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We've been saying that Lott is a trainwreck waiting for an audience; it happened and it happened on BET Monday night.

I believe that there is an "inside the Beltway" effect that magnifies everything to gargantuan proportions. The Nielsen rating for BET that night show 830,000 people watched (80% boost for that slot). CNN and Fox News come in at the 700,000 to 800,000 mark, too, though normally. I don't think the mainstream audience is paying attention to this, and they're only absorbing what they're seeing on ABC, CBS, NBC, and newspapers. The networks reach millions of homes, but the news is squeezed into only a few scattered hours. Out of the 100 million who voted in 2000, the audience for the Lott show was less than 1% of voters.

Lott will be out, I don't doubt that. I think it will be in January.

-PJ

"I believe that there is an "inside the Beltway" effect that magnifies everything to gargantuan proportions. The Nielsen rating for BET that night show 830,000 people watched (80% boost for that slot). CNN and Fox News come in at the 700,000 to 800,000 mark, too, though normally. I don't think the mainstream audience is paying attention to this, and they're only absorbing what they're seeing on ABC, CBS, NBC, and newspapers. The networks reach millions of homes, but the news is squeezed into only a few scattered hours. Out of the 100 million who voted in 2000, the audience for the Lott show was less than 1% of voters."

The soundbites heard by 10s of millions was a)Affirmative Action (yes), b)Trent admitted to the charges (sadly) and c)See, we told you they're leader is a sheet wearer.

Trent will step down when everybody gets their head on straight and realize the stakes. Jan. 6th will maybe be the formality, but IMHO, it's too long to fester - JUST FOR THE SAKE OF THE BASE THAT IS UTTERLY DISGUSTED - and it's leaking over to Bush's equivocations and firm non-starters, but rather the leaks.

Also, there might have been a 'small' audience on BET, but the BET transcript has been picked apart by every conservative and conservative rag on the net and in print, plus the weeklies that will highlight this through Christmas. The play on the grassroots is critical and Lott pissed a *LOT* of people off. It's getting worse, and worse, and worse every day. Which is why I don't think Lott will make it to Christmas when people at the top level decide enough is enough. This is activism (the core electioneers of the party), fundraising and morale now. When JC Watts called him to step out of leadership, it was a real blow. The only ones now saying he should stay are RATS. It's over amigo. Trent stays on with dire consequences.