Sen Trent Lott to Address Black Americans - RERUN at 11:30 EST (Comments welcomed)

Black Entertainment Television ^ | December 16, 2002 | Ed Gordon

[ewing]

Poised to make his case tonight in a Special Prime Time Interview with Ed Gordon on Black Entertainment Cable Television [8PM EST]..

Trent Lott (R-MS) is now facing more calls to replace him as Senate Majority Leaderfrom top republicans

[kcvl]

It started with the Clinton impeachment

So why haven't you been trying to get rid of him based on that instead of based on racisim? I will be on that train with you.

[StarFan]

Interesting that with it all Jesse Jackson is still NOT satisfied with Lott's contrition (suprised?) and is painting the entire GOP with a racist brush. It will never ever be enough. Would love for Greta to ask him how his son could possibly say that this is the GOP's Monica Lewinsky considering the shame and humiliation his father brought upon his own family.

[pgkdan]

freepers are their own worst enemy.

That's because so many of us are Republicans.

[cake_crumb]

"Lott is doing the same thing the people who want him gone are doing. Look in the mirror kids...Appeasement doesn't work. Many of you sound more pathetic than Lott does"

Whom on this thread is trying to 'appease' anyone? Names, please.

[Lower55]

After castrating Lott, Jesse wants to know if his party will follow him?

Some in his party are handing Jesse the knife and holding Trent's ankles apart.

[TLBSHOW]

they don't have me I will bash the right when I see them doing wrong like the last 2 weeks

[kcvl]

Why didn't it matter until DAYS later what Lott said at Thurmond's party? Everyone in the room must have been racist too if they weren't outraged by what he said AT THAT MOMENT.

[swheats]

Waiting for West Coast showing. Want to watch it for myself, form my own opinion you know how that goes.

[jwalsh07]

However, the anti_Lottites used the race-naiters to do what they couldn't accomplish on their own.

So although they didn't want to associate with Trent Lott, they did associate with race-baiting to accomplish their goal.

Hardly something to write home about.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

It reminds me of Newt days as well. No one else seems to remember this. Even Newt was not stupid enough to fry himself on BET by a race baiter.

[Once-Ler]

In my mind the reaction to Lott's flub is worse than the flub.
We will not agree about the fault, but we both agree this is a sad situation.
I'm giving up for the night.
See you tomorrow.

When do we start bombing Iraq?
Tomorrows good for me.

[kcvl]

Are you a racist?

[Darling Lili]

Larry Sabato at University of Virginia said on Fox News that its 90 days if Lott resigns before Dec 31.

For further clarification: 90 days before a special election is held, to elect a new Senator.

[cake_crumb]

"You seem to be a racist, too."

ROFLOL!

[kcvl]

I'm not sure who advised him to go on BET

What do you think the outcry would be if he refused to go on BET?

[Miss Marple]

I don't think Lott is a racist. I think he has a tin ear and is clueless about how things play in the nation as a whole. He speaks without thinking.

Here is my question: WHO has been advising him? I didn't think his comments were more than a faux pas UNTIL someone (James Carville?) made a point of feeding them to Tim Russert. Then all holy hell broke loose. So who told him to ignore it as it was "no big deal?" Who told him to go on talk radio, rather than hold a press conference? Who told him to go on BET and grovel? Dick Morris has been his political adviser for a long time...that is the culprit, IMHO.

Lott failed to understand that he needed to stop the snowball from rolling downhill. He avoided a national press conference, gave very weak statements, and apparently "forgot" to condemn segragation on Larry King Live, a specific request from the President, which is why the President came out so strongly on Thursday.

I do not want to tar someone with a racist label. I am sick of this whole incident.

However, Lott's appearance tonight (and I didn't see it...I am waiting for the re-run) seems to have betrayed the entire Republican agenda.

I have a great deal of compassion for Senator Lott, who is perhaps an anachronism and just doesn't understand the problem he created. However, the question is not what I think, but whether or not he has the confidence of the Republican senators and also whether he will be able to get legislation through the senate. The rats have effectively set up a counter argument to the obstruction charge: they can claim the moral high ground in protesting Lott's "racism."

Yes, I know they are hypocrites, but that is not the point; they are going to use this as an excuse and it will give them cover.

This is the damage Lott has done. I know it was an innocent faux pas, but it doesn't take away the problem. He has failed to defuse the situation, and has, in fact, made it worse.

What would be your solution to this problem? I don't have a really good answer, but I am confident that if we look for solutions instead of throwing grenades at each other we can figure something out which could be passed on to the White House and the Senate.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Are you? or are you just a baiter? Are you a Pepper?

[kcvl]

Lott said what he said the other night at Thurmond's party because he believes it.

I am so happy that we have mind readers who know more than anyone else.

Do you really believe that blacks in Mississippi would elect a racist? If you do are you calling them stupid?

[Lower55]

"You seem to be a racist, too." ROFLOL!

Does that mean "Right On Freeper..Lots Of Love"?

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Why didn't it matter until DAYS later what Lott said at Thurmond's party? "

I wish I could remember where I read it yesterday,but it was reported somewhere, that Carville( who looked absolutely deathly and jaundiced on tv tonight)was the instigator behind the movement. Most of the media yawned when Trent made his "toast" and it wasn't until Carville got Jesse to go on the Sunday talk shows and call Trent a racist,that things got going.