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If you think quoting an article that calls someone the anti-christ of outsourcing is the same as using an ethnic slur and 'welcoming' someone to America, you  have your head so far up your ass that when you sneeze you tickle your stomach. You Allen clowns are a disgrace to Virginia and people everywhere who value tolerance.

This comment does not make Allen a racist. But refusing to acknowledge that the comment is mean spirited at best and racist at worst, you just show how out of touch you are and that the politics of Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond play far too much a part in your party.

How the party of Lincoln became the party of Lott is one of America's greatest tragedies.

Obviously, the Webb folks deny any anti-Semitism, with good reason: It's a pretty big stretch to find anything anti-Jewish about the Webb flyer. The flyer is avowedly and crashingly anti-Miller, and it's a fun, populist piece, focusing on the obviously uncomfortable position Miller's lobbying work has put him in as he now tries to persuade Virginians that he's somehow a man of the people.

But anti-Semitic? First of all, until the Miller campaign started to make noise about this flyer, hardly a soul in Virginia knew that Harris Miller is Jewish. And there was no sign that anyone cared. Second, I showed the flyer to 22 Jews and not a single one saw anything remotely wrong with it. Only after I prompted them did people see the exaggerated nose, but since not a one of them knew what Miller really looks like, no one could tell whether this was a fair caricature or not. Well, it is.

Nice try at distracting from Allen's blatant, long-standing, and ongoing racism though! 

I honestly think Felix did this to get the pressure off his friend Mel.. even if he's a hollywood type.

More dead in iraq than ever.

George Allen has shown NO leadership whatso ever. Lets have a concrete discussion of felix, please.

Felix, navidad!!!!

For those of you not aware of this, if you click on a reporter's byline in the online Post, you can send a message to their e-mail.  I've gotten replies from reporters in the past.  (I don't know if Shear read my e-mail yesterday, but I sent him references to online foreign dictionaries explaining the word macaca.)

As an aside, while Allen makes fun of Webb having Hollywood mogul friends, I wonder how many votes Allen would lose in "his America" if he started showing off his French expertise. LOL.

Anyway, anyone catch that last night?

"Asked what macaca means, Allen said: 'I don't know what it means.'"

Thanks for clearing that up, big guy!

Run away boy, you got a red ass.

I Publius gets a red ass and runs away (again)

Got any other pithy insights on MZM / Athena Innovative Solutions? 

Maybe the boy is not a racist. Heck, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, even though it is a real stretch to do that. Maybe he is just a case of arrested development, having never gotten over his adolescent bullying behavior (see sister's autobiography for apecifics). Well, grow up, George, you are in the Big Leagues now...and you have an opponent this year who is a grown man who acts like an adult.

Library Journal
Allen, daughter of George Allen, one of professional football's most prominent coaches in the 1960s and 1970s, has written a unique book about the life sports fans rarely see: the home life of a coach's family with a father so focused on winning a Super Bowl championship that his family seemed hardly to matter. This is the story of a truly dysfunctional family, one in which the daughter (the author) tried hard to get to know her father but, because she wasn't part of his football coaching life, apparently never did. George Allen is not alive to defend himself, but the portrait his daughter draws is of a man totally dedicated to football to the exclusion of all else. The author tells of moving many times as the elder Allen took different coaching jobs; of never celebrating Christmas because it fell during the NFL playoffs; and of her father's paranoia about other teams to the point that he slept in his office during the season so that no other coach could outwork him. In sum, this is a devastating portrait of a family torn apart by Coach Allen's obsession to win a championship. Highly recommended for all libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/1/00.]--William Scheeren, Hempfield Area H.S. Lib. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

