After a flurry of Internet criticism, GOP Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott is forced to apologize for his paean to segregation at Strom Thurmond’s birthday party, a paean which echoed his prior support for such racialist organizations as the Council of Conservative Citizens. So, were Lott’s remarks really a “poor choice of words” or a brief glimpse of something more sinister in the Majority Leader’s character? You be the judge.
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According to an article on the CNN web site, this isn’t the first time Lott has used nearly the same words…
http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/11/lott.comment/index.html