Transcript: Lott Interview on BET

BET | December 17, 2002

[Howlin]

FYI.

[dogbyte12]

Let's see he insulted southerners, came out for AA, was so blatant that his intended audience realized he was full of it. Way to go Trent. Not!

[Howlin]

As majority leader, I can move an agenda that would have things that would be helpful to African-Americans and minorities of all kinds and all Americans, but specifically aimed at showing African-Americans that they have particular concerns and needs that we have to advance an agenda that will help rural and...

He has GOT to go.

[Howlin]

Oh, look, he's talking about his MOTHER.

Perhaps you could post your little tidbit about his mother and the newspaper.

[BlessedAmerican]

Summary:

1. Lott is now for a Martin Luther King holiday 2. Lott is now for affirmative action 3. Lott will look closely at those who he associates with, ie., the Council for Conservative whatever 4. Lott will take steps (?) to lead the Senate in ways that will make us all more sensistive...

If he doesn't resign it is going to be a long two years....

[dogbyte12]

but specifically aimed at showing African-Americans that they have particular concerns and needs

There particular need is not to be treated like retarded stepkids by the democrats or bought off like Lott is intending to do so now.

That paternalistic crap Lott spewed would make even a democratic racist guilty liberal feel too ashamed to utter.

[Howlin]

LOTT: That meeting was one that I urged and supported because, obviously, we've got to sit down and talk about this. It's not enough for me to say we're going to do things differently. I've got to have my colleagues to join me.

[Mo1]

GORDON: Let's talk about the King holiday.

LOTT: I want to talk about the King holiday. I want to go back to that.

I'm not sure we in America, certainly not white America and the people in the South, fully understood who this man was; the impact he was having on the fabric of this country.

That has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard him say

[Howlin]

Here you go. In black and white.

[stylin19a]

The written transcript doesn't convey the tone of the interview. I couldn't stand to watch it anymore. Lott was pathetic.

This just about sealed his coffin.

[Howlin]

LOTT: That meeting was one that I urged and supported because, obviously, we've got to sit down and talk about this. It's not enough for me to say we're going to do things differently. I've got to have my colleagues...join me."

This just kills me. He's acting like they're meeting to decide how to further the black agenda.

[Reagan Man]

One of the worst performances by a politician, I've ever witnessed. Lott's making that hole the liberals started digging last week, deeper by the day.
What kowtowing and asskissing. Disgusting!

[McGavin999]

Thanks for the ping Howlin, I almost gagged reading it, it was bad enough watching it.

[NonZeroSum]

Here's the prelude to the interview.

[Wphile]

Oh man, I just read the LIVE thread. Do I really want to read this?

[dogbyte12]

Perhaps you could post your little tidbit about his mother and the newspaper

I will do ya better. I will toss in her brother Arnie Watson, Trent's uncle who got him into the CCC. In 1999, he said "Blacks "should have been left in their native country," he told the Washington Post. "This mixing races, the Lord didn't intend for it to be that way."

Now... from Trent's mom...

Some time later, Harkey said he received a letter from a woman who told him that if he did not publish her letter it would prove "you are truly an integrationist and I hope you not only get a hole through your office door but through your stupid head."

It was signed Iona W. Lott -- Lott's mother.

"I called her, asked if she'd sent it to me, and she said she certainly had sent it to me and she meant every word," said Harkey, now 84.

Ahhhh. Lott family values. M

[agitator]

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: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness syn see subservient
ob•se•qui•ous•ly adverb
ob•se•qui•ous•ness noun

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[Wphile]

I'm not sure we in America, certainly not white America and the people in the South, fully understood who this man was; the impact he was having on the fabric of this country.

Omigod! He really said THAT? Geez...Trent, just where the h*ll were you in the 60s? I was only a child and I fully understood who this man was! Granted I didn't grow up in the South, but griminy he's making it sound like the South was a bunch of bodunk hillbillies. Oh, Trent...you have just dug your political grave.

[Mo1]

Well I think that is the least of his problems right now, plus it should be easy to prove who really did ask for the meeting ... so I have no idea why he would have said it

But then I am still wondering why he said alot of what he did