This whole thing is a PC circus. Lott was being nice to an old geezer on his birthday, and stuck his foot in his mouth. The libs are just having a field day to score political points...period. What did they do when Byrd used the word "N...ger" on national TV last year? Diddly-squat.
This is now taking on the aura of a lynching. Lott is being publically humiliated and destroyed to teach the other white males out there what will happen if we stray (even accidentally or carelessly) off of the PC reservation.