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Really, did it ever leave? Sure, Allen’s been asked about it every time he’s been on tv since the incident (wherein he called a young man of Indian descent a term that may or may not be a racial slur in his mother’s native French-speaking north Africa, just in case you haven’t read a blog in a month), but we stopped paying attention to his answers once he got his story straight — it was a “made up word,” one that he’d “never heard before.” He said this on Meet the Press and the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Webb debate. It was that debate, if you’ll recall, where a reporter’s question about his mother led to the now-famous “casting aspersions” not-a-Jew-no-sir breakdown, which was promptly rescinded the next morning. See, he claimed, by saying he heard the word from his mother, they were calling her a racist.

Yeah, before Allen came up with his newest bit of damage control, he should’ve cleared the story with George Allen. The newest iteration of the sordid tale is after the jump.

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Deep breath.

• Last month, we learned that George Allen is secretly Jewish.

• Then, Senator Macaca was asked whether he was Jewish and freaked the fuck out.
• The next day, Senator Shanda fur di Goyim’s flacks convinced him to admit it (or to admit that his maternal grandfather was Jewish).
• Somewhere in between, he had an “Ethnic Rally” and a creepy family portrait (neither here nor there, but two of our favorite posts).
• Today, the Post found our favorite Allen family member, mother Etty Lumbroso Allen, and got her on the record about it all. What have we learned? Check in with us after the jump.

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That’s basically what we get out of today’s Post story on Allen’s belated embracing of his heritage. Controlling the damage wrought each time Senator Shanda opens his mouth is not a job we’d wish on anyone, and by all accounts, Dick Wadhams (heh) is a decent sort. So, years after he was first asked and a month after the Internet learned about it, George Allen is willing to admit this much: His maternal grandfather was Jewish. This would be the one who was in a Concentration Camp for reasons that Senator Macaca, well, lied about (but it was a totally Spock kinda lie — Grampa Lumbroso was almost certainly an “Allied sympathizer,” as the Allies were the ones who didn’t want to gas him). But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. A couple more thoughts, and an excerpt from sister Jennifer Allen’s hilarious book, after the jump.

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