O’Reilly’s Comments On White House Slaves Echo Actual Slaveowners

On Monday night, Michelle Obama brought the house down at the DNC in Philadelphia with an emotional speech where she illustrated the greatness of America with this line: “Today, I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves.”

That remark prompted Bill O’Reilly to delve into the history of the construction of the White House. But his history lesson he provided his Fox News viewers on Tuesday was like one that would’ve been taught in Richmond in 1850.

After acknowledging that Michelle Obama’s comment was factually correct and providing a bit of the backstory, O’Reilly — a former history teacher — asserted that “Slaves that worked there were well fed and had decent lodgings provided by the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802.”...
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/07/27/3802395/bill-oreilly-michelle-obama-slaves-did-not-have-it-that-bad/