Democracy Now! December 22, 1998

Trent Lott and Bob Barr – Coucil of Conservative Citizens
|(14 Minutes) Trent Lott and Bob Barr – Coucil of Conservative Citizens With threats of more revelations on the sex lives of Congressmen, Democracy Now exposes who else they are in bed with. A look at Representative Bob Barr and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott relationship with the latter day racist white Citizens Council. GUEST: Gordon Lee Baum, CEO of the council of Conservative Citizens. GUEST: Arnie Watson, uncle of Sen. Trent Lott, former State Senator, WWII veteran and member of the Council of Conservative Citizens. Rep. Cynthis McKinney, (D-GA), who has denounced Barr’s and Lott’s connections to the CCC saying about Barr that “hypocrisy seems alive and well in the Seventh Distric of Georgia.” GUEST: Mark Potok, Editor of the Quarterly Intelligence Report for the Southern Poverty Law Center, and co-author of the report on the CCC. TAPE OF: Bob Barrr Speech, delivered at a 6/6 CCC conference in Charleston, SC.