Democrat James Webb's Senate campaign accused Sen. George Allen (R) of making demeaning comments Friday to a 20-year-old Webb volunteer of Indian descent."Welcome to America?" Yeeeeesh. Looks like "macaque" is a slur for someone of North African decent. Give Allen points for obscurity.
S.R. Sidarth, a senior at the University of Virginia, had been trailing Allen with a video camera to document his travels and speeches for the Webb campaign. During a campaign speech Friday in Breaks, Virginia, near the Kentucky border, Allen singled out Sidarth and called him a word that sounded like "Macaca."
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"Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia," said Allen, who then began talking about the "war on terror."
Putz, who bent over backwards defending Allen against charges of racism before, hasn't said a peep about this gaffe.
You can pretty much take it to the bank that if Howard Dean -- err, strike that -- any Democrat, no matter how obscure -- had said it, he'd be all over it.
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