Senator Lott: Black Entertainment Network Interview-TONIGHT

Black Entertainment Network.Com ^ | 12/16/02 | bet.com

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TONIGHT

Ed Gordon goes one-on-one with Trent Lott, tonight at 8 p.m. (ET). Then, a panel of African-American journalists react to the interview at 8:30 p.m. (ET)

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Lott said (in a fibbing way) he would demounce this white supremicist group.The man interviewing him called them WHITE SUPREMICISTS and LOTT nodded his head yes like and claimed he would try to denounce them.

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Political Correctness has made it a sin to disagree with affirmative action. Screw affirmative action and the african american term- unless everyone from now on refers to ME as an IRISH AMERICAN.

[Missouri]

I'm assuming he said this on BET. I have BET blocked on my cable. This man will pander shamelessly. He needs to go.

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Yes he said this on BET.

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Sen. Trent Lott Talks to Black America

Posted Dec. 16, 2002 -- In an interview on BET, Sen. Trent Lott apologized again for his comments and asked for a chance to make amends as Senate majority leader.

Weathering a hailstorm of questions from BET's Ed Gordon, Lott promised to make up for his mistake through an "equal opportunity" agenda that would benefit African Americans and other minorities. 

Although Lott wasn't specific about his legislative plans, members of his staff said that he is already talking with other Congressional leaders about a task force for reconciliation to "help bring America together along racial lines."  

To hear more from Sen. Trent Lott, tune in tonight at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) and 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT) And don't forget to come back to BET.com and tell us what you thought of the interview.

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BET message brds. What did you think of Trent Lott's Interview

[VRWC_minion]

The man is a self claimed man of the cloth that claims non profit and spends the money living lavishly on a woman he got pregnant. and Lott is fighting for his political life because he mispoke.

I rest my case. Lott is and idiot and Jackson is far smarter than Lott ever hoped to be.

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There is no case to rest. The leftists have no coth, class or morals, when they do and say idiotic things..it is time to move on and no one cares as this is expected of them. (most especially Jesse Jackson)

So you are saying it is smarter to be corruptly bad and get away with it?

[AmishDude]

I will give neither aid nor comfort nor even the faintest of praise to such an odious group as the Council of Conservative Citizens. They are unable to gather any unique "information on people, events and issues" other than what they make up out of whole cloth.

[VRWC_minion]

So you are saying it is smarter to be corruptly bad and get away with it?

Not exactly. Jesus says it best

Matthew 10
   
¹⁶   Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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Even though Jackson is a wolf it doesn't mean Lott doesn't have the brains of a sheep.

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But Lott was on before MNF..it will be interesting to see what kind of ratings it gets.

[Missouri]

>Gephardt was tied to them (spoke in front of them/wrote something for their newsletter), if I recall correctly.<

I wonder where this information came from. Did you read it in thier newspaper ?

[AmishDude]

I saw it in a story about Lott. They mentioned Lott and Gephardt being tied to them. I'll make a quick search.

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Bryd (sic) is fourth in line to the presidencey (sic)!!!!!!!! Why is no one upset about this??

I am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AmishDude]

This is from NewsMax:

House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt spoke before a prominent St. Louis white-rights organization during his first run for Congress and attended two of the group's picnics after his election, says Gordon Baum, head of the Council of Conservative Citizens.

Interviewed Monday by NewsMax.com, Baum explained that Gephardt had come to a meeting of the Metro South Citizens Council to debate his primary-election opponent.

. . . "And Dick Gephardt addressed the group and asked them openly for their endorsement." . . .

Baum told NewsMax.com that the Metro South Citizens Council was a group concerned primarily with "states' rights" and forced busing. When it disbanded, many of the members joined his Council of Conservative Citizens, which, Baum says, addresses broader interests like taxes, gun control, and general moral decay. . . .

In 1988 then-presidential candidate Gephardt denounced the organization, the Post-Dispatch reported last week, noting that he couldn't recall his own visit to the Metro South Citizens Council.

And from a left-wing source:

Back in the early '80s, Gephardt dropped by at least one meeting of the group, which was organized to oppose busing and has been described as a precursor to the Council of Conservative Citizens. When the local group disbanded, many of its members joined the CCC. During his 1988 presidential campaign, Gephardt couldn't recall his visit but said he didn't support any group "that expresses any kind of racial motives or sentiments." He said he wasn't aware of Metro South's positions.

"It wasn't the CCC initially," said Gephardt spokeswoman Laura Nichols. "When it became apparent to Gephardt that they were the CCC, he denounced them."

[Missouri]

So it was the CofCC told Newsmax. Fair enough and thank you. Busing was a disaster in the St. Louis area and its legecy lives on.

[AmishDude]

Busing was a disaster in the St. Louis area and its legecy lives on.

No argument there. I believe the reason it lingered in St. Louis after the rest of the country abandoned it was because of a single judge who also made disastrous decisions about school funding as well, IIRC.

[Missouri]

>a single judge who also made disastrous decisions about school funding as well,<


In the 1970's, a Federal Judge combined three school districts in North St. Louis County and raised property taxes to pay for it. I was a student at one of those districts at the time.
Having Ted Kennedy grill John Ashcroft at his confirmation hearing over busing really #issed me off but reminded me of how heavy-handed liberal Federal Judges are. Kennedys busing mess in Boston was much worst but yet he isn't fazed by it. I wonder why ?

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I doubt it. Or you would be typing so fast there would be typos. :-)

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