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)

[ApesForEvolution]

By your own (accurate) statement and seeing the maelstrom Lott has created by his idiotic statements, how do you propose that the next 6 (very critical) months will be easier with Trent leading than without?

[ApesForEvolution]

You, as an American, can talk about this all you want and I'd support most of what you posted. If you think a leader-designate of the Senate GOP Majority can do it and be effective as a leader, then you're not living in reality.

[SerpentDove]

REPUBLICAN SENATE MAJORITY LEADER:
RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS OK
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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

Can any politician survive this?

From Associated Press (EXCERPT):

"Senate Republican leader Trent Lott tried to help Bob Jones University keep its federal tax-exempt status despite the school's policy prohibiting interracial dating two decades before his recent comments stirred a race controversy.

"Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," Lott, then a congressman from Mississippi, wrote in a 1981 friend of the court brief that unsuccessfully urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Internal Revenue Service from stripping the university's tax exemption.

IMHO, SD

[ApesForEvolution]

I'd vote for that ticket right now!

[ApesForEvolution]

That's the door that the Vacant Lott has opened and can't seem to shut.

[ApesForEvolution]

Trent Lott: Lightning, meet Rod.

[MamaLucci]

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

Agreed.
To hear the party of Bobby Byrd, Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton,
Gary Condit and Torricelli bellowing for Lott's
head over this obscure remark is SO over the top
and ridiculous that even the average dim bulb sheeple can
discern the hypocrisy of it all.

[Stallone]

Race baiting whores, perhaps someone not unlike yourself, are the only ones who need to go.

[Magoo]

I've been on FR for about two months now. Yours is the first post I've seen openly changing your stance. I have my reasons for not liking Trent Lott too. But what he said today to Sean Hannity and what Hannity said about Lott's support of Mississippi blacks and minority causes in general gave me some new insights into the man. Thanks.

[Terridan]

Good post! Did you catch the CNN Crossfire last night, nailing Jesse about his hymietown remark? I couldn't believe that. Jesse was more tongue tied than normal! Totally caught off guard, no way was he expecting that! What gets me is that the media hasn't nailed ol' maxine for her, "don't burn in your own neighborhoods, go to the white man's neighborhood!", during the riots following the Rodney the Criminal King verdict. This from a U.S. Congress woman, and no charges were filed, and no resignation was demanded. I know one day, someone will have the guts, and make a collage (sp?) of the left's diatribes!
Best wishes...

[Magoo]

Hannity and Limbaugh didn't miss it and I'm sure that more and more sensible American's are awakening to liberal media bias all the time. Look at the polls showing support for the Bush administration against Iraq, I don't think America is buying the mainstream (liberal) media's attempt to derail our governments willingness to protect our freedom at all cost. I love your post and I believe the libs are burying themselves deeper.

[memaw]

AMEN AMEN.....WE ARE FALLING RIGHT INTO THE LEFTIST HANDS, WE BETTER BE CAREFUL. I AM SO SICK OF READING & HEARING ABOUT THIS ON ALL THE TALK SHOWS & FOX NEWS. RIGHT NOW LAURA IS ON GRETA'S SHOW DEFENDING LOTT & MAKING SENSE. WAKE UP ALL YOU CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN & REALIZE WHAT THE LEFT IS TRYING TO DO TO OUR SENATE MAJORITY!!!!!MEMAW. I MEAN LAURA INGHRAM.

[Wolfstar]

Yes, tyranny, Wizzler. I was and am looking beyond merely the latest race-baiting cause du jour, and thinking of the many virulent ways the Left uses what is euphemistically called "political correctness."

• The way that no speech and thought other than Leftist dogma is permitted on most college campuses.
• The way minoirities who do not adhere to Leftist dogma are vilified even by many of their own ethnicity — Harry Belafonte's vicious attack on Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice being but the latest example.
• The way people on the Left can get away with saying or doing nearly anything, but people on the Right can't so much as twitch "wrong" without having their lives ruined.
• The way speech — yes, most especially offensive speech — is not just chilled, but virtually driven underground by exactly the kind of thing that is happening to Trent Lott now.

The First Amendment guarantees free speech not to protect people's right to say, "Gee, isn't it a nice day."

The Left's anti-First Amendment crusade has already driven Christmas manger scenes from our public places, and religious expression of any kind from our schools. The schools are force-feeding the radical homosexual agenda to children — even those whose parents' religious teachings run counter to that agenda. Our rights to private association have been and continue to be under assault (as in the Boy Scouts case and now the Augusta National case). "Hate crime" legislation seeks to criminalize thought. There are so many examples of the Left's assault on the First Amendment, that it would take a very long time to list them all. Yet, as we've seen many times and most prominently with Bill Clinton, members of the Left are virtually immune from the kind of media and Leftist group-driven approbation directed at the rest of us. It's ironic that the Left has learned to use public shame as a weapon to promote and advance many things that once were considered shameful.

If all of this is not the very definition of tyranny, I don't know what is.

[Wolfstar]

Cute. You might want to check my Post #53 for more "raving lunacy." If a vigorous defense of the First Amendment identifies one as a "lunatic," count me in.

[an amused spectator]

**grin** I was yanking wizzler's chain, to see if he would bite at having his post misrepresented in the same manner that Lott is being misrepresented. ;-)

[Wolfstar]

Oh, sorry. I misunderstood. Thanks for the clarification. Got my chain yanked, LOL!