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No one ever said ‘woke’ means ‘smart’ — idiots vandalize statue of the wrong Gen. Lee

By Becket Adams

Published February 22, 2019 9:28pm ET

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No one ever said ‘woke’ means ‘smart’ — idiots vandalize statue of the wrong Gen. Lee — Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak. | (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Carolyn Kaster, File)

No one ever said being woke meant being smart.

Museum officials in Dunn, N.C., believe vandals torched a statue of local hero and World War II veteran Gen. William C. Lee thinking it was a memorial to that other Gen. Lee, as in Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

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