You're living proof here at FR.
"Play the clip of Lott. Show pictures of lynchings. Show Lott shaking hands with the Republican candidate in the race. Repeat."
Stop wallowing in unfounded fear, will ya?
Do you assume the GOP and Dubya don't have a Robert Byrd or Fritz Hollins OR Algore's daddy to model as their poster-child of racism? Have you noted a relatively tempered Democratic reaction? THEY have far more to lose in the event actual racism is cited and documented and made issue of by the GOP.
"Knowing what the word means (as would any reasonably educated English-speaker) has nothing to do with Webster's dictionary."
Haven't you embarrassed yourself, Shakespeare?
Unfounded? Are you an idiot?
Dubya had nothing to do with the murder of James Byrd. They used it anyway. Do you think they won't use it when they've got Lott dead to rights?
Do you assume the GOP and Dubya don't have a Robert Byrd or Fritz Hollins OR Algore's daddy to model as their poster-child of racism?
Did he when they ran the Byrd ad? What makes you think he'll do it now that they've got something?
Haven't you embarrassed yourself, Shakespeare?
I'm supposed to be embarassed for knowing the meaning of a common word?
And I suppose you're proud of the fact that you showed off your ignorance of ordinary English.
This is all making sense now. Say hi to Lurlene in the next double-wide over, will ya?