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Calling for Lott's head? First see this blatant example of Reuters' lies to fan the flames
Yahoo News photos ^ | 12/11/02 | Wolfstar

Posted on 12/11/2002 5:47:12 PM PST by 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)


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This is what tyranny looks like, folks. This is Leftist tyranny exposed. Do we have a right of free speech or not? If we do, others certainly have a right to disagree with our utterances. But what we are seeing is not disagreement, it is yet another demonstration of the Left's power to chill all speech, thought, and association it deems unacceptable. Why do we NEVER see such an outpouring of approbation when people on the Left say or do hateful things?

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. I am OFFENDED every time the Jessica Lange's of this world go overseas and trash this country. But I have to take it. Why is it only the LEFT who get to have their sense of outrage stroked?

1 posted on 12/11/2002 5:47:12 PM PST by Wolfstar
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To: Wolfstar
If I remember correctly, Thurmond's stance on segregation changed in the half-century since he ran for President. Lott et al. should highlight this change, saying that he'd forgotten that Thurmond's views today aren't the same as 50 years ago.
2 posted on 12/11/2002 5:52:49 PM PST by supercat
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To: Wolfstar
You know who the most fearful people are (after Lott) regarding the event? Why, the Senate Democrats, of course, especially such as Daschle. They are sitting in the background discussing what they can do to make it all blow over before the Republicans are forced to pick a real leader to head the majority.
3 posted on 12/11/2002 5:54:24 PM PST by stevem
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To: Wolfstar
Lott must be sacrificed on the altar of PC
4 posted on 12/11/2002 5:54:31 PM PST by joesnuffy
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To: Wolfstar
I'm with you on this one. It is strange, all the hang Lott posts on FR today. If he needs replacing it can be done on our time scheldule and not Jessie Jackson's or Al Sharpton's. Lott needs all the support he can get right now all this is is an effor to disrupt Senate for a few months. As Lott stated a few days ago. This Senate only has about 6 months to do anything useful. After that everyone starts worrying about the next election and the Senate comes to a stall. If the Demos can disrupt a few of those six months then it hurts Bush. That is what this is all about.
5 posted on 12/11/2002 5:55:48 PM PST by Flint
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To: Flint
You absolutely correct. Too bad a lot of FReepers who dislike Lott for other reasons can't see how they are playing into Dem hands on this one. After all, whose to say that if Lott is forced to resign as Majority Leader, he won't step down from his senate seat altogether? Then the Dem governor of Mississippi would get to pick a replacement.
6 posted on 12/11/2002 5:58:28 PM PST by Wolfstar
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To: Wolfstar
Morons. The Rats don't know a good deal when they have it. Lott is the best Republican the DemocRats ever had. If Lott is forced to step down, the Republicans could replace him with someone with a real set of testicles.
7 posted on 12/11/2002 5:59:57 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Wolfstar
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.

I heard a newscaster on ABC radio this morning say, "...Lott said that the United States would have been better off if it had followed the policies of then-segregationist Strom Thurmond." I believe this to have been a deliberately misleading indirect quote.
8 posted on 12/11/2002 6:00:08 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Wolfstar
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.
9 posted on 12/11/2002 6:00:33 PM PST by per loin
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To: Flint
All the Republican senators should have a group photo op supporting Lott and supporting his leadership....but they won't. They should go on the Sunday shows, not just to defend him, but to denounce the race-baiting RATs...but they won't. All the Republican senators should write a letter to the NYT, the WP and the WSJ supporting Lott and denouncing the tyranny of RAT PC and the bullies on the Congressional Black Caucus...but they won't.
10 posted on 12/11/2002 6:02:24 PM PST by clintonh8r
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To: Flint
From one of these hang-Lott threads:

Sorry to those who think I'm making too much of this. But it seems to me that the G.O.P. has zero credibility on racial matters until they get rid of this man as Senate Majority Leader.

Lott's remarks are, in fact, a direct insult to black members of the administration and the Republican Party.


