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CNNs 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 South’s 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 don’t think we wanna compare Adolf Hitler to Abraham Lincoln,” Baldwin said as Starnes began packing his things up to leave.
Even Baldwin’s 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 don’t 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 South’s 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 don’t think we wanna compare Adolf Hitler to Abraham Lincoln,” Baldwin said as Starnes began packing his things up to leave.
Even Baldwin’s 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 don’t 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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