[Aaron0617]

How is everyone's local news reporting this?

I heard this morning on my 'Newsradio' station that Trent Lott said :"That the country would've been better off when Thurmond ran in 1948 as a segregationist"

After that the reporter played a clip of a black congressional member who said: "I can't believe Trent Lott said that. He will hear about this in January"

As you know, idiot Trent Lott didn't say anything about segregation. I was wondering if anyone else noticed Trent's statement 'reworded'.

[berserker]

Lott's comments were done infront of CSPAN cameras, and he said, "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." Pretty hard to reword. (The Washington Times did not print a full quote of Lott's remarks, however, in its coverage.)