Senator Trent Lott talks tripe - interview on BBC Radio 4 "Today"

[Benbow]

See the item, below, at 08:10 (08:10 is the prime interview slot on this programme). Please, please let not one brick be laid of Lott's new house until every single other person displaced by Katrina has a new home. By the end of this short talk with Lott, you can hear horror and incredulity in the interviewer's voice, at what is coming out of the Senator's mouth.

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0709 Adam Brooke in New Orleans and Michael Buchanan in Texas bring us the latest on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

0718 Foreign oil reserves is to be made available to the US in Katrina's wake. Guto Harri reports.

0725 Ex-US Army engineer Mike Parker says it could take eighty days to drain the flood water from New Orleans.

0736 Adam Brooke looks at the rescue efforts in New Orleans. We speak to Major David Waite of Alabama's Salvation Army about the crisis.

0810 US Senate leader Trent Lott, who himself lost his home during Hurricane Katrina talks to us about the devastation.

0842 Psychologist Dr Aric Sigman tells us why people have turned to violence amidst the horrors in New Orleans.

0846 We reflect on how Katrina's legacy may be reflected for years to come through blues music.

0854 Natural disasters have often been reflected in popular culture and song. how will Katrina be remembered? Mark Coles reports.

[izzie]

1. When I get that stuff on my shoe I hose it off and leave it out side.

:crazy:

[Eugene]

2. The reporter had to save Lott from himself at the end.

Lott started gibbering about ethnicity when he got cut off.
He was a complete fool and an embarassment.