would voters even believe that she was joking? well, a comment, look, i don t understand the entire context but it certainly was a bad joke. it was insensitive. i don t think it s going to affect her race. i take her at her word it was a bad joke. it was a dump thing to say. she said also something about attending a public hanging. same kind of thing. just mistakes. i don t think it s going to affect the outcome of that election. i want to play the one you re talking about where she praised a man she was campaigning with talking about public hangings. here it is. if he invited me to a public hanging i d be on the front row. i mean, hillary, this election is less than two weeks. do you think these charlie says he doesn t think these gaffes will affect the outcome. what do you think of this. mike espy running against her has gotten more votes than anybody thought he would get. he s been a fairly popular
perdue made the comment about cotton-picking in relation to the florida race. at least that s an expression. if not one that politicians should use. this is just out of nowhere makes you wonder what senator hyde-smith is thinking. so just to wrap it up, i think that we re it s unfortunate republicans can t get a handle on this. charlie? well, look, i would have to say this. if you re running for office for senate or governor, you have to choose your words very carefully particularly if you re down south and using certain terms like those public hangings, voter suppression, you should know better. like i said, i don t think these are huge issues to be quite honest. these are gaffes. and they re not public hanging even in the context congressman, a public hanging even not in the context of race is not really, you know yeah, it was a dumb thing to say. i mean i hope that this brings out african-american voters in a way that we haven t seen yet in mississippi.
controversy over voter suppression and selection, why would voters even believe that she was joking? well, a comment look, i don t understand the entire context but it certainly was a bad joke. it was insensitive. i don t think it s going to affect her race. i take her at her word it was a joke, it was a bad joke. it was a dumb thing to say. she said something that was also very inartful a few weeks ago about attending a public hanging. same kind of thing. just mistakes. i don t think it s going to affect the outcome of that election. i want to play the one you re talking about where she praised a man she was campaigning with talking about public hangings. here it is. if he invited me to a public hanging i d be on the front row. i mean, hilary, this election is less than two weeks. do you think these charlie says he doesn t think these gaffes will affect the outcome. what do you think of this. mike espy running against her has gotten more votes than anybody thought he wou
two black opponents and then we have two southern white politicians and somehow these racially charged terms make their way into these campaigns and they act like it s nothing. oh, i talk that way every day. no, they don t. i ve never heard that expression before and in mississippi, mississippi, which was, you know, the state arguably the worst state in terms of lynching of african-americans, there were public hangings in mississippi. they were grotesque sort of celebrations almost of the murder of black men and women. it s just astounding. it sounds incredibly tone deaf, of course, but it s not tone
even if she meant no harm, what do you make of her comment? reporter: you know, it almost echoes some of the comments we ve heard in some of these other races in the south. you think of the florida governor s race and the race in georgia as well, with and we see in mississippi a similar dynamic, a contest between the old south and the new soektd. i think white southerners sometimes have a convenient amnesia. she s talking about a public hanging, and public hangings were quite common in the south up into the middle part of the last century, and so it s disturbing to hear it. in many ways i think it brings