Senators Blame Talk Radio for the Hostility of Americans Towards Them

Republican Senators are blaming talk radio for the anger and threatening messages (ex. Richard Burr received a message, saying the caller knows where he lives) they are the receiving from their constituents. They are playing the race card, hinting immigration opponents are racist. Many won't openly criticize talk radio out of fear but they share Senator Trent Lott's sentiments. It is clear these Senators are confronting an issue as divisive as its ancestor slavery was.

In their own words:

Senator Lindsay Graham from South Carolina said, “there’s racism in this debate. Nobody likes to talk about it, but a very small percentage of people involved in this debate really have racial and bigoted remarks. The tone that we create around these debates, whether it be rhetoric in a union hall or rhetoric on talk radio, it can take people who are on the fence and push them over emotionally.” Graham said, "we've been down this road before -- 'no Catholics,' 'no Jews,' 'Irish need not apply.'"

Senator Trent Lott from Mississippi said, “talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.”

Senator Lindsay Graham forgets that most Americans are upset at illegal immigration regardless of the color of the skin the immigrant has. He is as disconnected from morality as were the plantation owners of his home state in the slavery era, using slaves as cheap labor, doing jobs Americans wouldn't do for slave wages. Everyone knows how racist Senator Trent Lott is. I personally wouldn't be surprised if things turned violent like in the old Roman Republic or like the American Civil War between the abolitionist (nativist) and slaveholders (neoslaveholders).