Trent Lott: Choose Your Joke

Dammit, I hate when a quote is so magnificently dumbass you get joke overflow. Essentially, caught between the straight punch or satiric echoing. The quote via the delightfully improbable Majikthise:

“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“[CNN] [emphasis mine - Ed.]

Your choices:

A.)

“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“[CNN]

This man is a Senator? If this guy said --

“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Northern Irish and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Catholics kill Protestants? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“[CNN]

-- which is the exact same statement -- if he spouted that at your Saturday barbecue, you'd immediately classify him as a fucking simpleton. And remember this: Trent Lott has been a Senator a long time. Compared to George Bush, he's the experienced one in foreign policy.

Run for the US Senate and Congress: For when you're not quite smart enough to make a living with your law degree.

B.)

“It’s hard for Americans, all of us, including me, to understand what’s wrong with these people,” he said. “Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israeli’s and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.“[CNN]

"... however, hating and killing a man because he looks different, like, say, because he's black ... I totally get that."

C.)

Bonus quote, from the same interview:

“No, none of that,” Lott told reporters after the session when asked if the Iraq war was discussed. “You’re [the media] the only ones who obsess on that. We don’t and the real people out in the real world don’t for the most part.“

... in a just world, every parent with a kid in Iraq would get thirty seconds to beat Senator Lott like a pinata.