LOTT SAID IT BEFORE (Drudge Siren)

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[walrus954]

After a fiery speech by Thurmond at a Mississippi campaign rally for Ronald Reagan in November 1980, Lott, then a congressman, told a crowd in Jackson: "You know, if we had elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we are today."

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[BuddhaBoy]

I'm not calling Lott a racist. I dont think he is one either.

I think he has shown time and time again, that he is an idiot. For that reason I want them to elect someone else as Leader. He is Tom Daschle's useful idiot, and that is why Daschle wants him around.

[Endeavor]

"I hereby nominate BILL FRIST....do I have a second ?"

Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth...

[aristeides]

I agree that the context makes it virtually certain Lott was talking about Thurmond.

But were you challenging my ability to speak English, or my knowledge of the historical context? I could have sworn you were talking about the former. I think my misreading was natural, because I think it was the more natural reading of the language. I was wrong, but because of the context.

Again, let me ask, do you deny that Drudge's English is ambiguous? Are you able to speak English? I have already asked you these questions once, and you did not choose to answer them.

[Mo1]

But a spineless idiot, who has not sufficiently explained himself, should not be the leader of the Senate IMO

He did .. he also apologized for offending any one .. problem is no matter what he says .. some are just not going to accept it

You really think Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi are going to listen??

NO .. they see this as a step closer to regaining power ..

Because if they were REALLY upset and soooooooooo concern .. they'd have a nice little talk with Clinton ... or Bobby Bryd for his white n comment

[sinkspur]

Don't you think you're over-dramatizing just a bit?

Actually, I think you and your cohorts calling for Lott to step down are.

If you think Lott, humiliated by being forced to step down as Majority Leader by essentially admitting he's a racist, will want to continue to serve as a Senator, I'd ask you:

Would you continue to serve?

[Notwithstanding]

Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, the Democrat elected posthumously in 2000 A.D. to the Senate, whose seat has been temporarily filled by Democrat senatrix Jean Carnahan.

Source: Washington Post

[kcvl]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Franklin Roosevelt, the long time hero and standard bearer of the Democrat Party, headed up and implemented one of the most horrible racist policies of the 20th Century – the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II. Roosevelt unilaterally and knowingly enacted Japanese Internment through the use of presidential Executive Orders 9066 and 9102 during the early years of the war. These orders single-handedly led to the imprisonment of an estimated 120,000 law abiding Americans of Japanese ancestry, the overwhelming majority of them natural born second and third generation American citizens. Countless innocents lost their property, fortunes, and, in the case of an unfortunate few, even their lives as a result of Roosevelt's internment camps, camps that have been accurately described as America's concentration camps. Perhaps most telling about the racist nature of Roosevelt's order was his clearly expressed intention to apply it almost entirely to Japanese Americans, even though America was also at war with Germany and Italy. In 1943, Roosevelt wrote regarding concerns of German and Italian Americans that they t0o would share in the fate of the interned Japanese Americans, noting that "no collective evacuation of German and Italian aliens is contemplated at this time." Despite this assertion, Roosevelt did exhibit his personal fears about Italian and German Americans, and in his typical racist form he used an ethnic stereotype to make his point. Expressing about his position on German and Italian Americans during World War II, Roosevelt stated “I don’t care so much about the Italians, they are a lot of opera singers, but the Germans are different. They may be dangerous.”

Roosevelt also appointed two notorious segregationists to the United States Supreme Court. Roosevelt appointed South Carolina segregationist Democrat Jimmy Byrnes to the court. Roosevelt later made Byrnes a top advisor, where the segregationist earned the nickname “assistant president.” Byrnes was also Roosevelt’s second choice behind Harry Truman for the VP nod in his 1944 reelection bid. Roosevelt also appointed segregationist Democrat Senator Hugo Black of Alabama to the court. Black was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, a well known hate group.

[plain talk]

will allow him to stay as a measly Senator from Mississippi

They have no power of his seat. He's an elected Senator from the State of Mississippi. This may be an ignorant question but when do they vote on majority leader for the next Congress or have they already voted? Seems the simple way would be for the Republican Senators to run Nickles against him and Lott loses. Unless its too late for that.

[Poohbah]

But were you challenging my ability to speak English, or my knowledge of the historical context? I could have sworn you were talking about the former. I think my misreading was natural, because I think it was the more natural reading of the language.

Good grief, man, the only way you can claim that is if you're a recent graduate of the public school system.

I read it once and realized that Mr. Lott was speaking of Mr. Thurmond.

[OldFriend]

Much as it was necessary for Ford to pardon Richard Nixon, Lott was right to curtail the impeachment hearing. The country was being torn to shreds, and absolutely nothing would have been accomplished. EVERYONE knows all there is to know about the rapist pig who was our commander in chief but the media made sure that the spin was always in his favor.