School Library Journal
Adult/High School-To fans, football is a great way to pass a crisp, autumn afternoon. But for Jennifer Allen, it was the culture around which her life revolved. Her father, Coach George Allen, focused like a laser beam on the game. He never learned to spell his daughter's name correctly. He was never home for dinners or birthdays or Christmas. Jennifer recounts her life in short chapters as her father made the L.A. Rams a winning team and brought a championship to the Washington Redskins. The entire family kowtowed to his every wish and whim. Her brothers kept statistics on the sidelines; Jennifer's job was to turn the channels on the television so that her father could see all the sportscasts on the news. Her mother reveled in her public role as Mrs. George Allen, but mother and daughter relished the freedom they had when her father and brothers left for training camp. Jennifer's French mother, a chain-smoker who could swear a blue streak and find irony in every situation, provided the comic relief to her husband's intensity. In a loving look at life with a dominating, driven coach, Allen provides an inside look at football, life in the sports limelight, and the `70s as she grows from a child to a rebellious young woman struggling to find her place in the world.-Jane S. Drabkin, Potomac Community Library, Woodbridge, VA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Hmmm... the answer is on the tip of my tongue but I can't quite put the pieces together.  ;-)

Ya know, it's interesting that not too many of the MSM articles are addressing these obviously incriminating facts.  They seem to be giving Allen a pass and taking him at his word he didn't know macaca also means monkey or is simply a racial slur (or both).  Ha!

BTW- I studied at the University of Nice for one semester while with George Mason and recall the term. And in southern France it was pronounce just like macaca (que in French in the south sounds like Ka). It's highly derogatory and is basically their N word for North Africans who are prevelant in the region. Unfortunately, in the late 80s, it was acceptable to use in common speech.

George Allen's America: Whom it Includes and Whom it Doesn't

"My Friends, we're going to run this campaign on positive, constructive ideas," Sen. George F. Allen told a rally of Republican supporters in Southwest Virginia last week. "And it's important that we motivate and inspire people for something." Whereupon Mr. Allen turned his attention to a young campaign aide working for his Democratic opponent- a University of Virginia student from Fairfax County who was apparently the only person of color present - and proceeded to ridicule him.

Let's consider which positive, constructive or inspirational ideas Mr. Allen had in mind when he chose to mock S.R. Sidarth of Dunn Loring, who was recording the event with a video camera on behalf of James Webb, the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat Mr. Allen holds. The idea that holding up minorities to public scorn in front of an all-white crowd will elicit chortles and guffaws? (It did.) The idea that a candidate for public office can say "Welcome to American and the real world of Virginia!" to an American of Indian descent and really mean nothing offensive by it? " (So insisted Mr. Allen's aides.) Or perhaps the idea that bullying your opponents and calling them strange names-Mr. Allen twice referred to Mr. Sidarth as "Macaca"-is within the bounds of decency on the campaign trail?

We have no inkling as to what Mr. Allen meants by "Macaca," though we rather doubt his campaign's imaginative explanation that it was somewhow an allusion to Mr. Sidarth's hairstyle, a mullet.  Mr. Allen said last night that no slur was intended, though he failed to explain what, exactly, he did have in mind.  Macaca is the genus of macaques, a type of monkey found mainly in Asia.  Mr. Allen, who as a young man had a fondness for Confederate flags and later staunchly opposed a state holiday in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has surely learned too much about racial sensitivities in public life to mispeak so offensively.

Mr. Sidarth, who is 20, is a senior at U-Va.; he graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax after compiling an excellent academic record.  He is thinking of applying to law school.  He may be forgiven if his week-long foray on the campaign trail with Mr. Allen has left him with a bitter taste.  "I think he was doing it because he could, and I was the person of color there and it was useful for him in inciting his audience," Mr. Sidarth told us.  "I'm disgusted he would use my race in a political context."

We don't blame him for feeling that way.  But really, by mocking Mr. Sidarth, Sen. George F. Allen demeaned only himself.

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I feel that whomever wrote this for the Post, is right on the money.  It saddens me that Sidarth had to go through it.

should be a super party tonight at hq with all that is going on today. 

can't wait to see one and all to talk in person.

Allen has been a public figure for 24 years and does something like this, and while a tape is rolling right in front of him.  Amazingly stupid on his part.  Is Mary M. leaving the his campaign to go work for McCain?

Nicely done. 

(Now, if only y'all had the intellectual honesty to admit that this is about as deep as this issue gets, then we'd be getting somewhere).

