So what's one of the first things Allen does when he gets a tracker of his own?  Allen, knowingly looks directly into the camera, and lets loose with comments that will certainly get him in the very troubling position he hopes to catch his opponent in.

Brain dead.

Now this is where Allen's handful of defenders come out with some real garbage like "No one is that stupid - he clearly wouldn't use racial slurs if he KNEW the camera was recording his every word".

Yeah, right.  Looks to me like he pulled an oldie from his bag of slurs and for some idiotic reason thought that no one would figure out what he's talking about.

Stupid for saying it and stupid for falling right into the very trap he set out for Webb.

How George Allen can play like the homespun Virginian anymore, if he's using obscure french racial epithats agaisnt people, then i'm pretty sure he's showing the rich elitist that he is...hmm..i think he shot himself in the foot doubly

I wonder what Ben has now...

Maybe we should have had someone follow Allen around during the Robb campaign?

The Casual Observer and I attended high school with George Allen in Palos Verdes Estates, CA back in the late 60's. Allen and I were both in the class of 1970. Allen's father was coach of the NFL Rams at the time and was a well-known and respected man in the community.

The Allens lived in a beautiful custom home high on a hill with a great view of the ocean and city below. Palos Verdes is a wealthy community 20 minutes south of the LA airport set apart on a hilly peninsula.

Palos Verdes High School was a block from the ocean near high cliffs. Kids who went to "PV" High tended to look down on those who didn't live on "the hill," as it was known. George Allen was one of those kids. Given his pedigree, he was made quarterback of the varsity team senior year. He wasn't a talented player, but he had a lot of attitude. He also had a lot of Confederate flag stickers on his car - very odd in Southern California. {By the way, Allen was born in Whittier, CA. He didn't arrive in Virginia until his dad became coach of the Redskins in the early 70's.}

In the fall of 69 the PV High football team was scheduled to play the Morningside Monarchs, a predominently black team from down on the flatlands. During the week before the game, a bunch of racist graffiti was spraypainted on the outdoor walls of Palos Verdes High. It looked to be the work of vandals from Morningside. However, the word "Monarchs" was misspelled, and suspicion almost immediately fell on George Allen. He fessed up and was forced to apologize over the school PA. School officials made sure the incident was not publicized. They didn't want to see Allen's father embarrassed. Allen had done it to stir up racial tension between the schools -no other reason.

George Allen is a Racist

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

Immigrants in the Washington region, whose numbers now top 1 million, are more highly educated than those nationwide, data show.

Poor timing Felix.

BTW, does anyone else suddenly hear our junior senator's name with a heavy French accent?

George (soft g's) Felix (e & i with a hard e sound) Allen (nasal n.

Maybe its just me...

On August 31, 1967, George Romney, the voluble, vigorous three-term governor of Michigan and former automotive executive, walked into a Detroit TV station to be interviewed by a local broadcaster with a lousy hairpiece. For more than a year, Romney had been talked about as the Republicans' best chance for winning the White House in 1968. But the national campaign trail, at first welcoming, had become bumpy. Reporters pressed Romney repeatedly to explain his ever-evolving and often confusing position on military involvement in Vietnam, which he had strongly supported after a visit to South Vietnam in 1965 but later declared a tragic mistake. Polls showed his lead fading.

So, during that August interview, when he was asked to explain his inconsistent position on the war, Romney replied, "Well, you know, when I came back from Vietnam, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get."

There, he said it. One word, brainwashing, and his presidential campaign would never recover. Worse, that one politically charged word became not just the shorthand for his aborted White House run, but the bumper sticker for his entire life's work. Forget the poor boy who rose, Horatio Alger-style, to national acclaim. Forget the visionary of Detroit, who successfully championed the compact car over what he termed "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Forget the straight-talking politician who steered Michigan government from financial ruin and pushed through a new state constitution.
In the four decades since that interview, there has been a Pavlovian response to the American political trivia question, "Who was George Romney?" Answer: The brainwashed guy.

Team Felix is in panic mode right now...

I'm sure this has been parsed already, but there is a lot to learn from this little video, and it is very disturbing.
Allen was angry, for some reason. And he had stored away in his head what he thought was his own little private word for nigger, learned from his mother. He made a conscious decision to use it.
And most interesting is what happens in his mind right afterwards. Many thousands of hours in front of a camera allow me (forgive this, but it's true)the ability to practically read Allen's mind here.
He is thinking about that word 'macaca' long after he says it, wondering if he can get away with using it, and deciding that he can....he is is thinking all this and his mouth is on automatic...
Notice how he misuses 'his opponent', and 'my opponent' twice. This happens because he is not thinking about what he is saying. He is thinking about what he JUST SAID; 'macaca'. It is so clear. He knew exactly what he was doing.
In addition to the hatefulness, we also see revealed an almost compulsive risk-taking by Allen that should disqualify him from positions of high responsibility.

I re-watched the video and is it glaringly obvious that A. Whitney is correct...

And what is with those people hooting, yelling and applauding?  You people have any sense of propriety or decency?

This is from WashPost's "The Fix" article on this situation, in the user comments.  Who knows if it is true.  But it's sure as heck interesting:

Here is a quote from the president of the University of Virginia, Patricia Cormier at UVA's commencement exercises in Spring 2005 introducing Senator George Allen:

"A little known fact about Senator Allen is that his undergraduate education was enhanced substantially by his excellent performance in French class, taught by none other than Dr. Raymond Cormier, visiting professor of French at Longwood, and my husband! I have up here on the podium the gradebook, and he got a very good grade. No wonder the senator can applaud his superior education."