Slur Shows Presidential Hopeful Unworthy

Times Union ^ | 8/22/06

[AppyPappy]

I'm just a bit shocked by the harshness of it that's all.

You must be new here then

[Corin Stormhands]

Except Mr. Allen is French-descended, according to wikipedia (yes, wikipedia could be very inaccurate).

ohfercryinoutloud...

Do you honestly think that a 20+ year veteran of public office, who has been under attack for years with the RATS trying to label him as a racist would stare into a flippin' camera and use a term he "knew" to be a racial slur???

c'mon, use that gray matter between your ears.

[areafiftyone]

Believe me if Allen wins I will be rooting for him. I'll root for anyone who wins. The only one I will have to hold my nose for is McCain if he wins. But I'll still vote for him. I don't want a Dem in the White House.

[claudiustg]

---It is a Racial Slur for Arabs. It means the "N" word.---

If you go to Wikipedia, which is the only place I can find macaca listed as a racial slur, and hit the history tab, you'll see that the definition of macaca as a racial slur only starts on 17Aug06. That's the way it appears anyway.

Is this just a convenient invention of the left?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaca_%28slur%29

[photodawg]

Again, "macaca" is not a racial slur. In the colloquial Ladino dialect of Tunisian Sephardic Jews it means "someone who harasses, who annoys"



"This fellow over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca or whatever his name is, he's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere." Allen said. "Let's give a welcome to Macaca here."
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I love this comment and I have a new interest and respect for Allen. His purpose for the comment was not only to ridicule the infiltrator, but to show his lack of concern for his opponents tactics. He knew he was being taped, and rather than have the man removed from the audience he "performed" for the camera in a "take that", fearless fashion.
The media is playing this like Allen was exposed as a racist by unwittingly making a racist comment. He did nothing of the sort. He exposed his opponent as a trivial, sneaky, dirty trickster trying to stifle Allen's message by selectively airing taped cuts of one of his speeches. thanks for the definition of macaca, I've added it to my vocabulary and use it when my grown children try to hit me up for some cash. As in "not a chance macaca." (smile)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

It's odd. There can be sudden bouts of rudeness over one topic, when the same topic on another thread does not bring out that rudeness.

[Hand em their arse]

Yup, and interestingly you only see the quote from her playful little "Ghandi" speech on FR... Hmm, I wonder why that is? I mean the MSM is so unbiased, right? / sarcasm


"During an event here for Senate candidate Nancy Farmer, Clinton introduced a quote from Gandhi by saying, "He ran a gas station down in St. Louis..."

[onyx]

I bumped his one comment because your posting of this hit piece after the thread yesterday appeared to me like you were fanning the flames. I like you personally.

[onyx]

I believe you. Thanks.

[firewalk]

If you go to Wikipedia, which is the only place I can find macaca listed as a racial slur, and hit the history tab, you'll see that the definition of macaca as a racial slur only starts on 17Aug06. That's the way it appears anyway.

Is this just a convenient invention of the left?

That's very interesting...

[mewzilla]

Rather ironic that Hillary made the same type of slur.

More than once.

Did the paper say the same thing about her...?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

It is improbable that he considered himself to be using a racial slur, but there is a chance that he could have, or it could have been a Freudian slip. French Tunisian is in his family, and he can apparently use French.

[goldstategop]

Can't be cussed about illegal aliens. Anyway, it goes on the show George Allen is just another racist, fascist, nativist, sexist and homophobic extreme right wing Repuklican. He's dead, Jim.

( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[doug from upland]

They are clearing the way for Hillary, just as I predicted.

[Corin Stormhands]

*whatever*

[onyx]

August 17, 2006 -- new racial slur is born.
Got it.

[WV Mountain Mama]

Insulting people is bad, but assaulting women is perfectly OK for a future president.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You're being sort of hypocritical. You rush to stop rudeness toward areafiftyone, but are then rude yourself (granted, you aren't smearing the troll label all over).

[steveyp]

He should of told him to go F himself.

[Smokin' Joe]

Let's see, NOT metrosexual enough to know that His haircut is a molette, a modified mohawk, but not properly defined as one.

But worldly enough to use an obscure (for most of us) maybe degrading term correctly. That alone sounds like a good start.

As for His father is a big Democratic contributor., it sounds as if he is able to identify the opposition as well.

I have reached the point where I do not give a diddley damn what the pantywaist liberals think--let 'em whine.

The sooner the rest of us get to that point, the better.

We will have to take the same attitude with the WOT and the world in general before it is over, or we will likely not survive.