Posted on 12/14/2002 6:08:38 AM PST by Mia T
See this Michelle Malkin article about Robert Byrd from March 7, 2001
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I Trent Lott hereby declare that am indeed a racist and that the entire republican party is incorrigibly racist, while the democratic party is as pure as the driven snow. And I hereby declare my support for every democrat in the next election, and until that election I will work to enact every bit of the democrats legislative agenda.
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The racial double standard is relevant only insofar as retaining Lott reinforces it. The double standard is rooted in entrenched perception...and in politics, perception is reality.
The immediate problem facing the GOP is that Lott is a liability, not that it is unfair that he is a liability.
I don't agree totally with that statement. WHY is Lott a liability to the Repubs. when Clinton, Byrd and the others are NOT liabilities to the DEMS? I know; it is a perception problem, but it just pisses me off royally that the Repubs. are loaded down with this!
When I heard what Trent had said, my first thought was that he was trying to make the old man feel better on the occasion of his 100th birthday, a HUGE milestone, by saying wouldn't it have been nice if you'd made it to that 'big office' when you tried. To me it was akin to saying nice things about folks when they die, even if that person wasn't the nicest person around, or disagreed with you politically, you're not going to trash them in front of their family! This is SO much ado about NOTHING!
I don't recall using the phrase "F*cking J*w B*astard"
and I don't remember Bill ever saying G*d D*mn N*gger".
Which party controlled the Senate when Lott was Majority Leader?
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NOW & then...
NOW President Says Trent Lott is Unfit to Lead SenateDecember 12, 2002 "Sen. Trent Lott's racist and sexist comments are outrageous and his apology is insufficient," said NOW President Kim Gandy. "The latest revelations offer ample evidence that Lott is unfit to assume a leadership role in the Senate. He should step down as a candidate for Senate majority leader or the Republicans must select someone who appreciates the progress made in this country over the last 50 years." At Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration, Lott expressed support for the Senator's 1948 presidential campaign, run on the Dixiecrat platform which stood for "the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race." Lott suggested that if Thurmond had been elected president, the U.S. "wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years." Reports now reveal that Lott made an almost identical remark about Thurmond at a rally for Ronald Reagan in 1980. "Feminists who are familiar with Lott's history and his record in the Senate are not surprised by his sentiments. What he sees as a lack of judgment, we see as a lack of character," Gandy said. Gandy also noted that Lott had a long-time affiliation with the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group known for its extremist racial views. "Lott not only insulted millions of African Americans last week, but he also offended women," said Gandy. Former presidential candidate Bob Dole offered to introduce Thurmond to singer Britney Spears, with whom he appeared in a commercial for Pepsi, to which Lott added, "Instead of saying, 'Down boy,' you just say, 'Down Strom.' " "The Thurmond birthday celebration sounds like a toast to the 'good old white boys,'" Gandy said. "Lott clearly yearns for a time before women and people of color crashed the party." "The people of the U.S. deserve far better than Trent Lott," Gandy concluded. "We call on President Bush to repudiate Lott's remarks insulting African Americans and women and to encourage the selection of a more fitting Senate majority leader." FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
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Michael Crichton: "FEMINISM COMMIT INTELLECTUAL SUICIDE WITH ITS SUPPORT OF CLINTON" I had one of the first subscriptions to Ms. magazine. I was actually quite sorry to see feminism take the nosedive it did, to watch it commit intellectual suicide with its support for Clinton. If they like the guy, he can do anything. But if they don't--if it's Bob Packwood--they kill him. It revealed the intellectual contradiction. At least that's my reading of it.
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