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Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Well, you can pretty much pick your favorite part of the Lott interview with BET last night. Was it when he surprisingly announced his steadfast support for affirmative action? Or was it when he said that he voted against the MLK Holiday because he didn't know what kind of person MLK was (I assume, other than he was black), but now that he knows, he would have voted differently.
For someone who hammered Clinton after his Lewinsky deposition, my favorite part was his attempt to explain what "those problems" meant:
Q.Senator, many of those African-Americans believe, quite frankly, that that was you speaking in code to constituents with a wink and a nod saying, "You know, the good old days."
So you tell us, so we won't have conjecture on what you meant, what did you mean when you said, "those problems"?
A. I was talking about the problems of the defense and communism and budgets and governments sometimes that didn't do the job.
As the principal says in the Goldie Hawn classic film Wildcats, "Riiiiiight."
Also, did you notice this part too:
Lott: I mean, even today I talked to John Lewis, Congressman Lewis from Georgia, and I said, "You know, I heard you on `Meet the Press,' and you talked about——
Q. Inviting you to travel with him, to go out.
A. Yes, but also another thing that I picked up on, the need for perhaps us to develop a plan, working together in a bipartisan way, bicameral, and multiracial, you know, young and old, men and women from all sections of the country to have a task force of reconciliation; sit down and talk.
Lott, to me, seemed to be trying to avoid having to take that trip with Lewis. Could you imagine him going home to his buddies in Mississippi after that?
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