Maybe if he told a joke about Gandhi being a gas attendent, the Washington Post would not care.
That is if his name were Hillary, who did just that.
I hope Allen becomes president some day, because I can't wait until he is out of office so I can visit his presidential library and see what kind of display they'll have on the "Macaca Incident."
Well, this makes a lot more sense to me than Allen knowing about a French Tunisian slur against native North Africans that nobody in America ever heard of.
If I were to lose control, and shout expletives at someone, then I would be embrarassed, and I would apologize, because I would know that I did something that no decent man should have done.
But if I were to mumble "Hiya, Jumafuma" at someone because I've forgotten his name -- if I were to find out that Jumafuma means "Objectionable Old Aunt" in the Kung dialect of Mumbezi language -- I would not apologize, because I had not knowingly done anything wrong.
Once you start apologizing for this crap, there is no end to it -- it's never enough for these people.
I think they should just pretend it never happened and move on...
I'm guessing this was an off the record comment??
When will we hear the dems off the record comments??
Pretty stupid remark for somebody on the campaign trail, at any rate.
Maybe if Webb was not a Pro-terrorist douche, he would not have to make such a big deal about this.
Then again, if I were a certain loser like Webb, I would do everything I could to try to win.
TORO CACA!
This isn't a new explanation, it's what they said originally, and what I speculated happened back when this first broke out in the virginia blogs.
Allen's staff had a name they called him, Allen probably didn't know it's derivation or its use, but he had heard it.
Then when he addressed the kid (watch the video and this is clear) he called him out as the "yellow-shirt guy". but that seemed to make Allen uncomfortable refering to the guy by the shirt he wore, so he threw in the guy's name, or at least what he remembered hearing as the guy's name. Certainly "macaca" doesn't sound any worse for an indian-american name to a non-indian than dozens of other names that ARE indian-american names, so he could be excused for not knowing it wasn't the guy's name.
When he learned it wasn't the kid's name, he apologized.
The webb supporters claim the "story" allen gave was that he meant to say mohawk and just messed up, but Allen never said that, and neither did Allen's campaign.
The guy's hair looked like a crappy mohawk. When Chad put up the picture, it all became clear, although the webb supporters are still insisting that what is clearly a mohawk in the picture is NOT a mohawk, but instead a "mullet", which in southwest virginia is something completely different, showing that Webb's campaign still doesn't understand the real america, or the real virginia.
You mean the Lion thing?
Thats all I WAS referring too, sorry!
If memory serves, kakon is Attic Greek for vile, evil, or filthy, but the word is much older than 2,500 years and has spread to many modern languages. It could also be a cognate of something with an entirely innocuous meaning. Perhaps some more schooled in linguistics or philology can chime in.
Wow. I said something close to that as a joke yesterday...
Look sometimes macaca happens, can't we all just move on.
Well...the "hairdo" is more like "caca." So Allen is right with our dear sentive minority. LOF
Interesting how these type of incidents (libs outraged) also seem to happen to stalkers working for the other campaign.
The punk recording Aleen is a total oportunistis politically motivated punk sissy if you ask me.
Its some kind of chocolate cookie with coconuts in it.
Perhaps the democrats have a faction which wants to marry monkeys called Macacas? Thus they could claim macacas are being discrimianted agains and need tax breaks and diversity sentitivity training for those who do not support human/macaca marriages.
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