If you're gonna make the cover of TIME and Newsweek in the same week — as 26-year-old Bruce Springsteen did famously in 1975 — it had better be for something good. Otherwise, your career is pretty much fucked.
Which brings us to today's news item, Trent Lott, who, according to U.S. News and World Report, will be yesterday's news by the end of the week.
Dick Morris, a former advisor to Bill Clinton and Lott who knows something or two about slip-ups and their consequences, goes to bat for Lott in an editorial for the right-wing N.Y. Post, claiming that his record speaks louder than his words when it comes to racial equality.
Lott, of course, had his own chance to clear the air Monday night on BET, a network he may have flipped past once or twice on the way to finding a NASCAR telecast.
Slate's William Taletan was not impressed with Lott's performance in a piece linked off the news site's main headline of "Dead Man Talking."
The sharks are just starting to circle, and my guess is that there will be blood in the water pretty soon. This is where those Capitol Hill public servants are at their best: attacking others. Go for it, gentlemen. I don't care which of you out-of-touch, disingenuous robots benefit.
Just think, none of this would have happened if Strom Thurmond would have just died already.
What a putz, I love watching republicans squirm everytime a new racist comment by Lott comes along. "That Strom, boy I wish he was my dad, oh let me tell you we should've locked up his opponent back in, 1947, 48?... maybe then we would'nt have all them blacks all over the place." Does he really expect this to just go away. And how is a republican administration going to send hundreds of thousands of young black men to the middle east when the leader of the Senate believes they should still be riding on different cheese buses? Bye Trott, hopefully the beginning to the end of racist minds in gov't.
Posted by Odacious at December 19, 2002 4:50 PM