Sad

[Liz Rosenthal]

Before y'all indict society as a whole for what turned out to be a very minor incident (the "painting" of Abe), think about this:

The annual conclave of the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), certainly no apologist for government programs or civil unrest, has provided a platform to Thomas DiLorenzo, an academic and writer who argues vociferously that Lincoln was simply a bloodthirsty tyrant; CPAC also sanctioned the distribution of inflammatory pamphlets to that effect. Is it so hard to imagine that acolytes of DiLorenzo, presumably white and middle class, might feel motivated to deface something as prominent and majestic as Washington DC's Lincoln Memorial, knowing as they do that Lincoln "unnecessarily" got us into a bloody war in which three-quarters of a million people died?