MISSED ONE

It looks like George Allen may have slipped one more racially insensitive comment past us. 

I've got a call into my source at the Allen campaign to get their take- but when I realized what he was saying- this one is pretty bad also...

DEVELOPING...

UPDATE:  Youtube is down- but Republitarian has a transcript of the Allen video.  Check this out:

Allen in Video:  "So it’s good for you to see what it’s like out here in the real world. Rather than living inside the beltway."

For those of you who don't know Northern Virginia- "inside the beltway" are the neighborhoods filled with minority voters...

It's basically the equivalent of having an all white event in Chesterfield County and pointing out the only black person as "living in Eastern Richmond" or being at an all white event in Williamsburg and pointing out the only black person as "living in Petersburg". 

Did Allen know what this meant?  Watch the video when it comes back up- when he says that, it is the only time he stops himself mid sentence and changes topic.

Then in his WaPo apology- he does it again!

Allen in apology:  "Allen said that by the comment welcoming him to America, he meant: "Just to the real world. Get outside the Beltway and get to the real world."

Almost half of Northern Virginia is inside the beltway!  That's about 15% of the entire population of Virginia.  Why aren't our Virginia neighborhoods "the real world"?  Does the real world need to have a lighter skin tone Senator? 

Oh, and by the way Senator Allen, Sidarth lives in Dunn Loring which is outside the beltway.  Too bad you took one look at him and assumed otherwise.

So what do you think? Did Allen say he lived "inside the beltway" to insult Sidarth- or was the comment not race based- in which case he was insulting the 1 million Virginians who live there?

UPDATE:  Download nls.wmv

Comments

[Matt in VA]

Geez... when will it end... this is really depressing, I've known Allen had a history for a while but hearing it all from different sources just gives it so much more depth.

[phriendlyjaime]

Allen is the most racist Californian in the country, huh?

[Matt]

Hmm...

I would've thought his handlers would've gone into full damage control clampdown by now.

YEESH!

[Matt]

Hmm...

I would've thought his handlers would've gone into full damage control clampdown by now.

YEESH!

[Matt in VA]

Yeah, really, if Wadhams is Rove 2.0 as everybody claims, he's certainly not nearly as effective at subverting freedom of the press.

Which is a great thing, by the way. We could use fewer Roves in the world.

[Not Don Rumsfeld]

I think you'd have a dickens of a time finding anything that George has said that's insensitive. Stop all this henny penny bloggy talk and get back to pushing intervideos of kittens being cute through the intertubes.

[Matt]

No...no more kittens...
now see what you've gone and done, we have to send lottery balls down the tubes because they're darn clogged with kittens, although the tubes are most definitely not a truck.

[PM]

You mean Hollywood moguls? Yes, it can be code for Jewish liberal.

Here's a book on the subject . . .An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (Paperback)
by Neal Gabler. It's on Amazon. One review says:

"From Library Journal
Gabler has written a thoroughly researched history of the early Hollywood film industry and the men who ran it. Coming from similar humble Eastern European and Jewish backgrounds, Fox, Laemmle, Meyer, Zukor, and the Warner brothers shared an overwhelming desire to achieve wealth and status in their new country. Finding barriers to success through traditional means, they gravitated to the fledging film industry where they "could simply create a new countryan empire of their own, so to speakone where they would not only be admitted, but would govern as well."

[Not Don Rumsfeld]

Look in a free society kittens are going to get stuck in tubes. Is that ok? No. Can we do anything about it? No. Can I ask myself questions all day? Yes. If the tubes start to leak, we can seal them with actual baby seals. It's back breaking work, but someone has to do it.

Now please, whatever you do, stop this kerfluffle before I.Publiclyeatcheetos, Charles and the rest of my fighting 101st keyboarders get upset and have to take extra medicine. They have other liberal agitators to fight on other fronts and I do believe they've had enough of this toupee flipping madness.

[pm]

Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II. By Steven Alan Carr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 336 pp.

Despite its title's protestations, Carr's book is not a cultural history of the complex and multifaceted topic of Hollywood and antisemitism. Instead, the book limits its focus to antisemitic responses to the Jewish presence in the film industry and particularly to the Jewish Hollywood moguls, which Carr argues can be used to trace American anti-Jewish attitudes from the 1880s to World War II. The strength of Carr's presentation is his comprehensive documentation of what I would call "antisemitica" relating to Jewish Hollywood, including newspapers, magazines, ephemeral materials, memoirs, novels, posters, plays, and congressional reports...

[Dannyboy]

It can't be as good as the last one. There was a video and everything. A story, no matter how telling, can't beat physical, tangible evidence.

[The Frugal Revolutionary]

KKKarl Rove must not be answering his phone today. As soon as he does they'll come out swinging. Or should I say "flinging"?

[Virginia Centrist]

Hmmm. I hope the new slur isn't related to "Hollywood moguls". That'll be a huge disappointment.

Now this one is hilarious. If you think "inside the beltway" is a racially insensitive statement then you've completely sold your soul to Webb. Heck, Webb himself has said that one of his strengths is that he hasn't spent his entire life "inside the beltway."

The macaca statement was bad but you're completely demeaning its significance by playing up "inside the beltway."

I expect to see the full story in this post. . . .tomorrow

NLS has officially JUMPED THE SHARK when the phrase "inside the beltway" gets a multiple toupee alert.

[Virginia Centrist]

Oh, sweet, nevermind. Yeah, that's good stuff.

NLS has officially JUMPED THE SHARK when the phrase "inside the beltway" gets a multiple toupee alert.

NLS has officially JUMPED THE SHARK when the phrase "inside the beltway" gets a multiple toupee alert.

[Not Larry Sabato]

Allen was directing the inside the beltway to Siddarth as an individual. That's a totally different statement than saying you haven't spent your life working inside the beltway.

[Matt]

Listen NDR, you and I both know that kittens will get stuck in tubes, but you publicly proposing more kittens in tubes is something I will not stand for, I believe we must come to a compromise, and puppies in tubes will be acceptable.

Also, I don't believe using baby seals to seal the tubes is ethical at all. Actual babies on the other hand..now we're talking

[Roanoker]

Ben, you're losing credibility here.

[Sean]

Dude, this one is absurd. I'm with you on the Macaca thing (though for slightly different reasons than you've latched on to), but criticizing someone for being inside-the-beltway as somehow racial code is preposterous. That is standard campaign fare when someone is campaigning outside of NoVa, and I believe you'd probably be the first person to make a racial link there.

[Not Larry Sabato]

Roanoker- you don't understand what the "inside the beltway" neighborhoods look like.

Ben- Inside the beltway has nothing to do with racial issues. You had a good day yesterday, but you've really stretched it here.