How Dare You Accurately Report What I Said

5:39 pm EST October 24th, 2006 | News | 4 Comments

This is how the right looks at the media. Stephen Spruiell, National Review’s resident media basher, argues that George Allen’s problems aren’t his fault for actually making his racist comments but the fault of the Washington Post for the cardinal sin of reporting them.

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4 Responses to “How Dare You Accurately Report What I Said”

  1. dr pedro says:
    October 24, 2006 at 5:50 pm

    I was never able to fathom how the term “macacca” (sp?) was determined to be racist. Is it because it is an unused term for a monkey? Would it have been racist if he had said “that big ape over there?” Would it still be racist if the guy was oriental? It sounded to me like a nonsense word used in place of something more graphic like s.o.b. or something.

    Of course don’t let THAT stop you from deciding what his intent was, by all means.

    Which one of your echo chamber was it that was bemoaning other people deciding what he was thinking?

  2. Oliver says:
    October 24, 2006 at 5:52 pm

    Macaca is a known racial slur. Stop trying to deny it. It just gets tiresome.

  3. Dr. Anatole Gavage-Huskanoy says:
    October 24, 2006 at 5:58 pm

    Pedro, call a Brazilian ‘macaca’ some time and see if it’s a nonsense word.

    Allen’s mom is from French North Africa, where the word is a slur. That’s where Allen learned it. Proof? No. But it’s the likeliest explanation. Spin, spin, spin, Pedro.

  4. StarkyLuv says:
    October 24, 2006 at 7:30 pm

    That’s the right wing playbook to a TEE.

    NEVER be upset by the actual wrong-doing, illegality or scandal. But be OUTRAGED that anyone DARE report it! How did this get out? Who “leaked” it? Why are liberals using this as a “political football?”

    I remember right after Abu Ghraib(sp?) broke. One Republican senator bellowed on national television:

    “I’m outraged at the outrage!”

    ’nuff said.