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Re: What does a Republican have to do to cause outrage? [was Re: Not embarassed to be a Canadian...]
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Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:50:09 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > > He may disagree with Bush's decisions handling worldwide terrorism, but
> > > calling them "moronic" is mere demogoguery.
> >
> > Why is it that when Limbaugh, Reagan, Gallagher, Buchannan, Falwell,
> > Robertson, Carlson, Will, O'Reilly et al spout pro-Republican invective it's
> > called "fair and balanced reporting," but when a left-leaning commentator voices
> > n opinion it's called demagoguery? Is that the accursed Liberal Media at work
> > again? Given your love of free speech, I expect that you'd like to have the
> > Canadian commentator strung up next to Jessica Lange.
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> I fear the strong pro-liberal media in the USA has struck again. I read this
> yesterday:
>
> It's a dirty business
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,857026,00.html
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> ==+==
> But then it is extraordinary what you do and don't hear in the US at present.
> Last Thursday, as predicted in this column a fortnight ago, senator Strom
> Thurmond, who ran for president as a breakaway candidate in 1948, attained his
> 100th birthday. Among the tributes was one from a fellow senator, Trent Lott of
> Mississippi, who recalled the fact that his own state had voted for Thurmond as
> president. "We're proud of it," Lott said. "And if the rest of the country had
> followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these
> years, either."
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> A couple of facts may need explaining here. Trent Lott is no ordinary senator:
> he is the leader of the Senate Republicans, who have just regained the
> majority. That makes him something like the fifth or sixth most powerful man in
> the country. And Strom Thurmond was no ordinary presidential candidate. His
> campaign had one essential issue: the continuation of segregation.
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> Lott's remarks have been picked up by a handful of newspapers and TV stations
> and none of the news agencies. What does a Republican have to do to cause
> outrage in this place? Demand the return of slavery?
> ==+==
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> Some background on Thurmond [From Irish Times]:
> http://flag.blackened.net/daver/misc/thurmond.html
> ==+==
> When he was governor of South Carolina in 1948, Thurmond ran for President on a
> "states' rights" (code for "white power") ticket, advocating "segregation of
> all the races". In 1964 Thurmond stumped the south for the blatantly racist
> presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater (as, of course, did the independent
> counsel Kenneth Starr). Ever since, in his deplorably long political career,
> Thurmond has continued to appeal to the racial prejudice of an electorate which
> has rewarded him with an eternal place in the Senate.
> ==+==
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> What a nice old man!
>
> Scott A
Everything I read about this issue tells me that Strom 'renounced' his
segregationalist views, that he became more moderate thru the years.
Times changed and so did Strom. Lott, on the other hand, still hasn't
clarified what he meant by "All these problems thru all these years" and
that two line apology isn't gonna cut it.
This, as far as I can see, puts the 'moron' quote waaay down the scale of
political slips.
Dave K
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