Once again, I see sheeple allowing themselves to be manipulated by the media. They can kiss off for all I care, Lott should stay and no media frenzy is going to make me change my mind.

[mystery-ak]

Mississippi has a RAT Gov....I can't remember his name..sorry.

[habs4ever]

Grab some smelling salts, you have the vapours over nadda.Don't you love just being played like a cheap harmonica by the Dems? You are a real wind up toy.

[Poohbah]

He did .. he also apologized for offending any one ..

That's not an apology. It's the celebrity "F*** YOU!" non-apology.

An apology is NOT "I'm sorry if I offended anyone."

An apology would be "It was a wrong thing to say, and I'm sorry."

[Bommer]

YES! The wimp is toast! Time for REAL leadership! bye bye Lott!

[RobbyS]

Second for Frist.

[sinkspur]

I think he has shown time and time again, that he is an idiot. For that reason I want them to elect someone else as Leader.

This particular episode is entirely about Lott as a racist.

YOU think he's an idiot because you're nursing grudges from impeachment.

You think he's an idiot; you are essentially calling 50 other GOP Senators idiots because they elected him to be their leader!

I'll take their judgment over yours, no matter how much you fancy your judgment.

[BuddhaBoy]

So? The man disintegrated after bouncing off the state of Missouri, so his actions are not an issue here.

"Democrats do it too" - Is that really all that the Republican Party wants to say about this?

[Travis McGee]

Lott has got to go.

Just imagine the political ads: Trent Lott, standing close to any Republican running for office.

Ominous Darth Vader music background.

Voice of Trent Lott:"Hey, if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948, we wouldn't have had all these 'problems' over all these years."

Video, black and white, police dogs biting blacks in Selma, fire hoses knocking down black children, crosses burning at Klan rallies.

Trent Lott's "we wouldn't have had all these problems" echoing over and over.

*************************************

That add will get more blacks to the polls to vote 'rat than any time before in history.

Lott has got to go, the ad made from this snafu will be a WIPEOUT.

[kcvl]

Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC: Hollings is liberal Democrat Senator from South Carolina who is also notorious for his use of racial slurs. Hollings has reportedly used the slur "wetbacks" to derogatorily refer to Hispanics and "darkies" to derogatorily refer to blacks. He also once disparagingly referred to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition as the "Blackbow Coalition," and called former Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio "the Senator from B'nai B'rith." Hollings gained international criticism for his remarks about the African Delegation to the 1993 Geneva GATT conference, where he crudely remarked "you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."

Rev. Jesse Jackson: Jackson was the featured prime time speaker at the 2000 Democrat Convention. Jackson has a history of using anti-Semitic slurs and derogatorily calling New York City “Hymietown.” Jackson, a prominent self proclaimed "civil rights leader," is himself guilty of the same bigotry he dishonestly purports to oppose.

Dan Rather: Rather, the well known television anchor for CBS, is also a liberal Democrat who has spoken at fundraisers for the Democrat party in the past. The notoriously left wing reporter appeared on the Don Imus radio show on July 19, 2001 where he was interviewed about his long term refusal to cover the Gary Condit (D-CA) scandal involving an affair with a missing intern despite the scandal's national prominence. Rather noted on the air that CBS had basically forced him to cover the story that was on every other network and on the front page of all the major newspapers, all this after Rather avoided it for months. Rather stated on the air, refering to CBS, that "they got the Buckwheats" and made him cover the Condit scandal. The term "Buckwheat" is considered an offensive racial stereotype that stems from an easily frightened black character named "Buckwheat" on the Little Rascals comedies. It is widely regarded as a racial epithet and has long been condemned as an offensive stereotype by several civil rights organizations. In several past incidents (see here and here) the use of the epithet "Buckwheat" has recieved condemnation by the NAACP, Al Sharpton and other left wing organizations. These left wing organizations and personalities have demanded that other media personalities be fired over using the epithet, and even staged a protest at a school over the mere allegation that the racist stereotype had been used by a teacher. Yet these same liberal groups have, to date, remained completely silent now that one of their own, Dan Rather, is guilty of using the same offensive racial stereotype they have condemned elsewhere on a national radio show. It's just more proof of how the left wingers who cry the loudest with accusations of racism against others turn a blind eye when somebody of their own left wing ideology is the undeniable culprit of a blatantly racist act or statement!

