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Actor Reiner Criticizes Senate Majority Leader At CTFK Dinner
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Actor Rob Reiner ripped into Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) at a reception sponsored by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids last week. "He's the guy who led the effort to kill McCain's tobacco bill, and here he is talking about how he's trying to keep kids off tobacco," Reiner said, according to sources in the room. He added that Lott had "serious balls" to show up at the event. Lott wasn't in the room to hear Reiner's comments, but Lott spokesperson John Czwartacki said, "If 'Meathead' has anything to say to Senator Lott, he should put it in writing." Sources said Lott attended the dinner because his brother-in-law, attorney Richard Scruggs, was receiving an award. Tobacco-Free Kids President Bill Novelli said that Reiner's comments were "inappropriate and out of place."
Source: Ed Henry, "Lott vs. 'Meathead'," ROLL CALL (on-line), April 30, 1999.