Matt Philbin uses a very long April 11 NewsBusters post to complain that MSNBC’s “liberal hosts and guests never miss an opportunity to associate today’s conservative movement with the Confederacy, secession, slavery and racism.”
What seems to have escaped Philbin: Between the suggestions of secession and expressed fondness for the Confederacy through proclamations by Republican politicians that he documents, conservatives are the ones who brought it up in the first place.
Philbin seems to have no problem with conservatives’ use of Confederate metaphors. He’s really just complaining that MSNBC highlighted them.