Allen's gonna be our next president.

If they went for an idiot like Bush, they'll absolutely love Allen.

Macaco is probably the way an american would pronounce the word macaco a word for ape or monkey in the Portuguese and Spanish languages.

When hound dog visaged George Allen starts his Forhorn Leghorn imitation

Link: http://www.toonopedia.com/foghorn.htm

folks on both side of the aisles head for the barf bags.

Give Allen time, he'll screw this re-election deal up.

Probably "clever" transition of "Mohawk" to "Mo' Caca" as in more shit.

"He's not Mo' Hawk, he's Mo' Caca."

This is just more racist "poppycock". :]

Allen would not know the Spanish/Portugese translation of anything, any S. African town, or a an obscure species of monkey. If Webb loses, he's a monkey.

racist is as racist does

It seems really unlikey that Allen knows his monkeys or his South African cities. What seems more likely is that he knows his vaguely 'savage' names - and all the better if that name incorperates that universal foriegn sounding term for feces.

Macacas are apes. In French-speaking Europe, "maquaque" is a a racist slur for anyone who is somewhat dark - skinned and who hails from anywhere but Western Europe.

I do not believe that George Felix Allen would know about this specific slur, given that his life experience with the world outside of his state is non - existent. Someone fed him this repulsive slur. Allen has always been a racist, anyway, but this latest manifestation is particularly heinous.

This is one more reason for voting against this revolting creature.

I stand corrected. I just checked out Allen's background, and it turns out that his mother was Tunisian, i.e., someone who was probably insulted daily by the French colonial establishment as a "macaque". So that is where our boy got the great idea of calling a dark-skinned kid working for his opponent a " macaca". Not only is Allen pissing on his mother's grave, he is exhibiting the same racist traits that his mother had to endure.

Way to go, Felix!

Does a US Senator have to curry favor by insulting a college student? Watch the clip--it seems clear to me that the Senator is annoyed at being taped and his comment about "Welcome to America" sounds like a threat to me. He's trying to incite the good 'ol boys against the "foreigner".

Oh, and isn't it ironic that the young man is a native Virginian and Allen was born on the left coast--in California?

...was according to Allen Italian, French, and Spanish. She was also Jewish (from the Lumbrozo family) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbroso

That is, she was a white North African of European extraction and as such might have used this term against indigenous North Africans, but not endured it herself. I could be wrong, but that seems much more likely.

Whether or not George Allen knows his monkies or not doesn't really matter. Does anyone think he would ever had referred to a caucasian person as "Macaca"? The origins and meanings of most racial slurs har unknown to most of the people who use them.

Just another ignorant republican, Senator yet. But look at the top echelon of that party, Bush , Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. etc. any further questions?

Can save this bonehead from himself...Yet another clueless bast*rd being foisted upon us as a viable candidate for public office.

Exactly how dumb does a person have to be to do what Allen did on this tape? Here is a candidate running for office and, in a public forum, he makes some very rude remarks to a person he knows is TAPING him for the opposition.

So Allen himself gives us more evidence of his own lack of intelligence as well as his racism.

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be." — Marshall McLuhan

Thank goodness their own arrogance often destroys the crafted image. Perhaps Allen is a graduate of the Conrad Burns School of Public Imagery.

The only reason the name "moolatte" works for Dairy Queen's coffee/milk beverage is because it calls up images of that other light brown American concoction, the "mulatto." Dairy Queen claims they had no idea, which maybe they didn't, but subconciously, the double meaning must have been in there somewhere, or else the name "moolatte" just makes no sense in the first place.

The same thing is going on here. Allen likely had no conscious idea what the hell he was really saying, but it was in his racist little mind somewhere that it was a savage, foreign term, with a hint of monkey-ness, an ideal way to rally his audience against the "other" in their midst. Time honored American political tradition, really.

>>The only reason the name "moolatte" works for Dairy Queen's coffee/milk beverage is because it calls up images of that other light brown American concoction, the "mulatto." Dairy Queen claims they had no idea, which maybe they didn't, but subconciously, the double meaning must have been in there somewhere, or else the name "moolatte" just makes no sense in the first place.>>

I always thought that name was weird, no one else I asked did. Thanks for letting me know I'm not alone out there! People just aren't that literate any more; they don't read history or classics, they don't know history, but know who won americn Idol.

As I understand, from the Rhandi Rhodes Show, George Allen's mother is from the Tanzania area and spoke French. Since the macaca is a French slang term, he most certainly would know and probably used the term as a kid. Then, don't take my word, do a little research. From what I've heard, caca means poop, ma caca means pile of poop.