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‘Slave-Gate’ Joins Bill O’Reilly and Fox News’s Ugly History of Race-Baiting

HISTORY LESSON

The Fox News host says the slaves who built the White House were ‘well-fed and had decent lodgings’—but critics stop short of calling him a racist.

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