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Title: US senator called someone a monkey
Post by: Ross Alvarez on August 17, 2006, 08:03:57 AM
RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) -- A volunteer of Indian descent working for Democrat Jim Webb's U.S. Senate campaign said Monday he felt insulted when Sen. George Allen called him a name that sounded like "Macaca" during a rally in western Virginia.

S.R. Sidarth, 20, spent last week following Allen's "listening tour" and filming the appearances for the Webb campaign, which distributed a video clip of Friday's appearance to reporters.

"This fellow over here with the yellow shirt -- Macaca or whatever his name is -- he's with my opponent," Allen said. "He's following us around everywhere."

Macaca is a term associated with a species of monkeys.

"This is not something we knew," said Allen campaign spokesman Dick Wadhams.

The name also could be spelled Makaka, which is a city in South Africa.

read more from CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/16/allen.volunteer/index.html).
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/16/mg.wed/index.html


Title: Re: US senator called someone a monkey
Post by: Ross Alvarez on August 17, 2006, 08:10:09 AM
I think he meant what he said. Who wears mohawk these days? And ovbiously his opponent lived in Virginia for years. So I think it's obvious he's just making an alibi that he don't know what macaca is.


Title: Re: US senator called someone a monkey
Post by: Jun Binghay on August 17, 2006, 09:19:55 AM
Reminds me of McKinney from Georgia.  Trying to do some damage control by adding more damage. lol


Title: Re: US senator called someone a monkey
Post by: Johnny Caparas on August 17, 2006, 07:59:01 PM
He also wore confedarate flag pin on his shirt colar in a high school yearbook.