Trent Lott's Debacle - Now, Bush Must Act

December 14th, 2002 | Sabertooth

[kcvl]

Tax cuts...

[Nita Nuprez]

Since I'm too lazy to go back and look, I'll take your word for it! I was about to tell you that your #1 up there is about the only solution I can think of that doesn't allow to Dems to use Lott's immense stupidity to their advantage. But unfortunately, I don't see it happening unless Lott learns how to act like a man. Judging from his pattern of behavior over the years, he has to be comprimised in a significant way. He'll be doing whatever Clinton tells him to do for the rest of his political life, IMO.

[EternalVigilance]

Your #260 is one of the best posts I have ever seen on FR...and I don't say that lightly.

You obviously are speaking from a lifetime of rich experience...and have provided a wonderful window on a slice of real history.

If you aren't a novelist, you should be.

By the way, not to make light of what is a sorry piece of that history, but now we all go to the kitchen door...they just call it drive-through! ;-)

[kcvl]

Newsweek Reporter Concedes Media
Taking on Lott for Democrats

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021213.asp#1

[EternalVigilance]

You're right.

[EternalVigilance]

My solution would be for him to remain in the senate, but in a chairmanship, not as majority leader.

Mine too...it's the only way.

[EternalVigilance]

Lets show the dems how honorable people handle leadership issues.

Amen!

[Nita Nuprez]

comprimised = compromised

[EternalVigilance]

Don't worry...I think the typo police are in the donut shop! ;-)

[billhilly]

What a very kind thing to say. It is a fact that a long life is instructive if you keep your wits.

I am not a novelist, but I did write a book that I am trying to get published. I was a guest of Luis Gonzalez last Thursday night on FreeRepublic Radio where we discussed it.

I would be flattered is you would listen to it. It is archived at
rtsp://66.109.239.43/otherradio/021212-FR-LG.rm , or just go to the archives.

[orbitboy]

>You want to destroy a man because the race pimps have embarrassed you, they say Lott's a racist, and you dance to their tune.<

gr8 reply

[Nita Nuprez]

I think they take Saturdays off. ;-)

[EternalVigilance]

Thank you very much...I will!

Judging by your writing here, I have no doubt it is excellent.

Congrats on your appearance on the show...sorry if I'm outta touch on that.

[kcvl]

Time Story Fed by Ex-CNN Chief Who Agreed with Lott

The cable networks all jumped late Thursday afternoon on a Time.com-posted story about how in the early 1960s Trent Lott was a leader of the effort at his fraternity’s national convention to not allow chapters to admit blacks as members, but lost in most of the reporting of the story was how it was hardly fresh news and that former CNN President Tom Johnson, who was on the same disreputable side as Lott, fed details of what occurred to Time’s Karen Tumulty.

SNIP

Lott’s activities, which Lott told Tumulty about in the mid-1980s but she did not write about until Thursday, occurred at the same time as Senator Ernest Hollings, a Democrat then as he is now, was as Governor of South Carolina using the full power of the state to block blacks from state universities, a time frame context Tumulty’s story did not note.

SNIP

Johnson, who voted on Lott's side, now calls that vote "one of the biggest mistakes of my life." Over the years, as Johnson became a media executive, word would get back to him from time to time that Lott was repeating the tale to mutual acquaintances -- to embarrass him, Johnson believes.

SNIP

Johnson recalls of Lott back then: "He was against integration. I was against splitting the fraternity. Yet my vote had the same impact and is subject to the same interpretation -- that I also opposed integration. I am very disappointed in myself. I hope my record for the past 40 years speaks louder than that."...

[GraniteStateConservative]

Yeah, BET will just let him skip over those issues he wants us to ignore. I can see that happening. [/sarcasm]

[GraniteStateConservative]

When someone says, "I'm gonna kill him," the plainest sense is that he intends murder, though an examination of context might inform us otherwise.

Occam's razor... we should slice and dice Trent "Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever" Lott with it.

[EternalVigilance]

Over the years, as Johnson became a media executive, word would get back to him from time to time that Lott was repeating the tale to mutual acquaintances -- to embarrass him, Johnson believes.

Boy, I guess that tactic came back and bit Lott on the butt, didn't it.

If you're going to try and embarrass people about their past, it might be a good idea if you aren't guilty of the same embarrassing action.

[kcvl]

If he is telling the truth(which we can all decide for ourselves).

[GraniteStateConservative]

Yeah, and the fact that he is an exceptional white attorney from Mississippi who knows about and grew up with Jim Crow; about desegregation of Ole Miss; about the deaths of civil rights workers like Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner in Neshoba County (MS); worked for a white supremacist congressman; etc. , it's unlikely he was ignorant of what he was saying and what he was supporting by saying what he said.

There are many here in serious denial.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah, BET will just let him skip over those issues he wants us to ignore. I can see that happening. [/sarcasm]

LOL..indeed.

It's stacking up to be one of the most painful hours of television ever aired.

Can we hope that by then Lott won't be ML, and BET will lose interest in interviewing a mere committee chairman? ;-)