'The Daily Show' Fact Checks Andrew Napolitano's Civil War Revisionism With A Game Show

[DonViejo]

BRENDAN JAMES – MARCH 12, 2014, 9:16 AM EDT

Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" on Tuesday took his mockery of Fox News' Andrew Napolitano to the next level, hosting a mini-game show to debunk the commentator's revisionist views on the Civil War and American slavery.

After a lively debate with Napolitano on the motives and merits of Lincoln's war to abolish slavery — which the Fox commentator claims was unnecessarily expensive and bloody — Stewart walked his guest over to a panel of American historians for his quiz show "The Weakest Lincoln."

Slowly but surely, the scholars debunked Napolitano's arguments, from the idea that slavery was dying to the claim that the government could have purchased all slaves from the South.

&quot The South) shot first," quipped James Oakes of the City University of New York, "and you don't mess with Lincoln." Finally, it was game over when Napolitano tried to claim Lincoln himself used federal marshals to chase down escaped slaves. "That's not true!" all three academics said in unison. And so ended this edition of "The Weakest Lincoln."

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[bullwinkle428]

1. This was hilarious! Well worth the view.

[Turbineguy]

2. Maybe Fox News

is setting the stage for re-writing their support of Putin. After all, if those who took over the Ukrainian government turn out to be right wing nazis, they'd have to throw Putin under the bus as the Northern Aggressor.

Sometimes propaganda has to test the credulity of its audience just to make sure the message is working.

Of course, in the case of the Civil War, the whole thing could have been prevented if only the northern States had seceded too.

[sharp_stick]

3. I love to see any Faux News

asshole get his comeuppance but damn that was cringeworthy. They handed him his ass.

[Bandit]

4. I especially liked the part where he said Lincoln tricked the South into attacking Fort Sumpter

I wish people would call the Civil War by it's real name. The War of Southern Treason...

[Gothmog]

5. Jon was in great form last night

Napolitano is an idiot

[deutsey]

6. Well, I have to give Napolitano some credit

for playing along with Stewart and coming across as something of a good sport.

[Tx4obama]

7. Kick. n/t