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"Senator Trent Lott, who was ousted from the Senate leadership four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive, won election Wednesday, as the Senate Minority Whip. But Lott was disappointed to learn this doesn't mean he gets to whip minorities." --Seth Myers

"Trent Lott has regained a position of leadership. He was the former majority leader who lost his post for racially insensitive commentary. I believe he mentioned that Strom Thurmond in 1948, who ran as a segregationist candidate, should have won. ... But now, sound the irony alarm. He has recaptured a position and his position -- I kid you not -- in the Senate will be minority whip. So, my guess is he takes to that job like, let's say, white on rice." --Jon Stewart

"Yesterday in a 25 to 24 vote, Republicans welcomed back Lott back into their leadership and named him minority whip. That is great for Trent. They say minority whip is a stepping stone to Grand Wizard." --Stephen Colbert

"It's not looking good for Trent Lott. You have to know you're in trouble when President Bush starts criticizing you for misspeaking." -Jay Leno

"Trent Lott has found himself in a lot of trouble over his comments (about segregation)...Keep in mind Lott only says this kind of stuff once every 22 years. We like to think of him as the Halley's Comet of bigotry." -Jon Stewart

"Last night Trent Lott appeared on the Black Entertainment Network and he apologized. He was sincere about this. He said he no longer feels the bigotry and prejudice that he felt last week." -David Letterman

"It looks like the guy likely to replace Lott is Tennessee Senator Bill Frist, who was a heart transplant surgeon before he came to the Senate. Being a heart surgeon, he knew exactly where to plunge the dagger." -Jay Leno

"When Robert Kennedy ran for president, we supported him. We're proud of it. And if he had lived and been elected, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years." -Bill Clinton, getting in a dig at Trent Lott

"New information is starting to emerge about Trent Lott's past. Forty years ago he led the fight to keep blacks out of his fraternity, Phi Beta Cracker. Now, he's part of an exclusively white club, the U.S. Senate." -Jay Leno

"I love the after-Christmas sales. Today I got a good price on a DVD boxed set of Trent Lott apologies." -David Letterman

"Trent Lott's going to fight. He said today 'I've had to fight my whole life.' And he has fought against the Voting Act, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, the Civil Rights Act - it's a never ending battle." -Jay Leno

"That's why I think the government has been running such a huge deficit. Trent Lott didn't want it operating in the black." -Jay Leno

"Earlier tonight Trent Lott appeared on BET, the black entertainment network because these days for a lot of folks Trent Lott is black entertainment. It's a new show on BET called 'Cracker Talk.' In fact Trent Lott appeared using his rap name, Old Racist Bastard." -Jay Leno

"Earlier tonight, Trent Lott appeared on BET. That's like Winona Ryder working as a security guard at Saks Fifth Avenue" -David Letterman

"Another fantastic holiday special is in the works. In this one, an angel comes down from heaven and shows Trent Lott what the world would have been like if Strom Thurmond had been elected president." -David Letterman

"Trent Lott said his remarks were a mistake of the head and not the heart. No, that rabid squirrel hairpiece you wear is a mistake of the head." -David Letterman

"The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party." -Tina Fey

"It's not looking good for Trent Lott. When you can stand next to a guy who's turning 100 and look worse, that's not a good sign." -Jay Leno

"This just in - U.N. inspector Hans Blix has declared Trent Lott's mouth a biological weapon." -David Letterman

"One Republican leader said what Trent Lott did was a mistake of the mouth and not of the heart. Today, former President Clinton said, why didn't I think of that?" -Jay Leno

"Are you like me and just glad that Strom Thurmond isn't alive to see all this?" -David Letterman

~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman