Catholic League president Bill Donohue corrects the record about the Ku Klux Klan:

Chris Matthews of MSNBC was man enough to apologize to viewers for a comment made by reporter Thomas Roberts who took Mitt Romney to task for using the phrase “Keep America American.” Roberts said the phrase was “a rallying cry for the KKK group, and intimidation against blacks, gays and Jews.”

Just to correct the record, the Klan was founded in 1865 to intimidate blacks, Catholics and Jews, not “blacks, gays and Jews.”

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