George Allen is a goober:

Macaca (also spelled Macaque) is a dismissive epithet used by Francophone colonials in Africa for native populations of North and Subsaharan Africans, similar to the British "wog", or US "gook" or "haji". Macaca is also a coded word used in the White Power Movement to refer to people of African descent.

During the listening tour of United States Senator George Allen, he twice referred to the only non-white person in the audience as "Macaca" (as the US media initially transcribed it), pointed out that the student was working for Allen's opponent James H. Webb, and told him "welcome to America." The person he called "Macaca" was an American-born Asian Indian student, S.R. Sidarth, who grew up in Virginia's Fairfax County and attends the University of Virginia. Allen's mother was of French-Tunisian origin, and it has been suggested that Allen thus knew the meaning of the epithet.

Allen Quip Provokes Outrage, Apology

Name Insults Webb Volunteer

By Tim Craig and Michael D. Shear

Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 15, 2006; Page A01

RICHMOND, Aug. 14 -- Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) apologized Monday for what his opponent's campaign said were demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old volunteer of Indian descent.

At a campaign rally in southwest Virginia on Friday, Allen repeatedly called a volunteer for Democrat James Webb "macaca." During the speech in Breaks, near the Kentucky border, Allen began by saying that he was "going to run this campaign on positive, constructive ideas" and then pointed at S.R. Sidarth in the crowd...http://tinyurl.com/k6r4a
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Servants' Quarters

Posted by James Wolcott

Conservative New York radio talkshow hothead Bob Grant once said on the air that then-New York mayor David Dinkins (a far more elegant dresser than Grant, by the way) reminded him of a "men's room attendant".

On Imus in the Morning, Imus or one of his crew once joked about the pre-Washington Week in Review Gwen Ifill: "Speaking of reporter Gwen Ifill, he's said, 'Isn't the [New York] Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.'"

A week ago, Mickey Kaus's arm candy wrote, "Congresswoman Maxine Waters had parachuted into Connecticut earlier in the week to campaign against [Sen. Joseph I.] Lieberman because he once expressed reservations about affirmative action, without which she would not have a job that didn't involve wearing a paper hat."

And now the cover of the latest Weekly Standard brings us Al Sharpton as a Driving Miss Daisy faithful retainer "who dares not look his master in the eye."

Washroom attendant. Cleaning lady. Cafeteria worker. Chauffeur.

Notice a pattern?...http://tinyurl.com/kqgs9
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