The "George Allen/Macaca Incident" story is picking up steam. Dems/Libs in the blogosphere (hat tip, AC Kleinheider) are asserting that this alleged slur (which, prior to now, noone in question had ever heard of, much less been offended by) was uttered by Allen as "code" to his White Power Brethren while looking into a video camera filming him uttering the said alleged slur. Oh, and they are linking to a Liberal's blog as etymological authority for their assertion that the word "macaca" (phonetic) is a racial slur.
Maybe, gang; but you'll have to do better than that to convince someone other than a hard-core Republican-hater. In fact, I think that this whole "story" reflects a weakness of the blogosphere as journalistic venture. This is a "story" because enough people want it to be a story and can rant about it with little to no editorial control.
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7 years ago
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Yeah, maybe he was just pulling a Howard Cossell, "Look at that little monkey run." Of course, Cossell had documented cases of saying that phrase about white people.
Does Allen typically go around calling a lot of people Rhesus Monkeys? If so, is there any proof?
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