Who says the liberal media died. They're at it again and in full-court press until election day 2004.
Posted on 12/09/2002 9:47:48 AM PST by ewing
"...New York's Rev. Al Sharpton called Jews "diamond merchants," and spoke of "white interlopers" who, he felt, did not belong in the minority community. Again, no problem. Indeed, presidential contenders Al Gore and Bill Bradley, during the Harlem presidential debate, showered praise on Sharpton, noting how much the reverend had "grown." Never mind that Sharpton falsely accused former Dutchess County, N.Y., Assistant State Attorney General Steven Pagones of raping Tawana Brawley. Pagones, along with his daughter, received death threats following Sharpton's accusation. When Pagones claimed innocence, Sharpton challenged Pagones to sue for defamation. Pagones did, and won. Sharpton refuses to pay one dime, apparently transferring his assets into his wife's name. As for an apology, fuggedaboudit..."
Who says the liberal media died. They're at it again and in full-court press until election day 2004.
Those were my thoughts, exactly. Sharpton may rue the day he did this....
OK .. does that mean the Rev Al is gonna Boycott the RNC???
Ok .. so what's new??
You can bet these Hillary comments will be mentioned when she runs
I suspect that's why the Senate RATs are staying out of this one.
What the heck would they boycott anyway?
Pom poms and saddle shoes.
For reasons which I do not understand, a lot of people on this site seem to care. I keep pointing out to them that using this issue to get rid of Lott would just subject all the rest of us to PC speech codes, but most of them don't even respond.
Hopefully inhaling air for a very long time :-)
Hopefully inhaling air for a very long time :-)
I just did a google search on Al's current presidential status (e.g. Pres of Nat'l Action Network- & founder)... results = error, no longer in service, domain for sale, $29.95 order fee to get into the "National press Club", etc, blah, blah, blah.
Never mind about Byrd, and all the dimocrap racial slurs... especially on white heterosexual males {rolling eyes.) Dullton needs to sit down and shut up... along with Jessssssssssssie ... they who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
As much as I want to see Lott step aside, I would NEVER join the likes of Dullton leading the move.
http://www.c-span.org/politics/
The link to the Javascript is at about the center of the C-SPAN page. I'll transcribe the remarks by Lott, preceding his "all these problems" statement. There is no printed transcript on the Internet that I can find, at least not yet.
Feel free to click on the link above, download the 1-hour recording and follow along with me. If you're following along with me, fast-forward to exactly halfway through the recording. That is where Lott's speech starts.
Dole introduced Lott by mentioning that when Strom Thurmond was landing by glider in Normandy on June 6, 1944 Trent Lott was only three years old. http://www.c-span.org/politics/
Verbatim transcript of the beginning of Trent Lott's speech:
Well thank you, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you my good friend and my predecessor, my hero, Bob Dole, for that introduction, that very brief introduction I might add [Laughter] But for Senator Strom Thurmond's family and friends and admirers all, it's a great pleasure for me to be here with you today, and I know that you're enjoying every minute of this. And I knew that the previous remarks would be just as they were. I mean, after all, Bob Dole received the Republican nomination and dang near was elected President of the United States telling Strom Thurmond jokes. [Laughter] If he'd just gotten himself some new material there toward the end he would have done it. [Laughter] I want to say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for President we voted for him. [Laughter] We're proud of it. [More laughter] And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.
HE WAS JOKING, PEOPLE.
The quotation that has been bandied about as so-called "proof" of Lott's "racism" was clearly told for laughs. It was at the beginning of the speech, after Dole told a few Strom Thurmond jokes. Then Lott stood up and said that in 1996, Dole was nominated for President "and dang near was elected President of the United States telling Strom Thurmond jokes."
Then came the quotation that everyone is bleating about, and it got a few laughs, exactly as Lott had clearly intended. Then came more jokes, including one about how "the Capitol froze over" inserted in place of "hell freezes over," and a reference to Dole's Pepsi commercial with Britney Spears.
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