Thursday, September 28, 2006
Allen Fires Back with Lies
A hell of a lot more credible than Allen's unequivocal bullshit denial; but of course, that's all the Allen campaign needed; it was off to the dirt races, the Washington Post reports:
Hmmm, so here's a journalist handed a news breaking story and he immediately does what? Oh yea, he sits on the story; you see Webb and he were best pals; and of course, no notes of the incident.Webb's comments to Richmond Times-Dispatch prompted Allen campaign officials to direct a reporter to Dan Crag, a former acquaintance of Web's, who said Web used the word while describing his own behavior during his freshman year at the University of Southern California in the early 1960s. Webb later transferred to the US Naval Academy.
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Crag, 67, who lives in Fairfax County, said on Wednesday that Web described taking drives through the black neighborhood of Watts, where he and members of his OTC unit used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at blacks to scare them.
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Crag said Webb told him the Watts story during a 1983 interview for a Vietnam veterans magazine. Crag, who described himself as a Republican who would vote for Allen, did not include the story in his article. He provided a transcript of the interview, but the transcript does not contain the ROTC story. He said he still remembers the exchange vividly more than 20 years later.
Spokeswoman Kristian Denny Todd told the Post that Webb vehemently repudiated this bullshit account.
"He said it's not true. It's not even close to being true," Todd said. She quoted Webb as saying: "In 1963, you couldn't go to Watts and do that kind of thing. You'd get killed. So of course I didn't do it. I would never do that. I would never want to do that."So let's examine the Allen 'get-out-of-jail' story advanced by his campaign next to the story for which Webb had absolutely nothing to do with:
At least five witnesses confirm that Allen used the N-word during his college years and later; all extremely credible witnesses with one even confirming the deer story --- even if he couldn't back up that the mailbox was that of a black family.
On the other side of the ledger, one lonely false witness miraculously comes forward at the behest of the Allen campaign.
By the bye, the devastating Watts riots of 1965 where 34 people were killed was the climax of racially pent up anger stewing over the years; the neighborhood was 99 percent black at the time.
Is anyone stupid enough to believe blacks were going to be scared off in their own turf by a few white jarheads?!? It would be equal to a few white red-necks going into Southeast DC and trying to scare off the boyz in the hood. This trumped-up story reeks of historical ignorance and Southern racial stereotypes.
Basically, it comes down to Allen throwing this lying story out there to ward off the accurate and faithful accounts of his past racism. He's trying to muddle the issue with the tried and true bait and switch tactic of the he-said-she-said-so-who-knows variety that the media always swallows.
Howling Latina reports, you decide.
A little projecting, aren't we?!?
Projecting (psychology) To externalize and attribute (an emotion or motive, for example) unconsciously to someone or something else in order to avoid anxiety.
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