You are making too much of this. The problem is that you're setting the bar by what certain virulent racists, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, say about the matter. You're doing what I heard a network news reporter do just this morning when he said "...Lott said that the United States would have been better off if it had followed the policies of then-segregationist Strom Thurmond." This is a misleading indirect quote. Considering the source, it was probably a deliberately misleading indirect quote. And then people like you, who should know better, become all exercised and begin clamoring for whatever it was that those who have abused the incident desire for their own partisan political and racist purposes. Do you really like giving yourself over to being such a tool?
11 posted on 12/11/2002 6:04:23 PM PST by aruanan
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To: Wolfstar
Maxine Waters needs to go!
12 posted on 12/11/2002 6:06:16 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: Wolfstar
This is what tyranny looks like, folks.

Oh, for heaven's sake. Bad journalism, sure. Sneaky insertion of bias, sure. But "tyranny"? "Power to chill all speech"? Come on. You've got some decent points in your post; why ruin them with excess hyperbole?

13 posted on 12/11/2002 6:06:26 PM PST by wizzler
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To: Wolfstar; Flint
BIG bump for your posts. I am disgusted by the sharks smelling blood on FR for the last few days. But even if Lott were to be replaced, those people calling for his head would never be happy with anyone who replaced him. They complain about everything. They are nothing more than disruptors, IMO. They are siding with dems to get rid of a personality they don't like. One day they rip Lott for being too sensitive and the next day they rip him for being insensitive. They will never be happy.

They fail to see that this is merely a game for the Dems to try to take the senate without a new election. No Republican senator will ever be acceptable to Jesse or Al for majority leader. The dems are really grasping at straws here and many at FR are so stupid that they are agreeing with Jesse and AL. Unreal.

14 posted on 12/11/2002 6:07:17 PM PST by GWfan
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To: Wolfstar
WEll, one thing has been made perfectly clear to any conservative/Republican ---the RATS are on the move. No more Mr. Nice Guys. We'll take out Senator Lott and next maybe---oh I know, one of the Republicans calling for him to step down. Just to make the point that we don't discriminate and to have the fun of watching more groveling by scaridy cat republicans. Boo---watch them run. Roll over publies, this is just too much fun!
15 posted on 12/11/2002 6:07:41 PM PST by mountainfolk
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To: per loin
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.

Clinton Blasts GOP 'Destruction Machine'

"They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University.
-PJ
16 posted on 12/11/2002 6:07:58 PM PST by Political Junkie Too
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To: supercat
Lott never said anything that had to do with segrefation. I'm fed up with this 24 hour media blitz on this topic; which should not BE a topic. zzzzzzzzzzzzz
17 posted on 12/11/2002 6:08:11 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Wolfstar
Try this: Blacks would have been better off if Jesse Jackson had never been born. Or how about: The State of New York would have saved millions of dollars if Al "Fat Boy with the Process" Sharpton hadn't lied about Tawana Brawley.

Or all Blacks would have been better off without Midnight Basketball designed by Bill "I'd Put Some Ice On That" Clinton, The Rapist in Chief.

No, you as an American citizen can't talk about black illiteracy, black out-of-wedlock-births, black crime statistics, Black English, Black Math, Kwanzaa, the Black criminals of the NBA,...because you see, you and I are racists.

18 posted on 12/11/2002 6:09:18 PM PST by Doc Savage
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To: Wolfstar
Too bad a lot of FReepers who dislike Lott for other reasons can't see how they are playing into Dem hands on this one

It's true, and I was one of them. Open mouth, insert foot.

My thanks to sinkspur for the two-by-four to my forehead.

19 posted on 12/11/2002 6:58:17 PM PST by Taiwan Bocks
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To: Wolfstar
This morning on NPR they reported almost exactally what this caption said verbatum, that Lott had said "that the nation would have been better off if segregationist candidate Strom Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948."
I was screamin, "He didn't say that!" Oh, well, I also never liked Lott that much, so I will be glad if he decides to step down from Senate Leadership.
20 posted on 12/11/2002 7:04:18 PM PST by KillTime
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