They are bent on cementing the image of George Allen as a raving racist.
WASHINGTON -- Three former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s.
"Allen said he came to Virginia because he wanted to play football in a place where 'blacks knew their place,'" said Dr. Ken Shelton, a white radiologist in North Carolina who played tight end for the University of Virginia football team when Allen was quarterback. "He used the N-word on a regular basis back then."
A second white teammate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from the Allen campaign, separately claimed that Allen used the word "nigger" to describe blacks. "It was so common with George when he was among his white friends. This is the terminology he used," the teammate said.
A third white teammate contacted separately, who also spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of being attacked by the Virginia senator, said he too remembers Allen using the word "nigger," though he said he could not recall a specific conversation in which Allen used the term. "My impression of him was that he was a racist," the third teammate said.
Shelton also told Salon that the future senator gave him the nickname "Wizard," because he shared a last name with Robert Shelton, who served in the 1960s as the imperial wizard of the United Klans of America, a group affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan. The radiologist said he decided earlier this year that he would go public with his concerns about Allen if a reporter ever called. About four months ago, when he heard that Allen was a possible candidate for president in 2008, Shelton began to write down some of the negative memories of his former teammate. He provided Salon excerpts of those notes last week.
...The racial attitudes of Allen, a once formidable presidential contender in 2008, have become an issue in his highly contested reelection campaign against Jim Webb, a former Marine and author. Last month, Allen was videotaped calling an Indian-American college student "macaca," an obscure word for monkey that is also used as a racial epithet in some parts of the world. Allen has since apologized to the student, saying that he made up the word, and did not know its other meanings.
Last week, Allen again created controversy by appearing offended when a reporter asked about the Jewish lineage in his mother's family, which he has since acknowledged. Allen has also faced questions about his affinity for the Confederate flag, which he wore as a pin in a high school yearbook photo and exhibited in his home in Virginia.
This article by Michael Scherer goes ON and ON to detail what a disgusting, racist pig George Allen really is.
By any standard, it's a hit piece.
Bill Clinton flips out about being the victim of a "conservative hit job" because Chris Wallace posed a totally fair question.
Compare that with Scherer's hatchet job on Allen. Compare that with The Washington Post's macaca obsession.
It's clear that the Left is digging up anything they can to destroy George Allen.
Allen's former teammates coming forward?
That's ridiculous!
Why didn't they surface before? Where were they when Allen ran for governor or the Senate?
Gee, do you think that any of Robert "I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time" Byrd's former Ku Klux Klan colleagues will come forward and give details on his blatant racist attitudes?
What about Joe "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent" Biden?
What about Hillary "I love this quote from Mahatma Gandhi - who ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years" Clinton?
Will people out of their pasts step forward to give details about the depth of their racism?
There's an obvious double standard.
These attacks on George Allen are part of an orchestrated smear campaign. It's the politics of personal destruction in action.
It's ugly, pure and simple.
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