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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (1791)4/20/2004 6:17:01 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Sen. Dodd's gaffe:

<font size=4>Exposing double standard in big media

DO AMERICA'S big media outlets have a double standard when it comes to covering Republicans vs. Democrats? You bet, and last week gave us another good example.<font size=3>

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., cast his 17,000th Senate vote last week. In praising him, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., said that Sen. Byrd would have made a great senator at any point in history, even the Civil War. Dodd made a point of mentioning the Civil War, which is interesting because Byrd is a former Ku Klux Klansman who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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You can tell both senators involved in this gaffe are Democrats because the comment has raised nary a remark from the nation's elite liberal media. Contrast this to Sen. Trent Lott's 2002 remarks praising Sen. Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., at Thurmond's 100th birthday party. The media had a field day bashing Lott for saying that if Thurmond had become President in 1948, America would have fewer problems today. Thurmond ran on a segregationist platform in 1948.

We don't think Lott was longing for segregation when he made those remarks, and we don't think Dodd was longing for slavery when he said Byrd would have made a great senator during the Civil War. We do think the big media overplayed Lott's gaffe because he was a Republican and are downplaying Dodd's because he isn't.
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