Last week we brought you the sordid tale of Sen. George Allen and his
magical "macaca" moment.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8200549670959213802&sourceid=zeitgeist

This week we proudly present Macaca 2: The Apology.

George Allen made a personal apology to S. R. Sidarth on Wednesday
August 23 - which is pretty impressive considering that Allen
committed the offense for which he was apologizing a mere 12 days
earlier on Friday August 11.

Why did it take him so long?

There are two possible reasons:

either Allen really is a racist ***** who was forced to make the
apology because he realized he was trapped in the middle of a
political train wreck and his campaign was going down the tubes, or...
well... let's face it, that's pretty much the only reason.

Allen literally phoned in his apology.

"He said he realized that I was offended through comments I had made
to the media," Sidarth said.
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149190161063

"I'm glad he did the right thing and called me and apologized to me.
I'm still not sure why it took the senator so long to talk to me. On
the whole, he did the right thing."

Good job Sen. Allen!

You screwed up big time, you apologized, and Sidarth graciously
accepted the apology.

Now let that be the end of it!

Oh, were it that easy.

You see, while Allen was readying his apology, his amusingly-named
campaign manager ***** Wadhams was preemptively retracting it.

According to Wadhams, the real victim in this whole brouhaha was
George Allen.

Here's a breakdown of a memo that Wadhams sent to "GOP leaders" on
August 19, courtesy of MyDD.
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/22/142134/457


"I think it is obvious that this past week was difficult one for
Senator and Mrs. Allen and the campaign.

It is very clear that the news media created what they call a "feeding
frenzy", with the Washington Post alone doing major stories on the
same issue for 5 consecutive days."

Yes, poor Senator and Mrs. Allen.

It's enough to make you yearn for the good old days when Senators
could just throw racist epithets at whomever they wanted without
having the stupid press jumping down their throats.


"Literally putting words into Senator Allen's mouth that he did not
say (by speculating, defining and attributing meanings and motives
that simply are not true), the Webb campaign and the news media
seeming worked hand-in-hand to create national news over something
that did not warrant coverage in the first place."


Look into my eyes, look deep into my eyes.

Senator Allen did not say macaca and has never said macaca.

That word was put into his mouth by the Webb campaign.

Also, he is not a big fan of the confederate flag.

When I snap my fingers you will wake up and you will have no
recollection of this conversation. 3, 2, 1, snap.


"Even after Senator Allen apologized to the Webb campaign staffer in
specific..."


...Allen didn't apologized to Sidarth until four days after this memo
was written...


"...and to anyone who may have been offended in general, the news
media continued to print and re-print the same speculations and
inaccurate portrayals of Senator Allen's comments."


I guess in Sen. Allen's Virginia, "macaca" is actually a term of
endearment.


"Never in modern times has a statewide officeholder and candidate been
so vilified in a desperate attempt to revive a campaign that was
fast-sinking - the Webb campaign."


See?

Allen is the victim here.

Stop vilifying him.


"Senator Allen has said that his comments were a mistake.

Who among us has not made mistakes?

In fact, how many of us could put in the hours of work, travel,
meetings, campaigning, etc. that Senator Allen has over the years and
make as few mistakes as he has?"


Wait a minute - he did make a mistake?

I thought he was being "vilified" for "inaccurate portrayals" which
"did not warrant coverage."

Okay, I'm going to skip ahead a bit or we'll sitting here listening to
***** Wad all day.


"The reason the Democrats run such negative campaigns and always play
the race card, is that they have no positive ideas to run on.

That is as true this year as in any other.

The fact that they have attempted to make race an issue so early in
the campaign is evidence of just how desperate they are."


Because obviously it wasn't Allen who injected race into the campaign
by singling out the only non-white attendee at his campaign event,
calling him "macaca" and saying "welcome to America."

Anyway as you can see, George Allen made a really, really genuine and
heartfelt apology to S. R. Sidarth this week.

What a guy.


By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Harry