[Sub-Driver]

both should resign IMO............

[cyborg]

Er... this doesn't cut it. Byrd drops the n-bomb whenever possible and in national media no less without apology. Please!

[San Jacinto]

Dodd, D-Conn., has been criticized by some conservative broadcast and Internet commentators

Oh, my, it's a FIRESTORM. And all he did was praise a fellow senator. I'll bet if a Republican senator ever did anything like that, nobody would say a word.

right, Trent?

[Keith in Iowa]

That whazoo-aperture Dodd should tell it to Trent Lott, and then lead the call for Lott to be restored to his leadership postion...Lott wouldn't be any worse than Frist...they've both done thier part to make Republican senate Leadership an oxymoron...

[Argus]

Dodd probably thinks Byrd actually was a Senator during the Civil War, and who can blame him?

[OPS4]

So the Trent Lott issue was the big news for weeks as the Liberal Media attacked over his speech when Strom Thurmond retired.

Dodd should be hung out to dry by the media now! He should resign all major committee posts he has.

I for one will email this to all outlets of Media!
Ops4 God Bless America!

[Free ThinkerNY]

Byrd on "race mongrels." "[I will] never submit to fight beneath that banner [the American flag] with a Negro by my side. Rather would I die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." 1947 letter by Robert Byrd. Byrd also filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which he then voted against along with 20 other Senate Democrats.

[stylin19a]

not good enough Sen. Dodd. you must make the apology tour...NAACP,BET, etc....

[OldFriend]

Oh I see, we're to forget his 'white niggers' comments recently.

The man is a despicable bigot and so his Senator Dodd.

[Cubs Fan]

(Byrd) has repeatedly apologized for his brief KKK membership and said his vote against the civil rights bill was one of only two votes that he regrets having made during his 45 years in the Senate.

Typical liberal bias trying to minimize Byrds KKK membership as much as possible

Dodd offered only a general praise of Byrd and did not specifically mention any of Byrd's votes, views or acts.

and Lott never specifically mention any of Thurmond's votes, views or acts either.

The media is so liberal anymore its a joke.

[feedback doctor]

The occasion was Byrd casting his 17,000th vote.

Should read:
The occasion was Byrd casting his 17,000th wrong vote.

[speekinout]

Did anyone beside me notice that Dodd had a significant pause in his speech? At one point he said that Byrd would have been good during the Civil (pause) War. I think he had been going to say Civil Rights Era, but he caught himself in time.

[Go Gordon]

He said he was trying to make the point that Byrd would have been a good senator at any point, and ``I was not thinking of the KKK or his vote against the civil rights act.''

Very Kerry-esque

[Homer1]

He has repeatedly apologized for his brief KKK membership

brief? wasn't he a grand keagle?

[Prime Choice]

[PISANO]

A slight difference being the compliment by Lott was treated with FUROR by the PRESS/MEDIA. The DODD statement has received NO ATTENTION whatsoever. (Other than Rush etc)

Also I believe Strom made SOME amends for his previous bigotry in the last 20 years of his life. From Byrd's RECENT N-WORD use I doubt he has.

Result is DODD gets a pass and a cocktail, Lott gets slammed and looses his job as leader. Hence the difference in TREATMENT between LIBS and Conservatives in Washington DC.

[Rocky]

Hypocrites in the press give Dodd a free pass but demand Lott's job. And they claim they aren't biased. What weasels.

[Qwinn]

"During the 2002 party, Lott specifically endorsed Thurmond's candidacy for president in 1948 on a segregationist platform, saying ``we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years'' if the country had voted as a majority in Mississippi did that year."

There was nothing "specific" about Lott's statement that implied it was the segregationist aspect of Thurmond's campaign that appealed to him. It was, however, easily inferred. If that's true, then CERTAINLY Dodd's comment that Byrd would have been the right man to lead during the -Civil War- is -just- as "specific", and racist intent just as clearly inferred.

The bias in this article is staggering, and the massive double standards at work is nauseating.

Qwinn