To the reader who supplied the tape that forced Trent Lott’s resignation as Majority Leader. Lost your email, got a message for you. Contact me. (Those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about the short story is that Trent Lott resigned after that tape passed through this website and was run on MSNBC. Oddly this crucial coup-de-grace is never mentioned in summaries of the incident, which just credit the blogs, usually Josh Marshall. Josh recognized the significance of Lott’s comments about the desirability of a Thurmond presidency immediately, and the blogs kept the story alive, but what brought Lott down was one TMW reader in the midwest with a long memory and a tape of Lott making exactly the same comment several years prior. But that doesn’t fit so neatly into the power-of-blogs narrative that’s been constructed since.)