"News" Flash: Southern Senator Possibly Racist, Certainly Slimy

In the growing battle for the race to become the next Distinguished Gentleman from the great state of Virginia, George Allen is ahead at least in terms of being distinguished. The incumbent senator is fighting off Democratic challenger Jim Webb in one of the many hotly watched elections this cycle.

Allen, while generally running a good campaign thus far, stepped in it big time this week when he referred to a young man of Indian decent as a "Macaca". I'll be honest with you, I don't know what a Macaca is, but the vox populi has apparently found it to be gasp-worthy, so who am I to go against a scandal?

WaPo reports the story here of what Allen is doing in the way of damage control. My personal favorite so far is his insistence that he actually meant to say "Mohawk" and that irrespective of any possible racism, he loves the Indian community "in his heart". All this despite being a senator who used to like to wax poetic on the subject of the Confederate flag and prominently displayed a noose in his office. In Virginia, it would seem, Robert E. Lee may have surrendered but George Allen never did.

ATTENTION INDIAN COMMUNITY OF VIRGINIA: This may be your only warning. Please don't screw it up for the rest of the state.