Sen. George Allen was tailed by a giant banana and a guy in a monkey suit at a campaign rally in Virginia on Friday (via DailyKos). Since when did political theater start cribbing from Chaplin?

He also changed his campaign schedule to duck protests over Macacagate:

Sen. George Allen… [bypassed] an afternoon stop in downtown Staunton for an unannounced lunch break at a local drive-in restaurant… after a man identifying himself as a University of Virginia law school student… forcefully [asked] the senator, “Have you ever used the word n–?” He also questioned why Allen… had once displayed a noose in his office. [Link]

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