But anyway -- nice pic. 

Thank you lowell..

I needed that

Stolen from NLS. We are all macaca.

And a 20 something programmer in my office building here in Blacksburg just walked in sporting a mohawk. I smell a movement of solidarity. From Sunday night's NLS posting it is so interesting to watch how a meme is born and spreads so quickly.

Once cafepress has it it officially has long legs. So sorry I.PubliclylooklikeIknowlotsoflatin.

Silva Puers unite!

Blue for Virginia.
We all show up across the street from Allen wearing one.

Let's Do It.

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The size of a story is related to the audience it reaches. This is national.

This story has more legs than Cher and it will be around for a while because Senator Allen wishes to be President of the USA.  It won't go away.  Sorry George F.Allen  :-(

Whether or not Allen is a racist is up for debate. Saying this is not a big story (WHEN EVERY PAPER IN VIRGINIA AND THE FRONT PAGE OF CNN'S POLITICS PAGE ARE RUNNING THE STORY!!!) is absurd.

Webb calling Harris Miller the Anti-Christ was a story.
Kilgore's Hitler ads was a big story for a couple days, and a story for a few days after that.
John Kerry's Swift Boat fiasco was a big story, period. 

This macaca flap is a story.  If you can't recognize the difference, it most likely means that you're simply desperate for this to become a big story.  And that's understandable.  Your candidate has zero chance of winning, and this gives you a glimmer of hope.

I realize that this is a HUGE story for the Webb campaign and for the relatively few people who are die-hard Webb activists, such as yourself.  For the vast majority of people, however, this amounts to a, "Oh, really? Hmmmm" -- and not much else.

Avon Park, Fla.: Let me give the Washington Post credit for covering the incident in which Sen. George Allen made a racial slur at a campaign event. I think that this story should be given quite a bit of national media attention. Considering that he's a presidential candidate, why aren't TV networks exposing this more than they have?

Dan Balz: Our Virgina reporters know a story when it happens and the Post gave this prominent display on the front page. My guess is that TV will pick it up more today. This pbviously will not help Allen's presidential chances.

The horse race doesn't matter to me. I'm going to work 50 hours a week from now until election day to get Webb elected, but if he doesn't I won't shed one tear.  It's not always about winning and losing, it's about devoting yourself to something that matters. Fighting for a cause you beleive in is something obviously foreign to Republicans, as the only principle they stand for is attaining power.

So go ahead and call Webb a long shot. Make fun of his lack of money. Call his chances of winning small.  You're only exposing yourself for being a hack who cares more about playing politics than helping improve people's lives. Come to think of it, I can't think of anything that has better embodied the Bush administration.

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"I am the guy/gal in the yellow T"
"I am an ordinary citizen"
"I am entitled to come and hear you speak for I pay your salary"

You know....the kind of stunt they pulled at the Repug convention w/the bandaids.

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And the National Journal writer opines that the Allen campaign has ticked off the Post.

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Oooooh Laaaah!

You need to go play with your Latin dic

so angry I ... I ... can't open the pringles nacho flavor!

Yes:  62.6%
No: 37.4%
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To the Editor:
What irony that George Allen's slur of an American of Indian descent was reported (Aug. 15, A1) on the same day the Post reported that Indra K. Nooyi, a native of India, would become CEO of an American icon, PepsiCo (D1). I wonder whether she might want PepsiCo's political action committee to reconsider its $2,500 gift to Allen's campaign.

Allen's insensitivity toward people of color, whether unconscious by design, must be seen in a wider context than his confederate flag and lapel pin and his well-known opposition to a Martin Luther King holiday, as the Post described. His crusade as governor to end parole and build more prisons won admiration from those who cheer the incarceration of more young African-American men for minor offenses. His vote for the Senate's punitive immigration bill was a coded signal to those who fantasize about rounding up and deporting Latinos from a fortress America.
If Allen really hopes to understand why "welcome to America" is an insult to a young Virginian of color in a sea of white faces, he might invite Mel Gibson to join him in a 12-step program for recovering bigots.

  JAMES C. WEBSTER Arlington