Happy Trent Lott Appreciation Day!
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Famous racist Trent Lott is, more or less, a god. He may not be a senator anymore, and he may not like black people — I mean, HE REALLY HATES THEM! — but he definitely was, you know, a legislator for many years. To honor his legacy, various county chambers of commerce in Mississippi are honoring him today with “Trent Lott Appreciation Day.” Hooray! MORE »
Famous racist Trent Lott is, more or less, a god. He may not be a senator anymore, and he may not like black people — I mean, HE REALLY HATES THEM! — but he definitely was, you know, a legislator for many years. To honor his legacy, various county chambers of commerce in Mississippi are honoring him today with “Trent Lott Appreciation Day.” Hooray! MORE »









Clues for Discovering Closet Fascists: Do they complain that the Senate is bad without Trent Lott and John Breaux? Do they say “it must be no fun with you guys gone”? Do they say “I would like to be a Senator if I could hang out with you guys”? Do they call Trent Lott and John Breaux “great veteran political heroes and legends of the Senate”?? Maybe if Trent had never resigned, Chris Matthews wouldn’t have had all these
After Trent Lott announced his
Yesterday evening, your editors got more than a dozen breathless tips that the “real” reason Trent was resigning was that he was about to be outed in a gay sex scandal. We had a number of reasons that we didn’t post it, including: one of us felt Trent was too cheap to pay for it, even if he wanted it; we all agreed not even a closeted gay man would wear his hair like that; we’d
With Lott’s “surprise” resignation announcement today, the real question is who will take over the seat by appointment until January 2009?
A show of hands for who believes that Trent Lott really resigned to spend more time with his family or whatever! No one, right? In that vein, we begin the irresponsible rumor-mongering list of the real reason for Trent’s resignation after the jump.