Lott hung himself when he went around apologizing to anyone who would listen. The remark he made was twisted out of context to be soooooo politically incorrect but the groveling he did afterward was disgusting.
Trent's groveling made it impossible for those few of here to defend him.
That was the White House's first serious PC breach and I just shrugged it off.
Doesn't mean I had to like it.
Folks have long memories.