From Daily Kos, in the comments for Kos' post on Trent Lott, Southern Racist:

g. nelson:

I'm contrasting the news coverage of this with that following the Wellstone memorial. Someone remind me once again why it wasn't perfectly appropriate to boo Trent Lott (and others) who had absolutely no business being there because I've quite forgotten.

Well said.

From the post itself, Kos sums up another point rather nicely:

The best thing the Democratic Party ever did was get rid of assholes like Strom Thurmond.