ASMAN: You’re the chairman of the rules committee. Did Senator Frist have the votes to end the filibuster?<\/p>\n
LOTT: I believe that he did. It would have been very close. We would have probably gotten a 50-50 tie vote, with the vice president breaking the tie. Perhaps we’d have had 51 before it was over. …<\/p>\n
ASMAN: So, Senator, if we should have done it and if we had the votes to do it<\/b> in the Senate — if you guys in the Republican Party did — then why did you need a compromise?<\/p>\n
LOTT: Well, you know, I would argue that we probably should have gone forward with the vote, all things considered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We know Fox News personalities see themselves as being “teammates” of Republican officials, but it’s rare when they admit it on national television.<\/p>\n
The “fair and balanced” network strikes again. They report, you concur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the unlikely event you haven’t seen this elsewhere, I wanted to highlight one of the more amusing Freudian slips in a long while, by way of our friends at the Fox News Channel. Media Matters reported that Fox News anchor David Asman was interviewing Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) yesterday, inquiring as to why the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}