Well, I'm a day late, but Ben Tribbett has mentioned Jim Webb's "towel-head" comment.
According to his (majority Liberal) commenters, and Ben, Jim Webb's recently racist comment is merely "stupid," while George Allen's thiry-year-old racist comments --- assuming the verity of his accusers, which I don't --- are immediately relevant and disqualifying.
It's amazing what you can get away with when you have no shame.
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The amazing thing is that Webb was doing an interview, and for no reason at all decided that the way to reference people that you could make into villians, "towel-head" was the term that would best convey his meaning to his audience.
And he knew that "redneck" might be considered offensive, and gave a defense for it, but couldn't even IMAGINE that the word "towel-head" wasn't a word he should use.
And when his campaign had a day to consider it before publication, he STILL didn't see a problem with it, saying only that he hoped the paper wouldn't think to make a big deal out of it.
We could dredge up the pages of offensive outrage posted at DailyKos when Ann Coulter used the term. I bet they haven't said a thing about Webb using it.
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