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 Lott Apologizes for Some Thurmond Praise 

By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH (Direct descendent of Joseph Stalin! - tha malcontent)
 Associated Press Writer DECEMBER 10, 11:50 ET

 

WASHINGTON (AP) � Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, battered by a sharp backlash from a comment at a birthday party, has apologized for implying the country would have been better off had Strom Thurmond won the presidency when he ran in 1948 on a segregationist ticket.

 

(ap) - I say we focus on the DemocRATS real racist comments that were ignored over a year and half ago and were NOT followed by calls for DemocRAT Senior Senator Robert "there are White Niggers" Byrd's resignation.  I predicted this hypocrisy from the "Free Press" when it happened, and now they have proven me right once again!  Enjoy... - tha malcontent)

 

Byrd Apologizes for Racial Epithet 

 

By... surprise, surprise, no one claims this one either! (Direct descendent of Joseph Stalin)
Associated Press Writer MARCH 05, 09:05 EST 

WASHINGTON (AP) � Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., apologized for his use of a racial epithet in an interview broadcast Sunday.

(ap) - This is normally referred to as a "SLUR"! Most of the ignorant sheep in America don't even know the definition of the word "epithet"! Here is the top definition of the word just to illustrate the favor the "Free Press" is doing for Byrd (D) by not using the word SLUR, "(ep�i�thet n.) 1a.) A term used to characterize a person or thing, such as rosy-fingered in rosy-fingered dawn or the Great in Catherine the Great. 1b.) A term used as a descriptive substitute for the name or title of a person, such as The Great Emancipator for Abraham Lincoln." I believe the coverage of this racial slur against both whites and blacks by the "Free Press" is as good an example as one can find on how DemocRATS get a pass by the "Free Press" for this type of racist behavior. Had this been Strom Thurman (R) or John Ashcroft (R), we would have had the head of the Congressional Black Caucus, the ACLU and the NAACP screaming bloody murder along with round table discussions on the issues of race and bigotry and how they are infecting the Republican party! But no, this was a DemocRAT and a former KKK member who used this word. The "Free Press" regularly refers to this bigot as the "Conscience of the Senate"!!! Are we going to hear Dan Rather (D) use the "Robert Byrd Wing of the DemocRAT Party" phrase in the future? I highly doubt it! This is a new low for the so called "Free Press" and their ongoing shielding from harm of those in their party, the DemocRATS! - tha malcontent)

Asked about race relations today, the 83-year-old Byrd said in the interview taped Friday with ``Fox News Sunday'' that they are ``much, much better than they've ever been in my lifetime. ... I think we talk about race too much. I think those problems are largely behind us.'"

(The "Free Press" can't even lead with the SLUR, much less put in the headline! This headline would have read "ASHCROFT: "THERE ARE WHITE NIGGERS", had this been a Republican who said this! - tha malcontent)

He continued: ``I think we try to have good will. My old mom told me, `Robert, you can't go to heaven if you hate anybody.' We practice that. There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time; I'm going to use that word.

("white niggers... I'm going to use that word." This guy couldn't have been more confident in himself and the use of that word on national television! By the way, the "Free Press" waited until Byrd (D) issued an apology for this SLUR before reporting on it! The only acceptable "apology" from a Republican as far as the DemocRATS and their "Free Press" are concerned would have been the Republicans resignation! - tha malcontent)

``We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much.'' 

The interviewer, Tony Snow, said that Byrd's office later issued an apology.

(It was at this point that the AP felt compelled to report on this story! - tha malcontent)

``I apologize for the characterization I used on this program. The phrase dates back to my boyhood and has no place in today's society. As for my language, I had no intention of casting aspersions on any one of another race,'' according to the statement read on air.

("The phrase dates back to my days in the KKK"! Come on "Free Press", do you expect me to believe that Byrd's (D) membership in the KKK is irrelevant to this story? Why is there no mention of this FACT in this piece of journalistic DUNG!? Thinking people can come to the correct conclusion on that one! - tha malcontent)

NAACP President Kweisi Mfume was not particularly impressed by Byrd's apology. He telephoned The Associated Press to say the fact that Byrd felt ``comfortable enough on nationwide TV to refer to any group in that manner suggests that any progress he has made on race is relative.''

(Had this been Thurman (R) who said this, there would have been calls for boycotts of his home state and demands for his resignation! - tha malcontent)

Calling the remark ``both repulsive and revealing,'' the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said he assumes Byrd's apology was well meant, but suggested there comes a time when a person has to avoid making remarks that require apologies.

