Posted on 12/12/2002 9:30:18 PM PST by Republican_Strategist
Id like to make my position clear that I believe Lott should have resigned a long time ago rather than this latest gaffe, which exposes that Democrats are an ideologically twisted bunch that rely on propagandizing & fear mongering because their political agenda is repulsive. Lott is too conciliatory and he isnt conservative to my liking.
Rush Limbaugh laid out precisely what Lotts weak-kneed approach got him, go here.
In Lott Case, Networks Find Conservative Scolding Newsworthy
With conservatives scolding Trent Lott for his suggestion that the country wouldnt have had all these problems over all these years if Strom Thurmond had won his 1948 segregationist presidential bid, the networks decided that what conservatives think was worthy of showcasing. ABC and NBC reporters failed to label the NAACP as liberal in highlighting its demand that Lott step down, but tagged the conservatives. CBSs Dan Rather imputed great respectability to the NAACP by describing it as the oldest civil rights group in the United States.
Media Hypocrisy: Skip Clinton Praising a Segregationist
The medias hypocrisy. Theyve pounced on Trent Lott, but on National Review Online Mark Levin noted how they didnt care when just six weeks ago Bill Clinton praised J. William Fulbright, a racist, segregationist Senator, for urging Americans to be utopian in our values and vision." In 1993, Clinton awarded Fulbright a Presidential Medal of Freedom and gushed: The American political system produced this remarkable man, and my state did, and I'm real proud of it."
Networks Focus on Trent Lott for Second Day
The networks focused on the Trent Lott story for a second straight day on Wednesday night and continued to treat as wise sages conservatives who criticized Lott. While ABCs Peter Jennings cited only how Ted Kennedy called his remarks an irresponsible salute to bigotry, CBSs Bob Schieffer managed to use the term conservative three times in his story without once uttering the word liberal even as he cited Kennedy and John Kerry. CNN earned kudos as Aaron Brown balanced his interview with a Lott critic with a segment featuring a Lott defender and Jonathan Karl recalled Robert Byrds remarks from last year.
How can anyone continue to deny the Liberal Media is beyond reproach.
I stand by what I said.
Strom Thurmond is/was a politician, and would have gone whatever direction the political wind blew.
What difference 4 years, or even 8, if he succeeded in getting re-elected?
Truman's forced integration of the military had already taken place, and it wouldn't be until 1960 that the Civil Rights movement really began.
I know, Brown vs Board of Education Topeka (54) Little Rock (57)
But it really began in '60.
Strom would have been well out of it by then.
But Strom was a sideline, a thought about "what if" he had actually won.
My point was, Lott never said, "Those Race Problems", or "Those integration problems".
Lott simply said "some of the problems".
I am not a mind reader, and never claimed to be.
I have no idea what problems Lott was referring to.
Liberals and Lott detractors all must be claiming the power of telepathy, as they all claim to know exactly what Lott meant.
That is my whole and only argument.
I myself am a Lott Detractor.
But not on the basis of his comment, or even his poor record on Civil Rights as recently recounted ad nauseum.
( had I been more familiar with that record, I might have been more inclined however, to "assume" a racial reference to the remark.)
I don't like Trent Lott because he is spineless.
His failure to stand against Democrats and their Liberal (Socialist) agenda is the sole reason for my wishing Trent Lott to step down as Majority Leader.
We need somebody with backbone that will promote and defend Conservative Values, Conservative Legislation.
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