| In
no way desperate to get an interview with anybody, just anybody, while
covering Scotland Week in the US, BBC Scotland hack Glen Campbell
managed to get ex-Senator Trent Lott in front of a microphone.
Mr
Lott, who obligingly instituted Tartan Day (as was) ten years ago
while still a politician, just as obligingly gave Glen couple of
soft-pitch quotes about the proposed referendum on Scotland's constitutional
future.
"Let
the people decide" is Trent's reasonable take on the matter,
a view that Glen, perhaps somewhat charitably, describes as "interesting."
And there it lies, Glen gets his interview, files his copy and everyone
goes home happy.
Er,
no.
For
one wonders if the Trent Lott Glen interviewed, is in any way related
to the ex-Mississippi senator who voted against pro-Afro-American
legislation and tried to veto the creation of Martin Luther King
Day among his other (ahem) "unusual" attempts to better
the lot of his coloured brethren?
I
fear he's one and the same.
One
can only therefore assume that Mr Lott, much given to lecturing
on the need to "educate" the electorate on matters of
import, is sanctioning the Scottish referendum on the grounds that
there are unlikely to be large numbers of "nigras" exercising
the franchise.
You
see, gentlemen like Trent are all for democracy providing you only
let the right people have the vote. There might be an excuse for
Trent because he's just a racist wanker with a bad wig, but there's
no excuse for Glen letting the copy go through without making mention
of Trent's previous in the area of matters democratic.
Looking
for a feel-good story to chime in with "everyone thinks the
Scots are really nice" shtick that permeates the coverage of
the Scotland Week just gone is no excuse for failing to obey the
first rule to be followed by journalists - tell the punters what
you know, all of it …
Shame
on you Glen.
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