Sean Hannity is gonna hang himself with this Lott issue.

Sean Hannity's Website ^

[VaBthang4]

Hannity.com Frontpage:

"Saying he used "a poor choice of words," Trent Lott spoke with Sean on the newsmakers phoneline at length on December 11th in an exclusive interview. This follows a firestorm of criticism by Liberals and Conservatives alike in reaction to comments made by Lott at Sen Strom Thurman's 100th birthday party."

[Bluntpoint]

Look up the Dixiecrat platform. They were upset that the regular democratic party was "anti-lynching."

[VaBthang4]

The issue is that he shouldnt have said it in an open forum...and he did.

He's an idiot that needs to go.

[Alberta's Child]

By the time he is done he would be lauding Kennedy's backstroke.

I don't care if he lauds Kennedy's backside. As long as he does it in jail.

[per loin]

In my mind there is only one group's voice that matters on this issue and that is the voice of black conservatives. Let them decide Lott's fate.

Right. White folks can't think for themselves, and certainly ought have no part in deciding who runs the Senate.

[VaBthang4]

Sean seems to be ill-prepared when confronting Liberals [He doesnt think through the debate and he doesnt slam the door on anyone] and he get's off into the company-line way too much.

[aruanan]

None of this would be happening if Lott hadnt said what he said.

What you do not appear to realize is that Lott's exact words, even without the context, had nothing at all of racist content or overtones. In fact, since a person's words have to be judged in light of similar, more explicit, things he has said on the same subject, Lott's words at Thurmond's 100th birthday party in no way could be construed as racist. Back in the 80's he said a similar thing and then he elucidated his comment by enumerating various ways things would have been different and why. None of them had any hint of racism. The current brouhaha is over a statement that is so general and non-specific that it serves excellently as a verbal Rorschach. The unimaginative see nothing but the equivalent of an inkblot. The disturbed racial opportunists, such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, both denizens of psychologically murky waters, who are determined to create a meaning, do so, attribute it to him, and then use that to further their own political ends.

I don't like Trent Lott. I think his handling of the Senate during the trial phase of impeachment was absolutely and completely despicable. I think his offering to share power with Daschle and the Democrats was moronic. But the sheer amount of non-thinking, knee-jerk reactionism on this issue (meaning the lack of actual analysis of what was really said) among people who should know better (ie., Republicans) is breathtaking. That so many of them are so ready to resort to the same type of expediency that characterizes moral relativist, liberal Democrats shows how degenerate the American intellect has become.

Bush took part in this same specious mindset by condemning the remarks, thus giving credence to the completely out of touch with reality spin placed on them by those who deliberately used this for their own partisan aims. And Lott was just as foolish as Bush for apologizing. This is Democrat propoganda pure and simple. They were desperate to find anything as a rallying point after their disappointing election show (remember them talking about a 50 seat gain in the House?). You don't fight it by acquiescing to it. You show it for the carbuncle it is and then lance it.

[dfwgator]

I think it is the fact that it is a bunch of hypocrite Dims who are doing the bashing of Lott. It is like when you have a relative, who you know is a bum, but if someone outside of the family starts degrading him, you will defend the relative.

It's like the scene in Animal House, "they can't do that to our pledges, only WE can do that to our pledges."

[krodriguesdc]

this will pass - but it won't be forgotten!

perhaps the good people of this great country are ready to make a stand...

[Jorge]

The left has no standards. If everything is relative, there can be no standards. Nothing can be better or worse than any other thing. Multiculturalism is a prime example of this. It you have standards, you introduce judgement. For liberals being judgemental is a cardinal sin.

So, it is not really that there is a different standard, it is that Republicans have a standard and there is nothing wrong with that.

Well said.
But I would add that while liberals seemingly have no "standards" and are hypocrites to those they claim to have.......the fact remains that in reality there are standards of right and wrong.

And these standards apply to life whether we like it or not.

For this reason, while your comparison above is accurate, I beleieve it is something that puts Republicans on more solid ground than Democrats.

When I saw Pelosi and Dem leaders trying to stir up this controversy, they looked like hysterical and frantic hypocrites. They are all over the map.

[GoMonster]

maybe all the senators that gave strom thrumond a round of applause at the close of senate were all cheering for segregation!!!! This whole thing is ridiculous!!!!!!!

[Alberta's Child]

I don't give a sh!t about what the Dixiecrat plpatform was in 1948. The day Marc Racicot meets with Al Sharpton is the day I start writing in Louis Farrakhan's name every time I vote. To have the Republican Party cave in on Trent Lott while agreeing to meet with a fat scumbag like Al Sharpton is a f#cking disgrace.

[alnick]

It's not about political correctness. Thurmond wanted to keep the right to lynch blacks. Opposing that has nothing to do with political correctness.

In today's world, political correctness is a huge problem. The kind of hatred that the left accuses the right of today was actually true back in 1948. It's not political correctness that causes people to be offended by a powerful politician intimating that we would have been better off had we not abolished the kind of bigotry that existed back then.

[VaBthang4]

Lott said something that no halfway thinking Conservative who in anyway comprehends the media's zeal [and record] for completely twisting someone's remarks would have said. Now if you fall in the "I would've said it" crowd then that is on you.

A. Lott is an idiot who doesnt know that we dont have a level playing field.

-or-

B. Lott is a man with a track record of saying a list of things that must be viewed in their context and oh by the way...they happen to offend the same group.

Eitherway...he has to go.

[miloklancy]

I would prefer it if Sean Hannity was a liberal anyway. Hannity is a knee-jerk conservative. I don't think there is anything cerebral about his views. Sure he may be hot with the rhetoric, but he is slow witted and oversimplifies most issues. He is simply blindly defending Lott because he is a Republican and not recognizing what Lott did was out of line. The best thing for Republicans to do is to get Lott to resign as leader in the Senate. This will steal any issue the Democrats have. Yes the Democrats are utter hippocrits on this issue, but Lott needs to go because he has proven that he is not a good leader for his party and his president.

[tomahawk]

Lott needs to leave as leader because he is not a leader, he is not smart, and he detracts from the message Bush & the GOP need to send to remain in power.

[VaBthang4]

"perhaps the good people of this great country are ready to make a stand..."

No we are not.

But I tell you what...if the less than bright crowd wants to turn this into the Alamo then they will be buried in it come 2004 when the Liberals take back the Senate and possibly the congress.

Politics is perception...does that suck? Absolutely...is that the way it is? Absolutely.

Let Lott go.

[Agent Smith]

This is a golden opportunity to get rid of Chester and replace him with Bill Frist, an actual leader. Let's not blow it by wasting time and energy defending an ineffective idiot like Lott.

SEAN SMELL THE COFFEE

DUMP LOTT NOW!

[VaBthang4]

"He is simply blindly defending Lott because he is a Republican and not recognizing what Lott did was out of line. The best thing for Republicans to do is to get Lott to resign as leader in the Senate....He is simply blindly defending Lott because he is a Republican and not recognizing what Lott did was out of line. The best thing for Republicans to do is to get Lott to resign as leader in the Senate. "

I agree with that much.

[Connservative]

The Dems have one goal in mind now, and that is not just having Lott step down as ML but resign entirely and have the Dem governor in MS appoint a Democrat, which would then throw back the Senate to the Dems.

Sad to say, but it is an inevitability at this point :(