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Could this be a sign?
Call-In
News Review
C-SPAN, Washington Journal
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID: 174236 - 4 - 12/15/2002 - 1:00 - No Sale
Halperin, Mark, Political Director, ABC Television, News
Ambinder, Marc, Producer, ABC Television, News
Okay, freep the shows with this from Peach yesterday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/806497/posts?page=21
The Post has it wrong. The moral hypocrisy of the Left is moving this forward. They said nothing when Clinton awarded Fulbright the Presidential Medal of Honor for crying out loud. To bestow that honor on an avowed racist was okay for a Democrat, I guess. You've probably seen my editorial printed in the Washington Times today, but I've reposted it below. (BTW, I sent it to other major media outlets, but they won't dare use it because it exposes their own hypocrisy).
While not a fan of Trent Lott, I feel compelled to respond to the selective outrage regarding his comments at Strom Thurmond’s 100th birthday. On May 5, 1993, the Washington Post quoted former President Clinton’s comments at an 88th birthday ceremony for former Arkansas Senator William Fulbright where Clinton bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom on the man he described as a “visionary humanitarian, a steadfast supporter of the values of education, and my mentor."
Of course, the man Clinton was praising was a rabid segregationist. In 1956, Fulbright was one of 19 senators who issued a statement entitled the "Southern Manifesto." This document condemned the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Its signers stated, among other things, that "We commend the motives of those States which have declared the intention to resist forced integration by any lawful means."
Fulbright later voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act. And he did so because he was a segregationist and believed in separating the races — in schools and other public places.
More recently, in October 2002, Clinton traveled to Arkansas to dedicate a 7 foot bronze statute to Fulbright, and still nothing from the press admonishing Clinton for honoring a racist.
I'm not making excuses for Trent Lott. He should have apologized for his insensitive comments, and he did. Nor am I making excuses for Strom Thurmond's past. I'm questioning the hypocrisy of selective moral outrage by the Left.
4 posted on 12/14/2002 11:45 AM MST by Peach
Lott's colleagues, from both sides of the aisle, will be damning him with faint praise.
The chump's toast.
Look, I never like "Sparrow Feather" Lott. He sold the House Managers up the river, made a deal with Byrd and Daschle to make the Senate Impeachment Trial a joke (no witnesses, time limits, no evidence presented, etc), and who can forget Lott during the Lt Kelly (lies, sleeps with enlisted man, sleeps with husband of yet another enlisted woman, lies again) Flynn:
LOTT: "Come on guys! I mean, like, get real!"
Thanks a Lott!
However, I didn't want him "Borked"--because we do the right thing for the wrong reason.
But now, Lott says that if he cannot be Majority Leader, he resigns, puts a RAT in seat, and takes his GI Joe and goes home.
Again, thanks a Lott---for nothing. He is a crummy leader. But, what we are seeing is a naked power grab by the media and the Dirtycrats. They can't win at the polls, so they play games.