Trent Mouth?

Trent Mouth?
A senator that I had been fond of is quoted in the NY Times as saying:

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Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: "Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem."
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OooooooooK. *Pauses for a moment thinking about how many ways this is a dumb and unhelpful comment.*

"Talk radio" is running America? Is anyone running America? That's news to me. God sure isn't running the country, as God is being eliminated from the public square and freely ridiculed by idiots. Military genius isn't running the country, because the USA and its allies invaded Iraq (20 years too late) and didn't do just a regime change, but instead disbanded the army, police, and political party that could have kept the glue of Iraq together. Scholars are not running the country because there is no pause between a question (to go do some research and then opine) and blather. Manufacturers are not running the country, because the USA has forgotten how to make anything except maybe pulp fiction. Farmers are not running the country, because they are fighting to even survive (unless they grow corn for ethanol, of course.) Law is not running the country because they are busy gouging legal fees with little consideration of honesty and justice. So "talk radio" is running the country? This part is being said in my Yiddish aunt's accent "We should be so lucky that someone is running the country.....!"

Senator Lott. I suggest that the USA has a whole lot of problems (as I sit here and watch part of a bridge being built after hurricane Katrina's destruction tumble into the Bay of St Louis, killing two workers) a WHOLE LOTT (pun intended) more important than suppressing freedom of speech more than it already is through political correctness and persecution by secularists. Stop blaming people for exercising free speech (and I sure don't agree with everything I hear on talk radio, but I listen, and use my brain, what a concept.) If you need a list I could provide one of, oh, say, three hundred more important "problems" to be dealt with than "talk radio," all of them serious enough to cost us our country.

Oh, and if you all are having so much trouble with the immigration bill, how about breaking it into pieces and starting with securing the borders first? Fund it and do it. Sheesh.