Modern Lincoln-Douglas Debates

If you're looking for something funny this afternoon, something to make you laugh and get a little frustrated at the state of the media in this country, look no further than this amazing post at Obsidian Wings, which plays the historical revisionist card wonderfully portraying how the seminal 1858 debates would have gone down in our modern climate:

GIBSON: I noticed, Mr. Lincoln, that your American flag pin was upside down…

LINCOLN: Yes, the wind caught it. Now, as I was saying...

GIBSON: We get questions about this all the time over at Powerline and on Hannity’s talk show. Mr. Douglas has said this is a major vulnerability for you in the fall. So I’ll ask again – do you love America?

LINCOLN: (scowling with a forced smile). Yes.

GIBSON: If your love for America were ice cream, what flavor would it be?

LINCOLN: (pausing with disgust and turning back to camera) Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new -- North as well as South.

DOUGLAS: He didn’t answer the question Charlie. This fall, that question is going to be on the minds of the American public. I’ve proudly stated that my love for America is Very Berry Strawberry.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858

(via BoingBoing)