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...also referred to former Senator Trent Lott??s 2002 scandal as “a disgusting affair...
...groveling performance on BET, which I forced myself to watch,” Thernstrom said, referring to Lott??s high-profile cable-TV interview...
...art—its political capital apart from its aesthetic value. Many of the students who supported the right of both poets to speak cited artistic license and linguistic elasticity as reasons for reading their poems with a grain of salt. From the mouth of a politician (witness Trent Lott??s quick demise), a poem like “Somebody blew up America” would be defamation; in the voice of a poet, it remains shielded by the nomenclature of Art. As much as our experiences might teach us otherwise, more often than not our educations keep...
...liberalism has led this country down the wrong path at every turn. Trent Lott??s premise was right: the world would be better if it had more Strom Thurmonds in positions of power to champion conservative values. But there is hope. President Bush has not let conservatives like me down yet. He supports model institutions like Bob Jones University, model citizens like the loving preacher the Rev. Jerry Falwell and model memorials to the last true American gentlemen—the Confederate war heroes. So don’t lose hope. Just as liberalism is the history...
Many messages reflected current world issues, with calls for disarmament, peace and an end to the global AIDS epidemic, while others noted continuing racial inequality in America amid controversies over affirmative action in education and Sen. Trent Lott??s past support of segregation...