Date:  Mon, 13 Nov 1995 06:01:13 EST

From:  Sonja Lanehart <LANEHART[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>

Subject: Re: Political Blunder



I still don't understand why the senator felt it necessary to repeat

what the caller said. If he really did hear it as a racial slur I don't

see why he would be so eager to repeat something like that--especially

on a radio talk show where so many people could hear it. I also don't

understand how repeating the slur was a way of reprimanding the caller.

It seems a better rebuke would have been enlightening the caller about

the inappropriateness of such a slur.





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