championed by the Democrats. (Of course, by not mentioning this racist policy, Bob is lying by omission).

Give it up, Bob. Stop trying to equate the racists of the KKK to the present-day Democratic Party. It's just plain dishonest.