Ed Show Online Poll Asks: ‘Are Conservatives the New Confederates?’

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz is not particularly subtle in his political analysis. Case in point, his big online poll question today is: “Are conservatives the new Confederates?” The response was a resounding “yes.”

Schultz was spurred to ask this question by Reverend Jesse Jackson saying in a POLITICO interview yesterday, “The tea party is the resurrection of the Confederacy, it’s the Fort Sumter tea party.”

But Schultz’s poll takes things one step further. Jackson’s comment was just about the tea party. Schultz is asking if all conservatives are Confederates. As of this typing, “yes” has 1,336 votes, making up 74.18 percent of total votes.

Jackson elaborated on his remarks on Schultz’s MSNBC show, citing the “anti-voting rights, anti-women’s rights, anti-labor… Confederate agenda” of the modern right.

Watch the Ed Show clip below, via MSNBC:

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