CNN Anchor Attacks Bush On Race

CNN | 12/12/02

[Williams]

The CNN anchor this morning was "interviewing" Bill Schneider about the Trent Lott statements. The anchor stated this calls the Republican effort to reach out to minorities into question AND went on to state that Bush "badly handled" both the Bob Jones University and South Carolina confederate flag issues during the 2000 election.

The anchor then said we can only wonder how the 2002 election results would have been different if Lott's remarks had come BEFORE November 5th! Bill Schneider readily agreed.

So it is established fact on CNN that Bush handled those two issues "badly" in 2000? And apparently the 2002 results are now a sham because the Republicans "hid" their racism until after Nov. 5! Some "anchor"!

I am sorry I don't know the CNN anchor's name, he is the heavy set African American gentleman with a mustache.

Schneider said that Lott must appear before a civil rights group and explain himself. I also want to note that CNN has reported on its website that democrats like Jesse Jackson are "angry" over Lott's comments. More nonsense. Democrats may have expressed or claimed anger, but to report it as fact is biased. Politicians don't really get "angry" over their opponents' mistakes, they are ecstatic about them.

[Williams]

Thought I should report the CNN anchor's politically bigoted comments. I think it is obvious Trent Lott doesn't really believe Strom Thurmond should have been president 50 years ago, and that Lott is not supporting segregation in 2002. But it is Lott's weakness that he can't come out and say it emphatically enough to shut people up. He is a marshmallow mouth and therefore can't deal effectively with a crisis. Plus it was pretty dumb to say it in the first place.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Type in the words Communist News Network in a search engine and you will find CNN to maybe identify the anchor. Sorry, I do not watch CNN.

[scooby321]

the same Loser said he wished Lott had said what he said before Nov elections

[colorado tanker]

CNN is biased and wishes the Pubbies had lost the 2002 elections? Well, you could just knock me over with a feather.

[dirtboy]

Politicians don't really get "angry" over their opponents' mistakes, they are ecstatic about them.

I think some politicans can justifiably be both angry and estatic over exploiting what has happened. Jesse, however, ain't one of those - he has NO justification for anger, as he is a world-class bigot himself.

[canadiancapitalist]

The moron in question is Leon Harris. The other day while talking to Bill Schneider, Leon said "...we all know that cutting taxes increases the deficit."

[harrym]

I stated this on another thread but I feel it bears repeating. What Lott said was "if he (Thurmond) had been elected (in 1948) we wouldn't have the problems we face today". In order to get racism from that statement, we have to extrapolate that because Thurmond was a segragationist then and his main plank on the platform was against de-segragation, Lott was referring to that and that alone. My point is that this may not have been the case. In saying that we wouldn't have the problems we face today he is correct, we would have different problems. I think 1948 was a very key turning point in America's social direction. Racism was under attack by the media and rightly so after the war. Feminism coming into the picture because of all the women who finally got out of the kitchen in WWII and worked and liked it and expected to keep on being able to work. A general loosening of morality was in the works (Playboy magazine came out a few years later). All these social changes were being advance by the liberals and opposed by the conservatives. I think Lott was more referring to the fact that had a conservative won in those days it might have slowed the liberal agenda and we would have a whole new set of problems to deal with. Or maybe not.

[ex-Texan]

View two RAT inspired video attacks on Bush:

Lott is the Major Contributing Cause of All this Nonsense

Compare Typical Rat Attack Lacking Telescopic Sighting on Lott

Which is more effective?

[dfwgator]

It doesn't really matter what Trent meant, he should have known better how the media and the Dems would pounce on his statement, fairly or unfairly. The bottom line is that it showed lack of judgement and that he is not qualified to be Senate Majority Leader.

[alaskanfan]

That kind of goes along with what I heard one of the CNN's financial wizards say a few weeks ago.

Paraphrasing it went something like "The economy under Bill Clinton's administration was a direct result of the tax increase that he (Clinton) was responsible for."

Lib-logic at its finest.

[TLBSHOW]

And Republicans who fail to support him are displaying cowardice.

Jesse Lee Peterson

[twyn1]

Gee -- it's really a good thing that the American media is heavily biased towards the conservative side -- I shudder to think what he would have said if he wasn't "under the control" of all those wealthy right wing billionaire fanatics -- /sarcasm

[Pompah]

I would like to help you out with some kind of profound,or insightful comment on your post.
But I never,repeat,NEVER watch cnn.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

What's this "CNN"? Is it a news outlet of some sort?

[meandog]

It doesn't really matter what Trent meant, he should have known better how the media and the Dems would pounce on his statement, fairly or unfairly. The bottom line is that it showed lack of judgement and that he is not qualified to be Senate Majority Leader.

If Lott was not referring to Thurmon's segregationist stance, then why doesn't he come out say what it was he was referring to? The apologies he's made say that he said something inappropriate. If he was referring to something else Strom Thurmond stood for he should come out and say so.

Does anyone else see another point here? The point is, IMHO, Thurmond--like many other segregationists--changed views over the years. Thurmond, like George Wallace, came to understand segregation was wrong in every respect. But, unlike Elridge Cleaver who also experienced a change of heart on the race issue, Thurmond is still held to his pre-enlightenment stance. Why the double standard?

[uncbob]

Wonder how Lott likes it now that Tommy Daschle is all over him

The nerve of Tommy after how nice Trent has been to him all these years

[ARA]

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[dfwgator]

I admire Strom, for like George Wallace he had a change of heart. And where is Fritz "Mr. Confederate Flag" Hollings during all of this? But the point is in 1948, he did stand for segregation. One thing the media doesn't report is the fact that Strom had high support among Blacks in South Carolina (guess that just makes them a bunch of house n!ggers, according to Harry Belafonte).