Wow, this thing has blog-legs! Among the more interesting posts I've seen about the incident:
Over at Arianna Huffington's place, they've published excerpts from Senator George Allen's sister Jennifer talking about what a violent little sleaze he was as a younger man. Creepy! And oddly familiar; I think he would have gotten along well with young Georgie Bush and his live-frog-exploding crew.
Mustang Bobby finds a blog post that observes, "According to two Republicans who heard the word used, 'macaca' was a mash-up of 'Mohawk,' referring to Sidarth's distinctive hair, and 'caca,' Spanish slang for excrement, or 'shit.' Said one Republican close to the campaign: 'In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance.'" Yeah, so obviously we'd want to welcome him to America. Being, as he is, an American citizen born-and-bred already.
And speaking of shit, Digby calls bullshit on this whole incident by revealing that macaca is, indeed, a well-known code word recognized by racists, particularly in France and by those familiar with North Africans - and, surprise surprise, John Amato finds a New Republic post informing us that Allen's "mother is French Tunisian (yeah, that’s in North Africa), and Allen speaks French." or, at least, he speaks la langue de racist code.
Over at Arianna Huffington's place, they've published excerpts from Senator George Allen's sister Jennifer talking about what a violent little sleaze he was as a younger man. Creepy! And oddly familiar; I think he would have gotten along well with young Georgie Bush and his live-frog-exploding crew.
Mustang Bobby finds a blog post that observes, "According to two Republicans who heard the word used, 'macaca' was a mash-up of 'Mohawk,' referring to Sidarth's distinctive hair, and 'caca,' Spanish slang for excrement, or 'shit.' Said one Republican close to the campaign: 'In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance.'" Yeah, so obviously we'd want to welcome him to America. Being, as he is, an American citizen born-and-bred already.
And speaking of shit, Digby calls bullshit on this whole incident by revealing that macaca is, indeed, a well-known code word recognized by racists, particularly in France and by those familiar with North Africans - and, surprise surprise, John Amato finds a New Republic post informing us that Allen's "mother is French Tunisian (yeah, that’s in North Africa), and Allen speaks French." or, at least, he speaks la langue de racist code.
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