Lott got caught committing thought crime which is doubleplusungood, and had to be made an unperson.
Problem is, Lott has made a habit of saying stupid things that a.) embarrassed us all and b.) required apologies be made by and for him.
It was only a matter of time before he stepped in a deeper pool of you-know-what and took us along for the ride. What followed this particularly inane stupidity was breathtaking in its scope.
During the Trent Lott Apologia Tour, he managed to a.) give away the farm and b.) implicate us all in his own guilt.
Trent Lott did it to himself. The lib media set the stage but it was Lott who went out into the spotlight...and shot himself in the foot.
All of this serves to demonstrate why he wasn't an effective Majority Leader in the first place.