Calling for Lott's head? First see this blatant example of Reuters' lies to fan the flames

Yahoo News photos ^ | 12/11/02 | Wolfstar

[Wolfstar]

Look at the photo and read the caption. Do you notice Reuters' sly way of painting all Republicans with a broad brush. This photo was taken at the White House, not at the event where Sen. Lott made the cause-celebre statement. Also, notice how the caption slyly alters Lott's remarks to make it seem that he openly and literally said the nation would be better off if a segregationist had won the presidency in 1948.

CAPTION: President George W. Bush is accompanied by his father former President George H. W. Bush, Sen. Trent Lott and Thurmond's daughter Julie Thurmond Whitmer during Sen. Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party at the White House, December 6, 2002. Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle demanded 'a fuller explanation and apology' from Lott on Dec. 11 for saying, during a birthday event for Thurmond on Capitol Hill, that the nation would have been better off if segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

[hosepipe]

Lott needs to hire Coulter and Keyes to to write responses to these animal house gaffs. Those two give the liberals the heeby jeebies just by entering a room... And if they open their mouths all MIC's go OFF... these two are dangerous to liberal tactics. Wonder way the pubbies don't think of these things...

by the WAY...
COULTER AND KEYES FOR PRESIDENT(S)..IN ANY ORDER

[yellowroses]

I agree with you 100% Lott may not be wonderful, but he's better than Daschel!!! If the RATS want something, I say do the exact opposite. They say, write and report their way of thinking. We poor slobs who work for a living, have the constitutional right to say what WE think, including individuals who work "for the people."

[yellowroses]

Ditto.

[Pining_4_TX]

I agree. If the left does get his head, they'll find it to be completely empty. How incredibly dumb must he be to make such a statement? The guy must be a total dolt.

[SerpentDove]

REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER:
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS OK
----------
Has Party Backing

I hope everybody likes that soundbite. Because we can "explain" till we're blue in the face, but if we keep defending Lott, we're gonna be hearing it for a lonnnnnnnnnng time.

I say it's not worth losing the whole Republican agenda over him, no matter what other high-minded motives we might have.

Lott expresses regret for remarks; court filing from 1981 surfaces

[gabby hayes]

Lott's words are not a PC matter any more than they are about "a poor choice of words." There are rights and wrongs in the world, as conservatives correctly assert, and Lott is wrong, as well as immensely hurtful to our party.

[ampat]

Quite right. And don't forget, he was a segregationist when he was a democrat. When he changed his view, he became a Republican (1964).

[OldFriend]

These are the same freepers who bought into the notion that the lamestream media has been tamed by FNC........hah, the media has yanked our chain and we went along willngly. What a pity!

[pawdoggie]

What the left does best is demonize an individual. Conservatives fall for it everytime, go along with it, and then wonder why the liberals keep coming back to beat them.

Amen. Between now and '04 the Demoncrats will be scouring every statement (written and spoken) of every National Republican/Conservative office-holder and leader, looking for any phrase, slip of the tongue (Freudian or otherwise)or ambiguity that can remotely be twisted into "racism, sexism, homophobia" or simply "insensitivity" to the plight of the handicapped, poor, Senior Citizens, etc. And Big Media, which is beginning to feel guilty about not letting the Left "get it message out" will provide them the platform, and audio-visual support. To paraphrase Ben Franklin, the Republicans need to hang together, or they will all hang separately.

[OldFriend]

Thanks for being big enough to admit that there's been an over-reaction by some freepers.

[OldFriend]

BRIT HUME used those exact words tonite.......segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond.

I have lost ALL respect for Brit.

[foreverfree]

Could Lott have been referring to this? A poster on another board that I often visit and sometimes post on suggests so.

foreverfree

P.S. On this link, click on "Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond", then scroll down to the first post by "David Phipps". (I assure you I am not him!) Let me know if Mr. "Phipps"' theory has been posted on FR before.

[republicman]

I know there are many on the Right who do not like Lott for a variety of reasons. But letting the Left take one more Republican scalp when they have let everyone else skate: from Clinton, to Torricelli, to Alec Baldwin, to Jesse Jackson, to Louis Farrakan, and the whole motley crew of Leftists who have spouted or done hateful things.

Well said--

I for one am sick of it. The left's chief weapon is constructing double standards allowing their side to do whatever they want, lie, cheat, demogogue, racebait, spew hate, slime and slander, but our side can't even get a parking ticket.

I don't care if a Lott is a bad leader I am sick of feeding PC lynch mobs and double standards. Its up to US to decide oif he should go, its not for Maxine the ugly racebating witch and her SEGREGATED caucus of hate to decide. Newt, Bork, Livingston, Will their hunger be abated if we give them one more? Who the F*^% would be dumb enough to believe that?

[an amused spectator]

Why did you call Wolfstar a bad writer and a raving lunatic?

[liberty or death]

Disrimination is fine so long as your black.Its time to fight back and fight back hard on this issue.Either the rules are the same for both sides or there are no rules!!! All the Race Baiters can Kiss My A$$ !!!

[Jeff Chandler]

This will all be forgotten a month or two from now when we invade Iraq:

2003 Phases of the Moon

Universal Time

      NEW MOON    FIRST QUARTER        FULL MOON     LAST QUARTER

       d  h  m          d  h  m          d  h  m          d  h  m

JAN.   2 20 23   JAN.  10 13 15   JAN.  18 10 48   JAN.  25  8 33
FEB.   1 10 48   FEB.   9 11 11   FEB.  16 23 51   FEB.  23 16 46

[republicman]

REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS OK ---------- Has Party Backing

Response--the democratic party knows full well Lott is no racistor segregationist, but because they have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO OFFER that the public is interested in, they have to engage in race baiting and smear politics.

All the while throwing stones all through their glass houses--ignoring Byrd the klansman, ignoring Al Gore's dad the segregationist, ignoring Al Sharpton's helping burn and kill whites at Freddy's and lead the crown heights riots exhorting blacks to kill Jews. Jesse Jackson's spitting on white people's food and Hymie town. Carl Levins praise of Strom Thurmond, Clinton's calling two rabid segregationists his greatest mentors. And so much more....

This is a golden opportunity to bury the libs even lower. Sadly it is being missed.

Newt, Livingston, Bork, a slew of judges, how many more scalps are we going to offer up to the libs before they are appeased?

[kAcknor]

Lott must be sacrificed on the altar of PC

kAcknor Sez:

Absolutely not! Lott should be "sacrificed" because of the multiple spinal-spheroidalectomys that had failed to give him anything resembling a backbone and noticeable male genitalia. I thought that maybe the last one had finally taken when I heard he had called for troops on the borders during an O'Reily interview, but alas, nothing came of it.

Rush had a caller today that made sense. The 'rats may not wish him totally gone, just wounded badly. They know they can "roll" him on just about any issue so why trade that for somebody who may be more effective? Most of us know that we would be better off with a stronger Senate Leader; it's the "why" of the matter that sticks. I don't like the reason at all. But it's a case of life giving us lemons, and dam*it, I'd rather have lemon-aid.

"yIQeqQo' neH, DoS yIqIp!" (Don't just aim, hit the target!)

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