You have to have never listened to Rush Limbaugh to buy that he said this:

Slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

But then people believed the “phony soldiers” lie too. Some people — including some very influential ones — will believe anything, I guess, if it contributes to lazy, rah-rah politics.

H/T to Powerline. John Hinderaker filed it under “most ridiculous of the statements falsely attributed to Rush.”