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To: JohnM who wrote (276)	5/2/2003 11:43:36 PM
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What hyperbole? The only thing I didn't include in my posts to you was Lott's record. The rest was fact & reality. I will admit you like to obfuscate when facts & reality mount against your POV. Byrd's horrific racist record & his outrageous comments on Fox News resulted in absolutely nothing happening to him. In fact, Byrd was elected president pro tempore a few months later. It didn't hurt him at all. He simply continued to waste untold tens of millions in pork projects to WV. Despite the disquieting ease in which the dreaded "N" word rolled off his tongue, with the exception of the scattered conservatives in the press, media reaction was tepid. The reaction from the political left was unnoticeable. Lott paid a steep price for his attempt to be nice to a centenarian at a birthday party. However, to get to the egregiousness of this comment, one had to take his comment & extrapolate it to Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948. Thurmond had later renounced these views as wrong. Lott's comments were idiotic & insensitive, there is no doubt. Perhaps they were even racist if you feel Lott's record supports such a belief. But where's the hype in my post? How about the silence from the left on the matter? How about their silence on most instances when democrats make outrageous statements? Why do they line up in droves when a republican makes a comment that is taken out of context (Like Santorum's), twisted, spun & hyped. Then the democrats refuse to let go until they extract their pound of flesh. By now you've already seen my other post. Those aren't the only examples. However, the pattern of double standards, even hypocrisy seems clear IMO.

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