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Time and Newsweek Use Lott to Smear GOP as Race-Baiters
MRC Alert ^ | Thursday, December 19, 2002 13:24:29 | B.Baker

Posted on 12/19/2002 11:09:32 AM PST by fight_truth_decay

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To: ravingnutter
OTOH

CNN: Do you have a comment on Senator Lott?

Clinton: No, other than....I think that -- obviously -- I don't agree with him.

But I think there is something a bit hypocritical about the way Republicans are jumping all over him. I think what they really are upset about is he made public their strategy.

The whole Republican apparatus supported campaigns in Georgia and South Carolina on the Confederate flag. There is no action coming out of the Justice Department against all those people, Republicans, who suppressed black voters in the South, in Arkansas and Louisiana, and lots of other places. Telephone operations telling people in Florida they didn't have to vote on Election Day, that they could vote on Saturday but not if they had parking tickets. I mean, this is their policy.

So I think the way that the Republicans treated Senator Lott is a pretty hypocritical since right now, their policy is in my view inimical to everything this country stands for. They tried to suppress black voting, they ran on the Conferederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina and from top to bottom Republicans supported them. So I don't see what they're jumping on Trent Lott about.

I think the Democrats can say we disagree with what he said and we don't think its right but that's the Republican policy. How do you think they got a majority in the South anyway?

CNN: So he should step down as majority leader?

Clinton: I think that's up to them. But I think that they can't say it with a straight face. How can they jump all over him when they're out there repressing and trying to run black voters away from polls and to run on the Confederate flag in Georgia and South Carolina. Look at their whole record. The others, how can they attack him? He just embarrassed them by saying in Washington what

22 posted on 12/19/2002 1:44:25 PM PST by MurryMom
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To: MurryMom
The man is a menace to society!!
23 posted on 12/19/2002 2:18:34 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: fight_truth_decay
The man is a menace to society!!

LOL!

On further thought I agree, assuming you mean Sen. Lott and not CNN!

24 posted on 12/19/2002 2:51:42 PM PST by MurryMom
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To: fight_truth_decay
--(Cast the GOP) as the ones exploiting white resentments against blacks.--

Of course the real truth is that the only ones exploiting resentment is the democrat party which exploits black resentment of whites.

25 posted on 12/19/2002 3:57:38 PM PST by republicman
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To: Paul Atreides
Time and Newsweek?
What a surprise that they would use this to smear the GOP. (not).

Of course, given that a majority of Americans have given the the House, the Senate and the White House to the GOP, Time and Newsweek are showing thier contempt for a huge portion of the population.

26 posted on 12/19/2002 5:50:51 PM PST by Jorge
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To: MurryMom
I meant Clinton.
27 posted on 12/19/2002 9:11:23 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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