Allen: Oh, it's just made up.Russert: Made-up word?Allen: Just made up.

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/17/AR2006091700862.html

Senate Contenders on the Issues
Monday, September 18, 2006; Page A09

Excerpts from a transcript of yesterday's debate between Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) and Democratic challenger James Webb, moderated by NBC's Tim Russert:

<<snip>>

Allen: Staying the course means that we don't tuck tail and run, that we don't retreat, that we don't surrender. This is a central battlefront in the war on terror.

Webb: We didn't go into Iraq because of terrorism. We have terrorists in Iraq because we went in there.

<<snip>>

On Allen's use of the slur "macaca," in referring to a Webb campaign volunteer of Indian descent

Russert: Where did the word come from? It must have been in your consciousness.

Allen: Oh, it's just made up.

Russert: Made-up word?

Allen: Just made up. Made-up word.

Russert: You'd never heard it before?

Allen: Never heard it before.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Uh...Right.

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Macaca_mulatta.html
Populations of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) are most commonly found in western Afghanistan, through India to northern Thailand. This species was abundant historically in southern China and Tibet, but humans have caused drastic decline of populations in these areas over the last sixty years. Because M. mulatta is often used for research, today populations are kept in captivity world wide.

[marmar]

2. Racist jackass. I just made that up too....

What a load of bollocks.

[tuvor]

3. Allen: "Oh, and Tim, guess what else?...*HORK*...It's raining!"

Russert: "Oh, okay."

[NOLADEM]

4. What about a noose? Ever heard of a noose?

Fucking scumbag.

[OzarkDem]

5. Didn't sound like Russert believed him

though he didn't really call him on it.

[rzemanfl]

6. My bohemian grandmother used the word "throba" to refer to

someone she didn't like, I don't know how to spell it and I am not sure what it means, but I know it is not a compliment. I am sure the same goes for Allen's French-Tunisian mother and "macca."

[zeemike]

7. He never heard that word before my ass

He used it like a good old boy does to suggest something to all the other good old boys that we have one of "THEM" around us.
Racism is still alive in some people and most of them are republicans.

[AtomicKitten]

8. Jon Stewart weighs in

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O6ffgc0oEs