("assumes his apology was well meant "... this is "revealing" to tha malcontent! What about asking "white niggers" how they feel about Byrd's (D) statement? I understand getting the view of the NAACP, but how about getting the feelings of the people that this statement was directly aimed at? That would be a hard one to define, wouldn't "Free Press"! Where do you start, the trailer park, or the stock car track? Wait, I know, the truck stop! This is DISGUSTING "Free Press"!... but very "revealing"! - tha malcontent)

 

Lott Apologizes for Some Thurmond Praise 

By SIOBHAN McDONOUGH (Direct descendent of Joseph Stalin! - tha malcontent)
 Associated Press Writer DECEMBER 10, 11:50 ET 

WASHINGTON (AP) � Senate Republican leader Trent Lott, battered by a sharp backlash from a comment at a birthday party, has apologized for implying the country would have been better off had Strom Thurmond won the presidency when he ran in 1948 on a segregationist ticket. 

 

(ap - Now enjoy the "Free Press" generated "OUTRAGE" over comments at a Birthday Party that were obviously as tongue in cheek as they were in bad taste, as opposed to the DemocRATS "Conscience of the Senate's" assertion that "there are White Niggers" on "the people's" airwaves in a public interview.  tha malcontent is feena Brainy Smurf right about now! - tha malcontent)

``A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past,'' Lott said in a statement issued Monday night. ``Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.'' 

Lott's statement came ``out of personal concern for the misunderstanding,'' his spokesman, Ron Bonjean, said. 

Members of the House Congressional Black Caucus, at a news conference Tuesday, said Lott's apology was insufficient. ``I'm very concerned and very upset that anybody who would issue such a statement would be in the leadership of this nation or the Senate,'' said Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who on Tuesday was elected the next chairman of the 39-member caucus. 

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., warned fellow Democrats that it would not be acceptable to explain away such statements ``and then at election time talk about why black Americans should turn out in large numbers.'' 

Earlier Monday, former Vice President Al Gore, who served in the Senate with Lott and Thurmond, said Lott should withdraw his ``racist statement'' or face Senate censure of those comments. 

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson described Lott, a Mississippi Republican, as ``an unrepentant Confederate who cannot speak for all Americans.'' 

Gore, speaking on CNN's ``Inside Politics,'' said the Senate should censure Lott for his comments if he didn't withdraw them. ``It is not a small thing for one of the half-dozen most prominent political leaders in America to say that our problems are caused by integration and that we should have had a segregationist candidate,'' he said. ``That is divisive, and it is divisive along racial lines.'' 

Lott, a 14-year Senate veteran, returns to the position of majority leader next month because Republicans recaptured control of the Senate in November's elections. The leader of the majority party is the most powerful senator because of the leader's control of the Senate agenda. 

At a party celebrating retiring Sen. Thurmond's 100th birthday, attended by hundreds of Thurmond's family members and friends from South Carolina, Senate colleagues and members of the Supreme Court, Lott said that when Thurmond ran for president on a states' rights, anti-integration ticket in 1948, Mississippi voted for him. 

``We're proud of it,'' Lott said to applause. ``And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.'' 

In a statement Monday before he apologized, Lott insisted his comments last week had been lighthearted and in no way endorsed Thurmond's positions of more than a half-century ago. 

``This was a lighthearted celebration of the 100th birthday of legendary Sen. Strom Thurmond,'' Lott said in his first statement. ``My comments were not an endorsement of his positions of over 50 years ago, but of the man and his life.'' 

A call left at Thurmond's Washington office after work hours was not immediately returned. 

Jackson, in a statement, said Lott should step down. ``The civil rights movement was one of America's finest hours. Strom Thurmond's massive resistance to that movement, and his support in states like Mississippi, was one of one of history's low points. Trent Lott must not be allowed to tarnish that truth.'' 

Kevin Martin, government and political affairs director of the African American Republican Leadership Council, said people were overreacting. ``By no means was he endorsing segregation or anything like that,'' Martin said. ``It was lighthearted. It was humorous.'' Martin said Lott wins 25 percent of the black vote in Mississippi, which he said couldn't happen if Lott were a racist. 

Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle also came to Lott's defense Monday, saying he had talked with Lott on the phone and accepted Lott's explanation that he hadn't meant for the remarks to be interpreted as they were. 

``There are a lot of times when he and I go to the microphone and would like to say things we meant to say differently, and I'm sure this was one of those cases for him, as well,'' Daschle said. 

Thurmond, then governor of South Carolina, received 39 electoral votes in his 1948 president bid, all from Southern states. 

He entered the Senate in 1954 and became one of the South's most vocal opponents of integration. He opposed the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision and filibustered against civil rights legislation. 

Later in his career he changed his positions, hiring black staff members and helping promote blacks to federal judgeships. 

Thurmond retired this year as history's oldest member of Congress and the longest-serving senator ever.

 

(Where were all of these hypocrites when their boy Byrd was throwing around the word Nigger?  That's what I thought!  And the "Free Press' is just as shameful for not pointing this out! - tha malcontent)

 


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