I just love this. George Allen spent some time this morning calling a South East Asian Webb staffer Macaque -- a charmingly vintage racial slur for North Africans. Sadly, Macaque -- also known by his given name, S.R Sidarth -- was holding a video camera. So now the campaign is in turmoil, Allen's been caught in a racial slur. So what do his staffers come up with?
Allen campaign manager Dick Wadhams said the Webb campaign's complaints about the comments are unfounded and he said Allen had "nothing to apologize for" to the young man.
Wadhams said Allen campaign staffers had begun calling Sidarth "mohawk" because of a haircut Wadhams said the Webb staffer has. "Macaca was just a variation of that," Wadhams said.
Heh. Sidarth, of course, has neither a mohawk, nor anything like it. Indeed, his haircut is surprisingly similar to that of, yes, George Allen's. But I love imagining the hasty meeting that must've happened at Allen HQ -- the desperate search for a homophone to macaque, the settling on mohawk, the efforts to explain why Allen would think to use mohawk, the decision that voters would buy that Allen both couldn't pronounce the word and applied it to someone with an average haircut. Had to be one helluva meeting. And remember, this is the same Allen with a confederate flag fetish and a noose hanging in his office. What a winner.
And now, for your entertainment, a comparison of Allen and Sidarth's comments. Spot the mohawk!
Mr. Mohawk wonders: Am I here?
Or here? I sure am Tricky!
