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To: tejek who wrote (156601)	12/23/2002 10:36:25 AM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 1580695

Ted...Re..Its not surprising you would see it that way but frankly, you're opinion is just one of many and apparently, Mr. Lott's colleagues do not agree with you.< I did not say anything about Mr Lott or his colleagues agreeing with me. I said the dems would likely get hurt also. To prove my point. here is what I heard on Meet The Press yesterday. MR. RUSSERT: A healing effect. David Broder, as you look at these last two weeks, were there any groups that did not acquit themselves well? MR. BRODER: I think there are two losers, Tim. I think the Democrats lost ground, in part. Former Senator Al Simpson from Wyoming said to me, “They have defanged Daschle now.” Daschle can go stand up there and point his finger and talk about those rotten evil Republicans, and people are going to see Bill Frist standing across the aisle from him, who doesn’t look rotten or evil. The other reason I think the Democrats are losers is that when they had a moral issue in front of them with President Clinton, they denounced him, but they never acted against him. Indeed, they rallied around him. And I think that contrast is one that people will remember. Frankly, also, I think many of us in the news media also did not acquit ourselves terribly well. Took a long time for this story to develop. Many reporters at the event did not write about it in the first instance. And secondly, because we allowed anonymous sources from the administration to use us to take down Senator Lott. MR. GEORGE: The flip side of that, though, is that those that did acquit themselves, though, I think, on the conservative side, conservatives stepped forward and said, “Any hint of being pro-segregation or having any kind of racial animus is not what we want in our Republican Party.” So I think they acquitted themselves well. And I think also some of the Internet journalists and the Web site bloggers and so forth kept this story bubbling in that very first weekend. There you have it. Two influential newsmen say the Democrats were the losers.. While they didn't directly mention your name, I think the word democrats also includes you.