A mental institution. the republican party now is just a bunch of religious lunatics, civil war reenactors. i don t think it was me who changed so much. wow. a lot goings-on this morning. good morning everyone. welcome to morning joe. it s the top of the hour. look at what we ve got here. donny deutsche is here. harold ford junior author of more davids than goliaths. willie has just sat down. are you okay, donny. i found out morning joe facts that the 6:00 hour, very interesting. kudos to all of you early risers, the power people, the more powerful the earlier they are up. as an ad guy, i learned something today. from 6:00 to 7:00 and they re all sweating, just like me. i m sweating because my body is still trying to digest the three
Bloody fighting in the battle of gettysburg culminating when thousands of confederate soldiers charged the union line, gettysburg is where our own peter doocy is and civil war reenactors are there, going back in time. reporter: there are 2,000 of them, on behalf of the north and south and these the guys that keep history alive and everything you can see on the battlefield is completely authentic and these guys are so dedicated to keeping it real, they act like it is 1863 even when they are done shooting at each other, camping out for days without any modern luxuries. you had your and service here and any time you go out there and, you imagine it being your ancestors.
About successiosuccession. the a.g. down in florida s talking about, what, the invasion of the state s sovereignty because the health care bill. a lot of pre-civil war antibellum lingo coming out dripping it is from lips of these southern republicans. i think there is a connection myself. absolutely. you know, we talked about this on our show about a year ago. and i thought i was making a joke, and i said you know, somewhere along the line 20 or 30 years ago, the left in this country moved to the center and the right moved into a mental hospital. i said they were just a bunch of religious religious lunatics, flat earthers and civil war reenactors but that s actually kind of true. they are civil war re-enactors and this sleazy idea that comes up over and over again now, that somehow we re going to recast this civil war as a states
Not a that he s trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn t amount to diddly. doesn t amount to diddly. barbour is already catching flak for those comments. the democratic national committee issued a statement saying slavery is a big deal and barbour is defending the indefensible. straight ahead, we ll hear from a whole panel of civil war reenactors to hear what they think about this controversy. well, right now we re going to run the story by cnn political editor, mark preston. mark, this is getting really political now. it s gone from a blue and gray issue to an issue about red states or, i don t understand why it s becoming political. what is political about this? what is left and right about this issue? you know, don, it really comes down to politics, right? whatever you talk about race, you have to be very careful about how you put it in the context you put it. if you listen to what governor barbour said right there, he said that, look, why should we why do w
And that s when succession came about. they wanted to secede, to secede from the union. no, i absolutely disagree with you. let s talk about some real evidence. hang on you said what you had to say. i know, let me talk. i let you talk for a long time and i ll give you your choice. am i to believe the history book, that what i ve read about, what the history books say, what every other historian says, my own ears and my own eyes, or am i to believe what you say and what civil war reenactors to say. well, let s go to that. let s talk about that. let s talk about the establishment of the public school system in 1865 and how the northern school teachers came here to demonize and divide and separate black folks and white folks in the south. but more importantly, let s talk about abraham lincoln and his amendment. if the southern men wanted to maintain the economic institution of slavery, they would have went along with lincoln s support of the amendment. and basically what linco