Larry Sabato VA political science prof:"the fact is he did use the n-word"

[dajoki]

Associated Press
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/09/25/ap3043981.html

Va. Senator Denies Using Racial Slur
By BOB LEWIS , 09.25.2006, 07:40 PM

Sen. George Allen on Monday denounced as "ludicrously false" allegations from a former college football teammate that he frequently used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s and that he once stuffed a severed deer head into a black household's mailbox.

Allen's campaign also released statements from four other ex-teammates defending the senator and rejecting Dr. Ken Shelton's claims. Shelton leveled the allegations against the former University of Virginia quarterback in an article published Sunday in the online magazine Salon.com and during an Associated Press interview Sunday night.

"The story and his comments and assertions in there are completely false," Allen said during an interview with AP reporters and editors. "I don't remember ever using that word and it is absolutely false that that was ever part of my vocabulary."

Larry J. Sabato, one of Virginia's most-quoted political science professors and a classmate of Allen's in the early 1970s, said in a televised interview Monday that Allen used the epithet.

"I'm simply going to stay with what I know is the case and the fact is he did use the n-word, whether he's denying it or not," Sabato, now director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told Chris Matthews on MSNBC. Sabato would not say whether he had heard Allen say the word, and did not know whether it was true that Allen used the word frequently in college.

[IndianaGreen]

1. Senator Macaca "I ate a ham sandwich" goose is cooked

Dr. Ken Shelton has far more credibility than Macaca Allen, so much so that if Shelton said that Allen stuffed a deer head in the mailbox of an African American family, the burden of proof is on Allen to convince us otherwise.

[Eric J in MN]

2. I wish that Larry Sabato would tell us if he knows this first-hand,

...or second-hand or what.