Friends don't call friends "macaca": Senator George Allen
Old story, but still worth a looksee on YouTube for the sheer brazenness of the Republican Senator's putdown of an American citizen of somewhat dark skin (the dude was born and raised in PA, USA, by the way). Follow the links on the bottom on the Wik page for YouTube footage.
Macaca is a word I had never heard before this whole thing broke. So obviously the Senator is up on all the finer points of racial epithets. Good for him. Makes it easier to feel like vomiting when Republicans promote him as a possible successor to our current President.
Here's the ABC News clip which quotes Allen's camp as apologizing to "anyone who was possibly offended" by the remark. Anyone? You mean there are people who might possibly NOT be offended by this guy sticking his foot into his big fat mouth? So he's apologizing to six billion people for being a cretin? Ok, that makes sense.
For a fucken Senator to be so brazen, so open for using a word that carries the same message as "nigger" to a black man shows one of two things:
------ He is so stupid he didn't realize what he was saying. ...Possible but not likely.
------ He showed how he really feels about non-white folks, both here and in the world. ...More likely.
Our local paper put an article on yet another Senator, Mr. Burns of Montanta, a Republican trying to keep his eyes open during some farm type meeting, and the headline was "YouTube shows 'gotcha' politics". That, to my eyes, is being kind to these jerks. If someone says "macaca" to a guy with a video camera or falls asleep at open state farm bill hearing, the public deserves to know. It's not a "gotcha", it's public information.....so long as they don't stick a camera in the guy's house or something.
Maybe they should just be honest and adopt this creed:
"The Republican Party: Same Old Shite...Different Wrapper. Go For It In '06!!!"
Macaca is a word I had never heard before this whole thing broke. So obviously the Senator is up on all the finer points of racial epithets. Good for him. Makes it easier to feel like vomiting when Republicans promote him as a possible successor to our current President.
Here's the ABC News clip which quotes Allen's camp as apologizing to "anyone who was possibly offended" by the remark. Anyone? You mean there are people who might possibly NOT be offended by this guy sticking his foot into his big fat mouth? So he's apologizing to six billion people for being a cretin? Ok, that makes sense.
For a fucken Senator to be so brazen, so open for using a word that carries the same message as "nigger" to a black man shows one of two things:
------ He is so stupid he didn't realize what he was saying. ...Possible but not likely.
------ He showed how he really feels about non-white folks, both here and in the world. ...More likely.
Our local paper put an article on yet another Senator, Mr. Burns of Montanta, a Republican trying to keep his eyes open during some farm type meeting, and the headline was "YouTube shows 'gotcha' politics". That, to my eyes, is being kind to these jerks. If someone says "macaca" to a guy with a video camera or falls asleep at open state farm bill hearing, the public deserves to know. It's not a "gotcha", it's public information.....so long as they don't stick a camera in the guy's house or something.
Maybe they should just be honest and adopt this creed:
"The Republican Party: Same Old Shite...Different Wrapper. Go For It In '06!!!"
posted by joe sweeney at 12:12 PM
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