Not Your Sweetie

Joe Conason: Gore's moral victory

Al Gore proved his moral courage
yesterday. He didn't hesitate to say that he opposed Trent Lott's racist
speech,
that Lott had to withdraw those remarks,
and that if Lott failed to do so, the Senate should censure the
Republican
leader. Having endured so many venomous
attacks from a press that is openly biased against him and would surely
relish another chance to sting him, Gore
spoke out fearlessly. (It is also a triumph for him over his tormentors
in
the press. With some honorable exceptions,
they waited too long to speak up against Lott's nostalgia for the
barbarism of his political forebears.)