Yes, this is the second post about Glenn “Manbaby” Beck today, because on his radio show he managed to top his hero-worship of Joe McCarthy, by saying that race relations went wrong “in the lead-up to the Civil War.”

Because according to Beck, before that “we were moving on the right track.” Un-freaking-believable.

“The things that have happened in this country, where it really started to go wrong, was in the lead-up to the Civil War. And it became politicized, and it was all about slavery. Before then, we were moving on the right track.”

As bizarre as this opinion may seem, this is simply another front in the right’s ongoing campaign of historical revisionism. You may remember that at CPAC 2010, one of the workshops was titled “Friend or Foe? Abraham Lincoln on Liberty,” sponsored by Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty organization. The Ron Paulians, aided by racist neo-Confederate throwbacks like Lew Rockwell and Robert Stacy McCain, have been pushing the demonization of Abraham Lincoln to the right wing for years, and it’s beginning to go mainstream.