[jwalsh07]

Paul Simon, a liberal democrat, was at the meeting. He says Lott is being railroaded. There was nothing evil in his remarks. He was joking.

Which means that you and every other "conservative" trying to hang Lott because of this have helped hang Trent based on false evidence of bigotry. You feeling good about that?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Why does Lott think it's funny to joke about electing a segregationist?

[GraniteStateConservative]

In a 1997 interview with Time magazine, Lott said he once favored segregation as a college student watching armed U.S. marshals help a black student gain entry to a Mississippi university.

"Yes, you could say that I favored segregation then. I don't now," Lott was quoted as saying. "The main thing was, I felt the federal government had no business sending in troops to tell the state what to do."