Bottom Lines From Sen. Lott?

Washington Post ^ | January 22, 2004 | Richard Leiby

[Mean Daddy]

Bottom Lines From Sen. Lott?

• Sen. Trent Lott, whose impolitic remarks at Strom Thurmond's 100th-birthday celebration cost him his leadership role, may still be suffering from foot-in-mouth disease.

In the Washingtonian's February issue, National Editor Kim Eisler -- whom Lott rejected last year as a possible co-author of his memoirs -- quotes the Mississippi Republican as referring to former Carter administration official and journalist Hodding Carter III as "Hodding the Turd" and calling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) "butt ugly." (Lott was referring, Eisler reports, to the way Clinton looked in 1974, but he "allowed as how she looks better now.")

Holding to senatorial decorum, Clinton would not comment yesterday. But Carter was enthusiastic. "That's my boy," he said of Lott, laughing and recalling that their mutual "animus" dated to the days when Carter owned a newspaper in Greenville, Miss. "I ran editorials saying then what he is now: a racist piece of dreck."

Lott spokeswoman Susan Irby said: "These are inaccurate ramblings of a disgruntled writer who didn't get his book contract.''

[Intolerant in NJ]

Or how 'bout this:

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Couldn't they have worked in how Senator Mrs. Bill Clinton said this year that Gandhi ran a gas station in Michigan? They did make sure to mention Trent's comment about Strom Thurmond (a comment he had reportedly been making for years without complaint).

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...but he "allowed as how she looks better now."

Are you sure???

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Butt Ugly: