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Yup. But the "gosh, the Dems do it too" stuff is just the mirror-image of Larry Flynt "defending" Clinton by coming out with other folks' skeletons...

Actually, I thought the author was making a completely different point. Clinton excused his behavior by accusing the right (often falsely) of acting the same way. The author is not excusing Lott's conduct and is quite explicit about that.

Rather the author is pointing out the hypocricy by the left and it's media organs. They go hysterical about Lott and ignore the N word by Byrd and ignore Fullbright's history when Clinton gives him an award.

The point was that the left's PC hysteria is not motivated by any real concern for PC. Rather, it is a weapon to be used selectively to silence opponents and to gain political power.

That said, Lott spoke inappropriately and we should not be hypocrits. When one of ours misbehaves, we usually take him to task, eg Richard Nixon and now Trent Lott.

Fair 'nough.

Too many Freepers are willing to say "well, it's from the left, yada yada yada."

The best we can hope for is that this was just a moment's idiocy, one of many.

"When one of ours misbehaves, we usually take him to task, eg Richard Nixon and now Trent Lott."

You have chosen a strange analogy, Mr ModelBreaker - the actions of Nixon that led to his resignation and the comments made by Lott relative to Strom Thurmond's presidential run in 1948 are not analogous. Senator Lott apologized for his inappropriate remarks. We should let it drop there.

If you want to draw an analogy to Nixon, you need go no further than Ex-42 - but then listing all of Bill Clinton's illegalities, lies, traitorous acts and inappropriate behaviour so as to compare with Richard Nixon's one lie/coverup, in balance makes Richard Nixon's "offense" look like a rather mild misdemeanor. Bill Clinton is still reverenced by those on the Left.