Josh Marshall, flush with being credited for bringing Trent Lott so much grief, is now trying to do the same to John Ashcroft. However, the quotes he posts from an interview with Southern Partisan magazine, are not akin to what Lott said. Ashcroft was criticizing the revisionism that has infected the African American community that denounces George Washingtion and Thomas Jefferson by applying modern sensibilities to them, as if everyone in the 18th century were NAACP members and these two were resisting the tide.

By these standards, FDR was a vicious anti-semite. Remember that the revisionists are also calling Abraham Lincoln a racist, as well. (Of course, he was. He was a Republican, wasn't he?)