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Webb Denies Ever Using Word as Epithet (But Terrorizes Watts?)
WashingtonPost.com ^ | 09-28-06 | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 09/29/2006 4:17:30 AM PDT by Flora McDonald

Webb's comments to the Times-Dispatch prompted Allen campaign officials to direct a reporter to Dan Cragg, a former acquaintance of Webb's, who said Webb used the word while describing his own behavior during his freshman year at the University of Southern California in the early 1960s. Webb later transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Cragg, 67, who lives in Fairfax County, said on Wednesday that Webb described taking drives through the black neighborhood of Watts, where he and members of his ROTC unit used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at blacks to scare them.

"They would hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts with these buddies of his," Cragg said Webb told him. "They would take the rifles down there. They would call then [epithets], point the rifles at them, pull the triggers and then drive off laughing. One night, some guys caught them and beat . . . them. And that was the end of that."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: election2006; georgeallen; ithascometothisthen; jimwebb; senate2006; virginia
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I guess this explains the unabated racial attacks on Senator George Allen. Webb knew this was coming down the pike and launched a pre-emptive strike.
1 posted on 09/29/2006 4:17:31 AM PDT by Flora McDonald
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Webb can't deny this the essence of this bumper sticker. The Bumper Sticker is courtesy of the great Rushbo and his golden EIB.

2 posted on 09/29/2006 4:20:31 AM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: Flora McDonald

Webb obviously wants this position of power very badly and seems to have the liberal method of operation, do whatever it takes to get what he wants.

This whole mess is sickening and Webb has tainted his persona as a spoiled destructive two year old.


3 posted on 09/29/2006 4:26:51 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Flora McDonald

The important thing is that we're all focused on the real issues.


4 posted on 09/29/2006 4:28:03 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Flora McDonald
"Webb knew this was coming down the pike and launched a pre-emptive strike."

That's what it looks like to me.

5 posted on 09/29/2006 4:31:38 AM PDT by A Citizen Reporter ("And you got that little smirk on your face, and you think you're so clever!")
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To: A Citizen Reporter

Me, too. I will be gone for a chunk of the day, today. Friday's are a good day for Rats dumping bad news, so ping me if anything develops, please!


6 posted on 09/29/2006 4:33:58 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look over Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Miss Marple

Will do. Battle station manned! LOL.


7 posted on 09/29/2006 4:36:06 AM PDT by A Citizen Reporter ("And you got that little smirk on your face, and you think you're so clever!")
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To: Mr.Smorch
Thought it a great slogan when Rush mentioned this. . .is this now actually a bumper sticker; have not gone to his sight lately. . .

OR. . .a 'replica' of what could be a bumper sticker ? :^)

. . .because I want one!

8 posted on 09/29/2006 4:37:08 AM PDT by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .)
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How much do you want to bet if this story goes further, and is proven right, the media will be stressing how Webb was a REPUBLICAN not long ago and that he served in the Reagan administration??

Hard to believe he would run for office knowing he had a secret this big to hide. But then maybe he figured the media and the Dems would cover for him as long as he was now one of them.


9 posted on 09/29/2006 4:37:39 AM PDT by TNCMAXQ
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To: Flora McDonald

If you want to know what Democrats are doing, just listen to what they accuse the Republicans of doing.


10 posted on 09/29/2006 4:38:37 AM PDT by Samwise (All that is needed for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.)
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To: cricket
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11 posted on 09/29/2006 4:39:12 AM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: Just mythoughts

You're giving liberals too much credit. Politicians are a generally scurvy lot regardless of ideology.


12 posted on 09/29/2006 4:42:52 AM PDT by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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A pre-emtive strike was not enough . . .they make it worse; a genuine character assassination by lying/false embellisment and creating of 'facts'. (Surely the horse-head was something saved for one of Webb's books. . .as perhaps were some other 'recalled incidents'. . .

(I am particularly interested in the role Larry Sabato has played in all this. . .hope never to see him again on Fox News contributing his political analysis and 'wisdom'. . .)

But. . .alas, perhaps I am judging prematurely. . .

13 posted on 09/29/2006 4:46:37 AM PDT by cricket (Live Liberal free. . .or suffer their consequences. . .)
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To: Wolfie

Don't be silly. Who wants to focus on issues?


14 posted on 09/29/2006 4:47:14 AM PDT by elc (Feeling the babywearing love)
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To: TNCMAXQ
"Hard to believe he would run for office knowing he had a secret this big to hide."

Not hard. The RATS are very weak on National security, so they are desparate for people with Webb's resume.

15 posted on 09/29/2006 4:56:21 AM PDT by A Citizen Reporter ("And you got that little smirk on your face, and you think you're so clever!")
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To: Flora McDonald

THOUGHTS:

--You suspect of others what you know to be true of yourself

---I went to Compton Jr. College, 1959-1961. If Webb said he did this, he is lying. There was overt resentment and hate for "Honkies". I drove through Watts one time in my 49 Ford. I was cursed, had bottles thrown at me, and was almost rammed by another car.


16 posted on 09/29/2006 5:21:43 AM PDT by radar101
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To: radar101
You are absolutely right about whites going to Watts in the 60's. If this is true then Webb was a fool. He is already a huge embarrassment to the NAVY!
17 posted on 09/29/2006 5:30:12 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: Mr.Smorch

Now! this a bumper sticker that I might be willing to put on my car!


18 posted on 09/29/2006 5:31:34 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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Let me know when you make up your mind.

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19 posted on 09/29/2006 5:33:14 AM PDT by AdvisorB
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To: Flora McDonald

What a sad commentary on the state of retail politics at the federal level: a Senatorial election focused on what might have been said forty years ago. I guess there are no substantive issues facing this country in the near future.


20 posted on 09/29/2006 5:42:24 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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