The Washington Post has found it. The smoking gun that will end John roberts nomination to the Supreme Court once and for all. While writing an article for his boss, Ronald Reagan, Roberts committed the following unpardonable crime:

A fastidious editor of other people's copy as well as his own, Roberts began with the words "Until about the time of the Civil War." Then, the Indiana native scratched out the words "Civil War" and replaced them with "War Between the States."

Horrors! That's what a southerner would call the Civil War. Ergo, John Roberts is in favor of slavery and opposed to civil rights!! Nonsense, you say? The Post has found an expert to prove you wrong.

"Many people who are sympathetic to the Confederate position are more comfortable with the idea of a 'War Between the States,' " McSeveney explained. "People opposed to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s would undoubtedly be more comfortable with the words he chose."

Fortunately for America, we are assured that this reckless, racist phraseology was caught before Reagan submitted his article.

But in the end, someone must have had second thoughts about using it with this more national audience. When the article was published in August 1984 under Reagan's name, it employed the more generally accepted "Civil War" terminology.

Obviously, Roberts is a Confederate sympathiser, and must be stopped. The Washington Post has proved it.