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Wow, have any of you been over here to this thread? Can I tell you how sick I am of people telling me how terrible and racist that all of us in the South are? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/809331/posts

The sun, nearing winter solstice, travels low across the sky, from sunrise, at left, to sunset, in this multiple-exposure made at the Marshall Point Light, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2002, in St. George, Maine. The sun's position is recorded at 50-minute intervals during the short nine-hour day. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Hillary's Trent Lott Moment
Newsmax ^ | December 19, 2002 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 12/19/2002 3:41 PM EST by Paul Atreides

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton condemned Trent Lott late Wednesday, telling reporters that she could never vote for him to continue on as Senate Majority Leader after hearing his remarks about Strom Thurmond.

No doubt Lott is in a pile of trouble. But at least he didn't deliver his offending statement while adopting "a mock African-American accent," the way Hillary did - according to the Los Angeles Times - while addressing a group of supporters in Washington, D.C. a few years back.

On April 26, 1996, Mrs. Clinton was the star speaker at an Emily's List fundraiser, where she recounted an anecdote about San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

The LA Times reported the next day:

"Speaking in a mock African American accent, Mrs. Clinton said that Brown asked two years ago to be introduced to 'this Emily List' whom he supposed to be a wealthy Democratic donor."

According to the Times quote, Hillary's speech pattern was more suitable for an old Amos n' Andy broadcast than a politically correct fundraiser.

"She's supportin' all these people," Clinton huffed while poking fun at Brown's ignorance. "She's supportin' Sen. Dianne Feinstein . She's supported Sen. Barbara Boxer . . . . She supported everybody. Why won't she support me?"

The then-first lady told the group that when she explained to Brown, then California's Assembly speaker, that Emily's List was a political fund-raising organization dedicated to electing female Democrats, he tried to cover up his gaffe.

"Oh, I knew that all the time," she quoted Brown as saying.

Sounding steamed over the racially offensive remarks, Brown spokesman P.J. Johnson told the Times afterwards, "The mayor is well aware of what Emily's List is."

But by the time the San Francisco Examiner caught up with him a few days later, Johnson was toeing the party line.

Asked if the mayor objected to Hillary's using a mock black accent to tell a story about Brown's ignorance, Johnson told the paper that his boss hadn't heard the speech himself.

But he added, "It depends on how she said it. The mayor's not a real uptight person. If Hillary was in good humor, it wouldn't be a problem."

Frank Wilkinson, press aide for Emily's List, told the Examiner that Clinton delivered her Willie Brown quotes not in a black accent, as characterized by the Los Angeles Times, but "in a Willie Brown accent. She was imitating Willie Brown."

Her story was "very funny," Wilkinson insisted. "There was great deal of appreciation for Mayor Brown in the warm way in which the first lady told it."