Yesterday on CNN I joked that Mitch McConnell’s indefensible position on Trent Lott is that this is nothing but the “high tech lynching of an uppity segregationist.” Everyone laughed, except Julianne Malveaux who took the opportunity to lecture me on how irresponsible I was for using the word “lynching.” I found this odd since she’d just called Trent Lott a Klansman, Judge Pickering too. I told her I wouldn’t let her mau-mau me which in turn caused her to call me “two steps from Trent Lott” — who she considers a Klansmen. Anyway, the transcript really doesn’t do it justice, but I thought some people might be interested in what I have to put up with.