I think I’m with Rod. But I do find this process agonizing and the opportunism of the “civil rights community” disgusting. One thing I think television media must do is play the extended clip of Lott’s comments. We learned after the fact from the full Rodney King video that the situation was much more complicated than it seemed. If we’re going to see the Lott video 8 billion times, we should at least see the jokes he told before and after his Thurmond comments to get a sense of the man’s levity. I still want Lott gone, but we don’t need to cooperate in national myth-making.