Brawny man
Not that this is going to happen, but how cool would it be if Obama chose Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) as his running mate, and McCain countered with Bobby Jindal, a minority candidate from the South who, unlike McCain, has reliably voted conservative? It would be the all-macaca veepstakes!
As you know, Webb won office […]
Authentic football, cowboy hat and Southern strategy
In a recent essay and news story, Republican insiders whinged about the loss of their Second Coming of Reagan, George Allen. They say he would have been president had he not been taken down by some upstart brown kid who enticed him — nay, entrapped him — into uttering […]
Michael Mucci of the Sydney Morning Herald drew this toon of a mean, sepia Jim Webb kicking George ‘Macaca’ Allen out of Congress (via Wonkette). I believe this is what’s referred to as an ‘ass kicking.’
The worst of several gaffes came when his campaign sent extracts from several of Webb’s novels…
“Fields of Fire has been […]
Frank Rich, who appropriately enough used to be the NYT’s head theater critic, speaks highly of S.R. Sidharth (via Kos):
… the “macaca” who provoked the senator’s self-destruction, S. R. Sidarth, was not an immigrant but the son of immigrants. He was born in Washington’s Virginia suburbs to well-off parents (his father is a mortgage broker) […]
S.R. Sidharth has earned some political capital, and he intends it spend it:
How awesome is that kid who elicited the “macaca” comment? That guy can say he single-handedly shifted the balance of power in Congress. I would totally do him…
My thoughts EXACTLY. I would TOTALLY do Sidarth in gratitude. (But really, he should probably just […]
Allen concedes. Dems win both houses of Congress.
“The Bible teaches us there is a time and place for everything, and today I called and congratulated Jim Webb…” [Link]
But the Bible also says this about immigrants:
But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love […]
Speak no evil
When Macacagate first broke, I felt profoundly disrespected and helpless. It wasn’t because someone had yelled a racial insult, because that happens all the time, but because the offender was a sitting government official who could slur with impunity, escape without repercussion and win reelection handily. That seemed as much an affront to […]
Democrat Jon Tester has just officially won the Montana Senate race with an apparently recount-proof margin of 4,000 votes. You’ll recall that the losing incumbent Conrad Burns is the charming fellow who called Arabs ‘ragheads’ and tried to link cabbies with terrorism.
Now control of the Senate comes down to Virginia’s expected recount, where no recount […]
From the CNN exit poll on the Webb vs. Allen race:
Like most Dems, Webb’s support is U-shaped by income, education and urbanness — the most and least wealthy, educated and urban supported Webb, while the middle supported Allen.
When voters made up their minds is also U-shaped. Those who decided well before Macacagate broke, the hardcore […]
Democrat Jim Webb has squeaked past incumbent George ‘Macaca’ Allen to win the Senate seat from Virginia. Webbro has declared victory.
The 8,359 7,050-vote margin is less than half a percent, which lets Allen request a recount after the vote is certified. Absentee and Provisional ballots still remain. Allen will probably try to subvert the recount. […]
It’s Election Day in the States.
Webbro offers you his protection… from macaca-haters.
Also, he’s got bowstaff skillz (apologies to Napoleon Dynamite).
For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost;For want of the shoe, the horse was lost;For want of the horse, the rider was lost;For want of the rider, the battle was lost;For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost,And all for want of a nail.
Well this is odd. Here’s an endorsement of George ‘Macaca’ Allen’s opponent Jim Webb on Fox News, from the standpoint of who’s more bloodthirsty. ‘I want a guy who’s got blood on his hands, not a football player.’ (via Crooks and Liars)
Interviewer: … Jim Webb has a son, the only one of all these nasty […]
Back in high school policy debate, we frolicked when we were blessed with tabula rasa debate judges. The game was to link the opponents’ plan to setting off as many nuclear wars as possible. The team whose plan caused the fewest nuke wars, won.
The nuke war decision rule did not play with mom ‘n pop […]
A desi Virginian pretends to shit on a roof and scampers about on all fours as a leashed, banana-eating macaca. The logo’s cute, but you might want to fast-forward through the clip — this approach to political satire makes me wince.
On Friday, George ‘Macaca’ Allen attempted to pass off a biography of himself as fiction…
Allen was also asked about passages in his sister Jennifer Allen’s book, Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach’s Daughter, in which Allen is described as a violent bully toward his siblings. “It was a fairly rough and rowdy family […]
The guy on the right gave his name as ‘Gogol Ganguly‘
A damning new WaPo profile of George ‘Macaca’ Allen shades in a portrait of a man who seems used to racism and casual violence:
[A former teammate] said he was offended by the Confederate flags he saw in Allen’s van and his campus apartment, especially […]
In March, Jim Webb, George ‘Macaca’ Allen’s opponent in the Virginia Senate race, went on the Colbert Report for a round of interview gotcha. (Watch Colbert calling Allen ‘dumb as a post.’) This clip is before Macacagate hit, before Webb loosened up and got more practice politicking. Webb comes across like a sergeant, not a […]
A Virginian conservative torn between George ‘Macaca’ Allen and Jim Webb strums a guitar and croons his pain politique in this downtempo (what the blues are called south of 14th St. ) music video. Very cute: