Posted on 08/30/2006 1:56:05 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Beyond Macaca: The Photograph That Haunts George Allen
by MAX BLUMENTHAL
Barnstorming around Virginia in the re-election campaign that Republican Senator George Allen hopes will provide the impetus for his 2008 run for the presidency, he has suddenly been forced on the defensive. Time and again, he has felt compelled to explain that his mocking of S.R. Sidarth, a young Indian-American staff member for his Democratic opponent, as "macaca," or monkey, was an unintentional gaffe. "It was a mistake. I made a mistake," he told a reporter from a local NBC affiliate at a campaign stop on Thursday. Hours later, he told the ABC affiliate, "It was a mistake, I was wrong." On Fox News's Sean Hannity show, he echoed, "It was a mistake."
But was it an isolated "mistake"?
Only a decade ago, as governor of Virginia, Allen personally initiated an association with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the successor organization to the segregationist White Citizens Council and among the largest white supremacist groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenation.com ...
And not a word on the KuKluxKlown Senator Byrd
No.
This is politics. If Allen can be taken out this early, he will be, because his enemies have no reason NOT to--would we go easy on a democrat if this kind of thing were in his past? No, nor should we.
If he can beat back this crap, he'll be in good shape. If not, why would we want him for a nominee?
May backfire as his name recognition increases.
So, theNation is picking on LaRaza again? Ooops. My mistake.
The uproar is itself a steaming pile of macaca. But it does appear he ain't too bright. Good man, bad judgment, trips over his words. We don't need another one.
Does that surprise you? This is The Nation, after all.
I know, I know. The "D" gives Byrd an immunity from his past. The SPLC is shameless.
This current affair certainly puts the last nail in the coffin of the idea that his opponent, Obergrupenfuhrer Webb, was not the author of the antisemitic attack on his Democrat competitor in the primary this Summer.
This is going to get dirtier.
The media is a tool (Dean's roar). The people that want someone out of the picture just have to drop a dime and it is on.
I await The Nation's call for Democrats to disassociate themselves from their Black Panther connnections in the past. No, I'm not holding my breath.
The social conservatives have raised questions on Allen's pro-life credentials. He proudly owns stock in Barr Pharmeceuticals, the maker of the "Plan B" emergency contraception, and he has made questionable statements on the pro-life issue in the past.
$1.00 U.S. says this photo was taken in a reception line at the NRA event for high dollar contributors and others who bought tickets at CPAC and that Allen and Heston had no idea who any of these guys were.
What? Is KKKleagle leader Byrd in the picture?
Oh, he was merely the Senate Majority Leader for 12 years...
You raise a fair question, but I have no doubt the left will make a lame attempt to rationalize the lionization of the ex-Klansman Byrd with, "but he's not running for president!!!"
Yet, they have no problem with him being senator. Their hypocrisy is astonishing.
Kaktuskid had written:
"And not a word on the KuKluxKlown Senator Byrd"
Macacca means nothing. Macaque is a primate.
He should have called the guy a Hymie. That must be acceptable since that maca..., er, guy Jesse Jackson can say it.
"This is politics. If Allen can be taken out this early, he will be, because his enemies have no reason NOT to--would we go easy on a democrat if this kind of thing were in his past? No, nor should we."
So you are saying we should tolerate leftwing McCarthyite guilt-by-association attacks on GOP politicians, because ... well, because they happen anyway?
My #1 concern is that when we let the politics of presonal destruction work for liberals, they only lust for more of the same. It's very useful and helpful to defang these allegations so this strategy loses its power.
We need to make their allegations lose their power.
And btw, I've heard plenty of liberals call "Bushitler" a chimp and worse, deliberately and with malice aforethought,
so it hypocritical BS on their part to complain about it.
"If he can beat back this crap, he'll be in good shape"
And if not, the media will have their vultures for the other
candidates ... Divorced Guliani, Mormon Mitt Romney, mentally unstable McCain, etc.
HA!
He's damaged goods as much as Gingrich is.
yawn. they can't make me hate this guy.
He's obviously not racist.
Scroll thru the photos yourself:
http://allen.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.PhotoAlbum&ImageGallery_id=94a49625-c04f-730a-03d7-15fd9a7ac429
If this is an example of your reading comprehension, I'm not impressed.
I'm saying exactly the OPPOSITE. I'm saying the left isn't just going to sit on this stuff--neither would we if we had it on them--so it's up to him to FIGHT.
God, learn to read what someone actually writes instead of looking around for an opportunity to get on your high horse.
OK who has the video clip of Fred Phelps and Bill Clinton?
George Allen BUMP.
I'll support him if for no other reason than to stick a thumb in the eye of the communist media, which hounds conservatives when it thinks they have made a slip of the tongue (George Allen, Trent Lott, etc. ad nauseum) but are unconcerned with the likes of Jesse ("HymieTown") Jackson, Ray ("Chocolate City")Nagin, and all the rest of the left-wing figures it supports.
But I have to say his handling of the whole macaca affair indicates to me he's not ready for prime time.
CCC was Disk Gephardt's group.
Compared to Senator Byrd who has his own set of kkk sheets?
I assume that they're afraid of him.
You are exactly right. Allen needs to show his toughness and fortitude now, and I think he will. I still don't see him losing to Little Jimmy Webb
The Smirking Chimp is one of the main Bush-bashing sites on the web! Is it only racist to call a medium-toned Asian- Caucasian a monkey and not a light-skinned European one?
Their logo proudly mixes a monkey image and a bush image. Can't get much clearer than that.
And even more damning The Nation is linked directly from the racist Smirking Chimp site:
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/links.php?op=viewlink&cid=7&min=60&orderby=titleA&show=10.
I await the denunciation of this racist site by the Nation editors and a request from their lawyers to remove this link!
I don't want him to say a word. It takes him 3 hours to read a 10 minute floor speech.
Good post.
Well, no, they're going after Allen because he's pictured with RACISTS.
It is a GREAT opportunity being handed him. He should get on the tube and talk about the silly "controversies" and show how the left are trying to kill his candidacy in the crib. Not only will it show what he's made of, it will help his re-election chances. I mean, come ON, let's see some Republicans with some balls kicking back at these liberal [*]!
[*] I tried three different "clean" descriptions of them here, and failed. I'll go with "alternative lifestyle practitioners".
It's also racist in their mind to call a hard working Guatemalan immigrant, "a good little Guatemalan".
Nor the famous antisemites Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Me too.
Michael Moore made the allegation in Bowling For Columbine.
great points all around
It's going to take someone articulate and coherent to undo all that. A business as usual handler-directed candidate will not win from the Elephant side in '08. Thus I think we need to look further. McCain, not one of my favorites either, is at least good on camera and sounds like he knows what he's talking about most of the time.
Allen's "Jeffersonian/ Jacksonian" is a bizarre formulation. Like Bush's "compassionate conservatism" we don't know what it means. That's intentional. It's a semi-clever little tag line that has focus-group tested well, I imagine.
We're going to need a lot more than that to win. We deserve a lot more than another big-government Republican who is like "The Candidate". I'm not sure we can find that person, but I'm motivated to look beyond Allen.
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