Cragg Hines: Hines is one of the most rabidly partisan DC based Democrat editorial columnists to work for a major newspaper, and he makes no attempts to hide it. To Hines, pro-lifers are "neanderthals," as is often the case with those who differ in opinion with him. Ironically, Hines, a collumnist who regularly touts himself as an enlightened progressive, is also known for racial remarks and religious intolerance. He attacked Senator Jesse Helms in an August 26, 2001 editorial with not only the usual liberal name calling, but also with a racial epithet. Hines used the racial slur "cracker" to attack Helms. He used the epithet not only within the article's text, but he even included it in the piece's title. In a sense of heavy irony, Hines' article accused Helms of bigotry for, among other things, opposing liberal policies like affirmative action. He didn't seem to object to himself for his own bigotted language in the same article. Hines has also drawn heavy criticism from Catholics including a letter to the editor from the former President of the U.S. Catholic Bishop's Conference for his seemingly agenda-driven criticisms of Catholicism and its religious leaders, often based on little or no historical evidence, which he has expressed in numerous editorial columns.

Rev. Al Sharpton: Sharpton, a perrenial Democrat candidate and one of the rumored candidates for the Democrat's 2004 presidential nomination, has a notorious racist past. Sharpton was a central figure who fanned the 1991 Crown Heights race riot, where a mob shouting anti-semetic slurs murdered an innocent Jewish man. Sharpton also incited a 1995 protest of a Jewish owned store in Harlem where protesters used several anti-semetic slurs. During the protests, a Sharpton lieutenant called the store's owner a "bloodsucker" and declared an intent to "loot the Jews." A member of the protest mob later set fire to the store, resulting in the death of seven (source).

Representative Dick Gephardt, D-MO: Gephardt, the current Democrat Minority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, gave several speeches to a St. Louis area hate group during his early years as a representative. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Gephardt spoke to the Metro South Citizens Council, a now defunct white supremacist organization. Newsmax.com further reported that Gephardt had openly asked the group for an endorsement of his candidacy during one of his many visits with the organization. Gephardt has long avoided questions about his past affiliation with this group.

Andrew Cuomo: Cuomo, Bill Clinton's former Housing Secretary and a prominent Democrat political player in New York, was tape recorded using racially inflamatory rhetoric to build opposition to a potential Democrat primary opponent while speaking to a Democrat group. Cuomo stated that voting for his rival for the New York Democrat gubernatorial nomination Carl McCall, who is black, would create a "racial contract" between Black and Hispanic Democrats "and that can't happen." Upon initial reports, Cuomo denied the statement but later a tape recording surfaced. (source).

Lee P. Brown: Brown, Bill Clinton's former drug czar and Democrat mayor of Houston, engaged in racist campaigning designed to suppress Hispanic voter turnout during his 2001 reelection bid. Brown faced challenger Orlando Sanchez, a Hispanic Republican who drew heavy support from the Hispanic community during the general election. Two weeks prior to the runoff, Brown's campaign printed racist signs designed to intimidate Hispanic voters. The signs featured a photograph of Sanchez and the words "Anti-Hispanic." The signs drew harsh criticism from Hispanic leaders as their message was designed to intimidate and confuse Hispanic voters. Around the same time the signs were being used, Brown supporter and city councilman Carol Alvarado made a series of racially charged attacks on Sanchez, implying a desire to see the supression of Hispanic voter turnout in the runoff. Brown staffers also went on record claiming that Sanchez was not a true Hispanic. The racist anti-Hispanic undertones of Brown's reelection bid were so great that liberal Democrat city councilman John Castillo, himself Hispanic, retracted his endorsement of Brown in disgust and became a Sanchez supporter in the final week of the campaign. Following the harsh condemnation of the racist signs and tactics, Brown purported that his campaign was removing them even though many still lingered around Houston up until the election. When election day came along, Brown placed more of the racist signs at polling places, despite his claim to have stopped using them. The large campaign billboard style election day signs featured, in Spanish, the word "Danger!" on them followed by Sanchez's name with a large red circle and slash through it. The signs identified the Brown campaign as their owner on the bottom. Brown's racially charged reelection effort barely squeeked by Sanchez on election day, winning 51% to 49% following a series of racially motivated advertisements in which the Brown campaign appealed to the fear of black voters by invoking images of the gruesome lynching death of James Byrd, Jr. and by attempting to pit them against Hispanics. While Brown had the audacity to declare himself a mayor for all people and all ethnicities at his victory party, many in Houston fear the racial wounds inflicted by his campaign will take years to heal.

Mary Frances Berry: Berry is the Democrat chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR). She purports herself to be an "independent" in her political affiliation in order to hold her job on the civil rights commission where partisan membership may not exceed 4 for either party, but is in fact a dedicated liberal Democrat who openly supported Al Gore for president and has given a total of $20,000 in personal contributions to the Democrat Party, Al Gore for President, and other Democrat candidates over the last decade. Berry is an open racist who is affiliated with the far-left Pacifica radio network, a group with ties to black nationalist causes. Berry once stated "Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them," indicating that she believes the USCCR should only look out for civil rights violations against persons of certain select skin colors.

[BuddhaBoy]

You're still here? I feel a draft......