Allen: "No newspaper stories about it at the time" means "I DIDN'T DO IT"

[Human Torch]

Allen again denies using racial epithet

The senator went on the Fox News Channel and said he did not use "the N-word" in the 1970s.BY DAVID LERMAN

September 30, 2006



http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/dp-41455sy0sep30,0,6756906.story?coll=dp-news-local-final

VIRGINIA: SENATE RACE -- Breaking days of silence, Republican Sen. George Allen appeared on Fox News Channel Friday night to issue a second denial of charges that he used a racial epithet as a college student in the 1970's.

Allen said he did not recall ever having used "the N-word," as alleged by several former college football teammates and other acquaintances whose names have surfaced this week.

"I don't recall every word I've said," Allen told conservative talk-show host Sean Hannity. "But this portrayal that it was part of my everyday vocabulary is false."

The senator also denied a claim by one former football teammate - Ken Shelton, a North Carolina radiologist - that he once stuffed a deer head in the mailbox of an African-American family after a college hunting trip. "No one else remembers it," Allen said of the alleged incident, noting there were no newspaper stories about it at the time. George Beam, a former roommate of one of the alleged hunting partners, said he had been told of the incident at the time but not that it was targeted to a black family.

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[nam78_two]

1. What a nice man-I know I would like to have a beer with him/nt

[Texas_Kat]

2. So...Allen is a racist AND a liar

Who Knew?

[Human Torch]

3. Yes...he passed the initial GOP screening with flying colors.

:patriot:

[LibDemAlways]

4. What is the likelihood in rural Virginia back in the

1970's that a black family finding a doe's head in their mailbox would even file a police report much less contact a reporter?

Of course, since Allen uttered this ridiculous statement on FAUX News, it no doubt went unchallenged.