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DEL.ICIO.USWe’ve got to stop doing Neal Boortz’ research for him
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Late last week, while dissecting the difficulty of gathering votes for the immigration reform bill, U.S. Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) ticked off the Limbaugh-Hannity-Boortz triangle.
“Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem,” Lott groused.
Apparently, the senator was dissatisfied with the hole he’d dug himself. Too snug. So he kept on shoveling today, making his new home a little wider and deeper, in this article from the Biloxi, Miss., Sun-Herald.
The topic was goats. And immigration reform. We think.
Said Lott:
”If the answer is ‘build a fence’ I’ve got two goats on my place in Mississippi. There ain’t no fence big enough, high enough, strong enough, that you can keep those goats in that fence.”
“Now people are at least as smart as goats,” Lott continued. “Maybe not as agile. Build a fence. We should have a virtual fence. Now one of the ways I keep those goats in the fence is I electrified them. Once they got popped a couple of times they quit trying to jump it.”
“I’m not proposing an electrified goat fence,” Lott added quickly, “I’m just trying, there’s an analogy there.”
And the flak he’s taken from talk radio?
“I keep trying to tell everybody, ‘Calm down, calm down. Let me be the one that offends the left, the middle and the right.’ I’m doing great, aren’t I? But it gives you a level of utopia that is just so blissful.”
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By Chris
June 21, 2007 2:11 PM | Link to this
I love Lott.
I wish that we had more politicians that would say what they think. The problem is that since everyone here is going to disagree with Lott, they are going to slam him. But at least he has principles and morals and sticks to them. Unlike our Senators that know what is good for the country but pander to the rednecks in Georgia in order to keep their job.
For once, we have a few senators, Graham, Lott, McCain that are willing to through away their careers over something they believe in (whether right or wrong). And what happens? They get slammed by the same people who complained that the Clintons had no principals and made decisions with their fingers in the wind.
By Rachel Piggot
June 21, 2007 3:34 PM | Link to this
Wow. I have only heard “I love Trent Lott” at my klan meetings. I don’t know no Chris there…. Hmmmmmmm
By Barry
June 21, 2007 3:45 PM | Link to this
Lott’s a traitor. And btw, Chris, your derogatory use of “redneck” is racist. It’s not ok to pick on people just because they’re white Southerners.
The Bush/Kennedy/Kyl/McCain/Lott illegal alien amnesty bill must go down.
And then Lott must go down.
By Tony
June 21, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
Barry must be a card carrying member of the AFL-CIO because his comments on the immigration bill are theirs as well. Good to see you spouting the union line Barry.
By zombieboy
June 21, 2007 6:42 PM | Link to this
Viva La Hilary en 2008!!
La Amnestia por los hombres y las chicas!!
Arriba, arriba!!!
By deegee
June 21, 2007 10:04 PM | Link to this
Talk radio is running the right and the right can’t wait to vote for a guy whose only credential is that he’s a good actor on TV. Beautiful.
By tim Raymond
June 22, 2007 9:01 AM | Link to this
Barry -
The term “redneck” may be deragatory, but it isn’t racist. Caucasian is a race; and it includes rednecks, yankees and white trash.
By Greg
June 25, 2007 3:54 PM | Link to this
So, let me get this straight…a man who is up front about his admiration of Jefferson Davis thinks first in terms of people as livestock…
Electrocuting poor people on the border would not make for a good image beyond our borders.