RADLEY BALKO WRITES ON FOXNEWS.COM THAT LOTT MUST GO:

Let me be clear. I do think that Trent Lott is a bigot. In a perfect world, he’d have been ousted in the late 1990s when revelations surfaced about his unseemly involvement with the neo-Confederate Council of Conservative Citizens.

But Trent Lott serves in the U.S. Senate, an exclusive club where the collegial atmosphere causes otherwise smart people to give one another benefits of doubts to a fault. And so it’s taken yet another ugly public dustup for the incestuous Beltway media/politico/pundit circle to finally sit up and take notice of Trent Lott’s uglier, prejudiced inclinations (I’m still waiting for them to take notice of Sen. Robert Byrd’s).

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