As presidential debates approach, tempers begin to flair and hyperbole tends to creep into coverage. However, with a headline like “Mike Huckabee Wants to Bring Back Slavery,” Luther Campbell of the Miami New Times crossed the line. Luther Campbell, the rapper who caused a social-conservative backlash back in 1989 with the song Me So Horny? Same guy.
So where exactly did Campbell get the outrageous idea that Huckabee wants to reverse the results of the Civil War? Campbell can't quite absorb that a politician might use a historical comparison without endorsing that historical comparison:
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