New Report that Senator Uttered Slurs

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/us/politics/27allen.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 — Another acquaintance of Senator George Allen said Tuesday that she heard him use a racial slur in 1976, contradicting a statement he made Monday in an effort to tamp down similar accusations.

Mr. Allen’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, called the account by the woman, Ellen G. Hawkins, “another false accusation.”

Mr. Allen, a Virginia Republican whose re-election campaign has been knocked off balance by the accusations, said Monday that he did not remember ever using the term and that “it is absolutely false that that was ever part of my vocabulary.”

Mrs. Hawkins, who described herself as a rural Virginia housewife and an active Democrat, said in an interview Tuesday that she heard Mr. Allen use the slur repeatedly at a party on election night in 1976. She said Mr. Allen used the term while deprecating the intelligence of the black players on the Washington Redskins football team, which Mr. Allen’s father coached. Recalling remarks about its star running back, Larry Brown, Mrs. Hawkins said that Mr. Allen “started in effect bad-mouthing him, saying what a shiftless you-know-what” he was.

She said she remembered the conversation because she was a big fan of the team and was shocked. She said Mr. Allen’s statement on Monday was “just plain a lie.”

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[krispos42]

1. Well, of course he won't realize he did it,or at least admit it

These kinds of deep racists use those kinds of terms as casually as they use any other term.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Wow sounds to me like allen also has a drinking problem

just like his buddy dubya?? Ranting and raving about a football player then still in denial 30 years later??.

Maybe this is all a rovian plan to secure the klan and white supremacist vote since republicans have given up on getting the votes of decent, educated, loving Americans.

[oasis]

6. Allen seemed a bit woozy on the "maccaca" video. Another Mel Gibson.

[tularetom]

7. Nah they'll never vote for Felix Macaca

He's one a them "Jeeeyews".

[Bacchus39]

3. I don't believe Allen, but I wouldn't believe any other politician either

who denied ever uttering a racial slur particulary 30 years in the past.

[LibDemAlways]

4. Another person has also just corroborated the deer head incident

Scroll down in article below from The New Republic

http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank

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5. Oh my lord.

As atrios opined, "Time go go, macaca."

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. It's a case of allen's word against everybody else.

But allen is such a good guy, it's best to believe him & wadhams right?

It's a rather extreme position they are taking on this, stand tall, deny everything & call everybody a liar, they are really crossing their fingers and hoping that this will all go away.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Just a good ol' boy in cowboy boots, but with the shit on the inside.

instead of the outside, like real cowboys.

[951-Riverside]

10. and Senator Robert C. Byrd was a member of the KKK

There has to better things to dig up on this George Allen asshole other than an accusation that he used A slur 30 years ago.

[LibDemAlways]

13. It's one part of the puzzle that also

includes a noose he displayed, Confederate flags he hung, racist graffiti he spraypainted, the curious choice of "Forrest" as the name he gave his only son that just happens to be the name of the founder of the KKK, his association with the supremecist group Conservative Citizens Council, his publically calling a young man of Indian descent a word that is a racial slur in his mother's native Tunisia, and now reports of a deer's head put in the mailbox of a family he believed to be black. Allen has a long, sordid history. This isn't at all about isolated comments.

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. Back in the 50's. I don't think he's denied it. But has Allen 'fessed up?

There, IMHO, lies the difference.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

15. And then there's the rest of Byrd's career...

He's spent the past fifty years or so trying to build people up, regardless of their skin color.

What's Allen got on his resume?

[951-Riverside]

16. He shouldnt have had a career to begin with

Just like Allen.

[Beetwasher]

11. Toastedly Toasty Toasted Toast

:rofl:

The Redskin's and Larry Brown are pretty damn popular in those parts.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I'm not sure which is worse...

A flat-out in-your-face racist, or a snake who hides in a field of PC grass.