Karl Rove Made A Joke About Slavery To A Bunch Of Hedge Fund Managers. It Didn't Go Well.

Politics has gotten very ugly. Arguments that used to be limited to fringe groups and the dark corners of the internet are now embraced by presidential candidates.

So what are things like behind closed doors? Even worse.

A column in the Financial Times published Tuesday gave us a peak. Mary Childs, a financial correspondent for FT, reported on what she observed at a private hedge fund conference in May.

The conference featured a debate between Donna Brazile, former campaign manager for Al Gore’s unsuccessful presidential run and prominent member of the Democratic Party, and Karl Rove, a Republican strategist and commentator best known as the chief political adviser to George W. Bush.

At a certain point the discussion Rove offered this “joke” to Brazile, who is black:

 I did you a great favor bringing you into politics in the 1860 campaign and this is how you repay me? We’re happy you got the right to vote but it wasn’t your current party that was responsible for it....
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/06/06/3785193/donna-brazile-karl-rove-1860-campaign-joke/