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[Human Torch]

Allen Just “Made Up” the Word Macaca
By: John Amato on Sunday, September 17th, 2006 at 9:41 AM - PDT

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/17/allen-just-made-up-the-word-macaca/



Not only has Allen lifted Dick Durbin’s legislation, but now he says he never heard the word Macaca before. Will he now say that his mother is not from French Tunisian, where that word is used as a racial slur? I thought Allen’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams retracted that apology anyway?

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Mike Legra:

Timmeh really had Senator Allen squirming this morning over his racist tendencies. Not only did Allen call a dark-skinned Webb campaigner "macaca" — even though he just "made up" the word and didn’t know it’s considered a racist slur — and opposed a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates in 1984, but Russert calls him out on an AP article citing how he "used to keep a confederate flag in his living room, a noose in his law office and a picture of confederate troops in his governors office." Politics and "confederate pride" aside, how do you explain keeping a noose in your office?

That symbolizes nothing other than oppression and hatred towards African-Americans. This Nation article points out, Allens racism goes far beyond "macaca" and S.R. Sidarth.

[annabanana]

1. He is still saying that? Really?

He "made the word up". . .a French Tunisian racial slur? He never, ever, ever heard his own Mother, (the French Tunisian) use it, not even once?

Good God, I am amazed that he's still trying to pull that "whoopsie" crap...

[billbuckhead]

5. Mon Dieu!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's French????????????

:evilgrin:

[soothsayer]

2. Hoo boy, lying liars, all of 'em!

[gully]

3. OMG.

Hilarious. And THIS is the guy Republicans were "excited" about in 2008. Why am I not surprised?

[p12psicop]

4. What kind of a weirdo makes up names for people?

And then the "made up" name just happens to correspond to an appropriate racial epithet that is peculiar to a specifically provincial culture and would only be familiar to him by way of his association with his mother?

The only people who could believe in such a stretch are people who WANT to believe it. The republicans don't care any more about actual values. They just want to remain in power.

[Rockholm]

6. Senator Allen Looks French. OMG...He IS French!!!!!!

What a little worm he is.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Webb's followup was excellent.

I enjoyed that as much or more than Felix's sorry-assed excuse. He pointed out his own roots in that part of Virginia and in the same breath cut down Felix's insinuation that Webb was out of touch and off 'Hollywoodin'.

[otohara]

8. Been Caught Lying How Many Times???

Telling big fat lies on national TV so many times is such common practice with these hypocrites, it blows my mind!

Pants on fire Sen. Allen.