Just What in the Hell Is a "macaca"?

It never ceases to amaze me how Democrats and Republicans fare so much differently in the media when it comes to ultra-sensitive issues like race.

Senator George Allen has provided the most recent firestorm with his use of the term “macaca” to describe a Democratic operative haunting his campaign’s every move.

Just one little problem with the senator’s “slur”: What in the hell does it mean?

Is it in reference to racial ethnicity? Sexual orientation? A debilitating mental handicap, perhaps, like always voting for Democrats?

Although no one can pin down the exact meaning of “macaca,” the liberal media has enough information with which to proceed in it’s relentless crusade to run Republican Allen out of town, the United States, and the universe if at all possible.

What makes reaction to Allens’s apparent faux pas so perplexing is the fact that Democrat politicians have used far more abusive language, and yet have survived nearly unscathed.

A classic example comes from California where Democrat Cruz Bustamante let loose with the Mother of all Slurs.

Bustamante was addressing a group of trade unionists in February of 2001, and while reciting a list of labor organizations that had the word “Negro” in their titles, Bustamante mistakenly blurted out the other “N” word—before an African-American audience!

Go here.

Of course, African-American and Hispanic activists immediately came to Bustamante’s defense by pointing out that the rotund little weasel had an impeccable record on affirmative action, civil rights, and blah, blah, blah.

Bustamante survived and ran for governor as a part of the Gray Davis recall in 2004, and holds office to this day as California’s lieutenant governor.

But Cruz Bustamante is a liberal Democrat. So the rules concerning hate speech, racism, bigotry and divisiveness did not apply because he did not really mean it when he trashed 30 million black Americans.

But let a Republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger slip and refer to a Latina as “hot” and the California hate speech police and the liberal media go absolutely barking mad!

Yet there is no double standard. Right?

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, California

Just What in the Hell Is a “macaca”?

It never ceases to amaze me how Democrats and Republicans fare so much differently in the media when it comes to ultra-sensitive issues like race.

Senator George Allen has provided the most recent firestorm with his use of the term “macaca” to describe a Democratic operative haunting his campaign’s every move.

Just one little problem with the senator’s “slur”: What in the hell does it mean?

Is it in reference to racial ethnicity? Sexual orientation? A debilitating mental handicap, perhaps, like always voting for Democrats?

Although no one can pin down the exact meaning of “macaca,” the liberal media has enough information with which to proceed in it’s relentless crusade to run Republican Allen out of town, the United States, and the universe if at all possible.

What makes reaction to Allens’s apparent faux pas so perplexing is the fact that Democrat politicians have used far more abusive language, and yet have survived nearly unscathed.

A classic example comes from California where Democrat Cruz Bustamante let loose with the Mother of all Slurs.

Bustamante was addressing a group of trade unionists in February of 2001, and while reciting a list of labor organizations that had the word “Negro” in their titles, Bustamante mistakenly blurted out the other “N” word—before an African-American audience!

Go here.

Of course, African-American and Hispanic activists immediately came to Bustamante’s defense by pointing out that the rotund little weasel had an impeccable record on affirmative action, civil rights, and blah, blah, blah.

Bustamante survived and ran for governor as a part of the Gray Davis recall in 2004, and holds office to this day as California’s lieutenant governor.

But Cruz Bustamante is a liberal Democrat. So the rules concerning hate speech, racism, bigotry and divisiveness did not apply because he did not really mean it when he trashed 30 million black Americans.

But let a Republican like Arnold Schwarzenegger slip and refer to a Latina as “hot” and the California hate speech police and the liberal media go absolutely barking mad!

Yet there is no double standard. Right?

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, California

Shortage of Virgins in Islamic Heaven?

Adnan el-Shukrijumah, al-Qaida field commander in Afghanistan, is reportedly warning Muslims to leave the United States because another major terrorist attack is in the works. Go Here

As one who is fascinated by Islam, I admit to being confused by Adnan el-Shukrijumah’s warning. On the one hand, I appreciate the fact that the man is kind enough to warn brothers in the Islamofascist movement of impending doom so that steps can be taken to avoid annihilation.

On the other hand, one of the more appealing aspects of Islam is the promise of 72 virgins commencing with one’s earthly death and ascension into Islamic heaven. If that promise is true, why would Adnan el-Shukrijumah “warn” the brothers to leave?

It would seem to make better Muslim sense for Adnan el-Shukrijumah to keep that information under his turban. That way, Muslim brothers fortunate enough to be caught up in the next attack could cash in on those carnal blessings promised in the Koran.

Perhaps there is another answer: Is there a shortfall of virgins in Islamic heaven?

Could it be that G.W. Bush and his coalition of infidels have created a virgin supply-demand imbalance by killing so many terrorists? An imbalance that is threatening to shut down the Virgin Redemption Center (VRC) in Islamic heaven?

What a pity that would be. All those horny Islamofascists robbed of their greatest incentive to murder and maim.

If that is the case, Praise be to Allah!

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, California