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

[auboy]

Agree with your post 980 completely. You hit the nail on the head!

[kcvl]

White House officials say the president's scolding of Mr. Lott was necessary because he had inflamed racial tensions with a remark that his critics — first among them the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton — interpreted as an endorsement of segregation. Democrats and newspaper and television reporters asked him to repudiate Mr. Lott's remarks.

Several Republican senators who had publicly excused Mr. Lott's remark at Mr. Thurmond's 100th birthday party say they feel "blindsided" now by the president's belated and blunt attack on Mr. Lott.

One Republican aide on Capitol Hill said Mr. Bush "cut the feet out from under" these senators by remaining silent for a full week after Mr. Lott's comments, and then to go on the attack.

The White House at first discounted the significance of the remark.

Four days later, the White House gave Mr. Lott a strong endorsement as point man for the president's agenda in the Senate. "The president has confidence in him as Republican leader, unquestionably," Mr. Fleischer said.

But 24 hours later, after both the New York Times and The Washington Post urged that Republicans replace Mr. Lott as their leader, the administration's position changed dramatically.

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[xsmommy]

OMG, someone needs to just put a muzzle on the guy. i can't stand to see him on the screen another minute, waffling, apologizing, pandering. he makes me want to PUKE! i could not bear to watch the BET interview and left the room when they would show segments from it. i want this over with!

[anniegetyourgun]

Of course he's stupid, and of course he should step down....but what we are seeing played out now is just plain weird.

[ApesForEvolution]

Wierd in a Lott kinda way. Better his true colors now and we can move on.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yes, Lott is weird. However, the lib/dems and media are acting so weird that I'm not sure Lott's stepping down is going to stop the frenzy. It appears that even if Lott were tarred, feathered, drawn and quartered - it's not going to be enough. In other words, I smell a long-term strategy on the part of lib/dems against all conservatives. Expect the theme and bashing to be drawn out throughout this next session and into the elections.

[Consort]

You are saying if people want to vote they have to pass some kind of test now?

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Do you always try to tell others what they are saying? Do you always jump to the wrong conclusion? Is there a name for that kind of thinking?

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I wonder if the RATS know that?

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Good.

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I believe they were passing out freebies in Louisiana to get people to vote.

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OK.

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You better call them and tell them to stop that because those people didn't study the issues.

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Non Sequitur. What does that have anything to do with? Where are you trying to go with this?

[rintense]

President Bush had to make his statement and I am sure he is furious at the position he AND our party have been placed in by one person and one person alone. Trent Lott.

I don't doubt that one bit.

[kcvl]

If Trent Lott is a racist then they shouldn't stop at just throwing him out because more than a few people would have known this before now. If he's not then I don't think the Republican Party is any better than the Democratic Party after this.

You don't hang a person for a stupid remark and when they apologize you let it go. You don't stab them in the back and then stomp them in the ground. I was taught to treat people better than this no matter how much I dislike them or disagree with them.

I can't believe that I have mistaken so many people for good and honest people that I had hoped they were. Now I don't know. It seems like so many are willing to hang this man because Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, James Carville, et al, think he's a racist(or just saying that he is).

When Pres. Bush starts taking advice from the New York Times and The Washington Post then I know that he is not the person that I thought he was. If it took him 24 hours to figure out that what Trent Lott said was wrong then he is also a racist or knew that it wasn't a big deal. Either way he has let his enemies destroy someone from his own party who helped get him elected. He is pandering to people who will never vote for him and ignoring the people who worked hard to help him.

I understand that some people including myself think Lott has been too nice to Democrats. That is what Pres. Bush wanted him to do because he wanted everyone to get along I thought. How much good did that do them or anyone else? Instead of telling them to back off and stop this nonsense which he could have done he attacked Lott. That made me angry to begin with just like his support of Campaign Finance Reform. I was willing to let that go along with his jumping on Lott for what he said. That was enough.

Now I find out that the reason he said anything at all is because liberal newspapers and media along with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton asked him to. If he couldn't figure out on his own whether it was right or wrong and stand up for his own beliefs then I'm sorry. I can't stand up for him either. And I sure can't ask anyone else to vote for someone that I don't believe in any longer.

For anyone wanting Lott out(including myself before this), there is a right way to do it and there is a wrong way to do it. This is not the right way to get rid of him. Labeling him as a racist and letting someone else do your dirty work makes us no better than them.

I hope everyone who is willing to trash him and keep trashing him holds the rest of the Washington politicians to the same standard that you have set for Lott. I also hope that people will forgive you for your mistakes instead of holding them against you until you are destroyed. Thank goodness I have family, friends and neighbors who know that I am human and make mistakes. They are willing to forgive me, let it go and get on with life.

You might want to check you own closets before you clean your neighbors.

[hobbes1]

This guy cannot be kept as Majority Leader.

But we have ben saying that for years.

[dalebert]

Oh sure. Lott is just digging a deeper hole and will use our tax dollars to climb out of it. Blacks are not going to listen to him and I don't care to either.

[anniegetyourgun]

This isn't about Lott and it isn't about me. It's over for him, racist or not. (And I don't think he is anything but a long-since reformed racist....just like so many southern pols of today. He's just an idiot.)

The only question left now is whether or not the R party has figured out how to stop the bleeding, because the D's have now determined the issue they intend to keep hammering away at for the next 11 months. I'm waiting to see how the next R handles these kinds of accusations, because they are inevitable. In fact, I expect January to be the unleashing of all the opposition research the D's have done on every R who holds office now.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

And the blonde guy (his name escapes me) can't spell POTATOE.

[GraniteStateConservative]

They like the pork he brings home.

[cerberus]

He will throw himself at the mercy of liberalism, he will promise to endorse every program designed for minorities from hence forth.

This is why senate Republicans should have "counseled" Senator Lott to resign as SML last week.

Every day this continues plays into the hands of the liberals and race hustlers.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Whatever. Carville tried to demonize Bush, too. And he's already tried to demonize Ashcroft. He's failed. You know why? Neither are bigots. Lott, on the other hand...

[cyncooper]

You are darned right I am concerned about the likes of James Carville. Who do you think helped put the *astard in the White House for eight long years. He is planning on putting another one there. Don't believe me? Just wait and see.

You are not alone in your concerns about Carville and his schemes.

Of course, I was referring to some of us who have taken a different position than yours in the Lott matter being told we are the willing stooges of Carville--in this matter. That is not the case.

[Freedom2specul8]

"Dan Quayle"

But it was the teacher's notes he was going by!! (snicker) he should have just went with his gut instincts wrt: to potato vs potatoe vs potatoes

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Yep, that's him, thanks. I had no idea the teacher goofed up. I can't believe the big deal made out of that. But atleast he didn't go on the SPELLERS CHANNEL afterwards and sell his parties soul.

[dogbyte12]

Lott is toast. I think he is about the only person in DC who doesn't realize it yet.