I believe he was just trying to compliment a fellow salon, but I'll concede your point: all conservatives are presumptive racists and deserve censure from the press, condemnation and then punishment from their peers on any questionable point of `political correctness', while Democrats should be able to express any irresponsible slur that comes to their minds without fear of recrimination because they were simply mistaken or misunderstood.
(Also, open the borders because to oppose doing so is racist. And Ann Coulter is very, very bad. And a racist.)
C'mon, Biden should have been lynched too, for what he said. However, I think Lott is not exactly an example of good behavior, and that is what I tried to argue.