A Whole Lott of Stupidity: In the
November 11 Broadsides post, it was asked whether the Senate Republican leader, Mississippi's Trent Lott, has a neutral zone around his head.
We now know the answer to that question.
At a party celebrating Sen. Strom
Thurmond's 100th birthday last week, Lott was thinking about Thurmond's 1948 presidential candidacy. In that election Thurmond championed racial segregation as the nominee of a splinter group of racist Democrats better known as the Dixiecrats. When it was Lott's turn to pay tribute to Thurmond, he belched this appalling proclamation:
I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.
Is Lott actually saying that he voted for segregation, that he's proud of voting for segregation, and that he regrets the rest of the country opposed segregation? Sure as hell sounds that way. Whether or not he meant it the way it sounds, such a statement renders Lott unfit to be the Senate Republican leader.
The question has been answered. Trent Lott does
not have a neutral zone around his head; that would be physically impossible since his head is up his ass.
