Gimme Some Of That Faux News!

The only good thing to be said about Faux . . . er, Fox News is that their ratings ain’t lookin’ so hot these days.

Neither are the ratings for other cable news channels, but at least you wouldn’t expect them to make a whopper of a mistake in promoting a Clinton-Obama debate based on the legendary Douglas-Lincoln debates and being so impaired as to believe that the Douglas was abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass.

Which prompted Hilzoy to note at Obsidian Wings:

“Legally, for a political party to run Frederick Douglass for federal office would have been on a par, not with running a citizen of another country, but with running a shovel or a cow: a piece of property whose nature precluded its being a citizen, let alone a Senator. The most Douglass might have aspired to, in 1858, was to be granted such rights in something like the way Caligula made his horse a Consul.”

A-freaking-hem.