Fox News Lincoln-Douglas Graphic Shows Frederick Douglass

Hillary Clinton grabbed some headlines this past weekend by challenging Barack Obama to a "Lincoln-Douglas style" debate. Of course, she was referencing the debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas during their Illinois Senate race.

But someone apparently missed that memo at Fox & Friends, and MSNBC noticed — last night on "Verdict" with Dan Abrams and tonight on "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann. noticed. Watch below:

Comments

[mjc]

So many young Americans are missing an accurate history of their country and so many older Americans, in influential jobs and powerful places, missed an accurate history of their country. Sad, isn't?

[ZeroVoices]

It's a 50 / 50 split on HOW DUMB the people working at Faux news are. After all, all the kids who drop out of school, and the ones who graduate but only read at a 7th grade level, can't all work at fast food joints. Just the fact that Faux makes so many stupid arguments that go against common sense, tells me they are not all the "sharpest tools in the shed"!

[talkingclock]

Right y ou are

[thirdgo]

Could Fox POSSIBLY be this stupid?

[mollysgran]

Is there really any question? (Stupid is the nice word for the folks at Fox).

[talkingclock]

you're so right, wonder what people of the world think of this?

[Strayker]

Does a fox shit in the woods?

[protagonia]

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Could Fox POSSIBLY be this stupid?

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No. FOX reporters are liars. Their loyal viewers are stupid.

[susane07]

The Douglas thing is a hoot - can you believe how stupid the Fox people are?

Hillary's a panderer and will say and do anythiing for a vote. Unlike Obama, she has no character.

[SCG2]

Do you think fox viewers could make the distinction?

[theswirls.blogspot.com]

HA HA HA

[wm1066]

I know, I was feeling depressed until I saw this and all I can do is laugh, its just too funny.

[BillyT]

Hillary voters generally have not gone beyond high school, or gotten through it.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/106879/Education-Clearly-Divides-Preferences-White-Democrats.aspx

These also happen to be Fox News watchers since they don't know the difference between news and GOP propaganda.

These people don't know or care about Stephen Douglas. They also don't care that Hillary and Bill brought NFATA to them but now Hillary is selling the view that she will reverse it. Or that the gas tax repeal sounds good but will save them less than $30 while there is no control on oil companies raising the gas prices to fill the void.

They get screwed when Bill and Hillary sold their jobs out for $110 million paydays, and then will get screwed again when they fall for her ruse to end NAFTA, something she had brought upon them.

ow stupid. perfect example why education matters, so you can see right through her dirty political tricks.

[noamjunior]

get over yourself

[noamjunior]

And speaking of the gas tax- you are completely misrepresnting her opinion

[talkingclock]

Like draws like

[bija]

The only time I ever see anything on Fox "news" is when there are clips shown other places like here. I have my remote programmed to not show it on my cable lineup.

[choirgirl]

me too. and the fox 'business' channel too. if the rethugs are defeated, i think faux news will go belly up.

[rich3324]

Wonder if any of Fox's viewers caught it?

[DakotaMinnesota]

Intentional. If you keep falling for the "moron" act that the Right puts up, George Bush included, you're gonna let them "bumble" their way right into a complete fascist takeover of this place.

Obama '08
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[Mike169]

Extra "s". Different color. One a Senator from Illinois the other an escaped slave. Maybe Fox is as stupid as everyone thinks.

[Tonyreg]

Actually, you ctitics have it wrong. One of the psychological implications of this is that Hillary is looking more like Lincoln every day. Talking physical appearance not implied statesmanship.

[Denni]

Is it any wonder why Fox News viewers are so grossly misinformed? THEY overwhelmingly believed WMDs had been found in Iraq, even AFTER Bush and Cheney admitted there were no WMDs.

[talkingclock]

Grossly misinformed is an understatement.

[olivia]

This was not a mistake, it was deliberate.

Fox News viewers get what they deserve: deliberate lies.

[sweetme]

Idiots.

[protagonia]

fox news could not survive without idiots. Nobody over a certain IQ believes them. Not one.

[adavis08]

Faux News knows what IQ predominately most of their views share. Most don't know and didn't do well when it came to History. The so called mistake was an intentional way to "blacken" Obama up. This is an old trick used by racists. Whenever a black person appeared to light skinned the newspaper or printed image would be darkened so that there would be no doubt of the person's race.