Known Racist Allen Desprate to Find Dirt on Webb
Writing by on Monday, 30 of October , 2006 at 8:28 am
Powered by Gregarious (42)
I just love me some hypocritical tactics in the morning. George “Maccaca” Allen, the racist re-running here in Virginia is desperate to find some dirt on his Democratic opponent Jim (James) Webb. I mean Allen is having a hard time, Webb’s son is currently serving in Iraq, Webb was a deputy Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of the Navy. Jim Webb has more smarts in his little finger than George Allen has in his whole family.
So what does George Allen do, well I will repost what Sherry Greenburg posted on the California Majority Report…
It’s desperation time. Thursday night, VA Senator George Allen’s campaign leaked to Drudge salacious quotations contained in some books penned by Jim Webb. Allen’s campaign had been trying for weeks to get mainstream media to pick up the story, to no avail. Apparently, no one, except for Drudge, found years-old passages, contained in well-respected novels about Webb’s service in Vietnam, newsworthy. The leaked passages were about events Webb had witnessed. And, the books were so respected that John McCain was quoted on the book jacket of one of the books noting that the novel was an accurate representation of what soldiers witnessed in Vietnam.
Once the GOP used its time-tested conduit of Drudge to a Murdoch paper to Fox to mainstream media, stories of these passages permeated Friday’s news. But, something remarkable happened. Unlike when Kerry was swift-boated, Webb and Democrats fought back. Democratic talking heads noted, when they appeared on television on Friday, that (a) these books were about the real experience in Vietnam, (b) Webb had a distinguished record of serving while Allen was puttering around a dude ranch, (c) McCain endorsed Webb’s book, and (d) Lynn Cheney wrote a book containing lesbian love scenes, Scooter Libby also wrote a novel containing salacious material and Allen’s own sister published a book containing real life brutality she and her siblings experienced at Allen’s hand. The pushback was so effective that Lynn Cheney got into quite a dustup with Wolf Blitzer over her own prose.
Webb also did not hesitate to immediately repudiate Allen’s attempted smear. Early Friday morning, he appeared on local DC-area radio. And then, held several rallies over the weekend where he addressed this nonsense head-on.
Turnabout being fair play, on Saturday, the DSCC issued a press release demanding answers from Allen about a real controversy — why was Allen arrested in 1974? Records in Albemarle County show that arrest warrants were issued for Allen when he was a student at the University of Virginia. Allen’s camp claims that the warrants were for parking tickets and fishing without a license. There is a paucity of additional information in the courthouse, due to routine destruction of old records. Thus, the DSCC is demanding that Allen release his Virginia Bar application — a document which should contain his narrative of any arrests. So far, the Allen campaign has refused. If there is nothing to hide, why shouldn’t Allen release his bar application? Is it because the warrants were for something more substantial than what was claimed by his aides or did he fail to note, as required, the arrests?
If Allen can attack fiction as a supposed disqualification for Webb to hold high office, shouldn’t the truth of Allen’s own arrests be fair game? This is going to be an interesting week.
Share This
Category: Life in Bushs America, Republican Corruption, Racist
- Add this post to
- Del.icio.us -
- Meneame -
- Digg
No comments yet.
