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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FUNKED1 on August 15, 2006, 04:59:23 PM
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Wow (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/14/politics/p205330D45.DTL&type=politics)
Calling an Indian dude a monkey? Voters gonna let him get away with that?
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Hi Funked,
I'm not about to shill for Allen, but if that level of gaffe was grounds alone for kicking out a Senator, then every one of them would be gone by now.
I think Tim Graham summed up the difference in how much attention the Allen gaffe is getting well:
In early July, Sen. Joe Biden joked before a C-SPAN camera that “you cannot go into a Dunkin Donuts of a 7-Eleven unless you have a slight Indian accent.” Conservatives had a little fun with it, but said: a harmless slip, but if a Republican ever did it, the media would have a much different standard. That day is now. Sen. George Allen mocked an Indian-American Democratic volunteer as a "macaca," and the Post played it up on the front page, along with a very tendentious staff editorial to boot insisting Allen's racial "bullying" was beyond "the bounds of decency." Washington Post coverage of Biden? None. Not in the paper.
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Calling a guy a monkey to his face is a bit stronger than an Apu joke.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
Wow (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/14/politics/p205330D45.DTL&type=politics)
Calling an Indian dude a monkey? Voters gonna let him get away with that?
How is calling an "Indian dude" a monkey any different from calling anyone else a monkey? Certainly it is an insult.
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he is teh howard cosell's shade!!!!11!:noid :noid :noid :noid
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Anyone really believe he knew what a Macaca is?
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Is it from the "chocolate city"?