Macaca Madness
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
We’re still trying to decide what Sen. George Allen meant when he called University of Virginia student S.R. Sidarth “Macaca” during a recent stump speech. Maybe he meant to say “macaw,” a bird with gaily-colored plumage? Or “Macarena,” the ’90s dance craze popularized by the band Los Del Rio?
Or did he mean to say that Sidarth was farkakte, a Yiddish word that loosely translates as “shitty”? Yeah, I’d think it was shitty too if I were running for Senate and my asshole opponent sent someone around to videotape every casual slur I made. Our readers were all over this last night and this morning. Read what they came up with after the jump:
We’re still trying to decide what Sen. George Allen meant when he called University of Virginia student S.R. Sidarth “Macaca” during a recent stump speech. Maybe he meant to say “macaw,” a bird with gaily-colored plumage? Or “Macarena,” the ’90s dance craze popularized by the band Los Del Rio?
Or did he mean to say that Sidarth was farkakte, a Yiddish word that loosely translates as “shitty”? Yeah, I’d think it was shitty too if I were running for Senate and my asshole opponent sent someone around to videotape every casual slur I made. Our readers were all over this last night and this morning. Read what they came up with after the jump:
