This is fantastic! It's so sweet and sing-songy that it's almost like a glimpse into George Allen's ignorant dreamworld.

Apparently, djezi is also doing theme music/mash-up for the new progressive, political flick from the guy who did Wag the Dog -- it's at TomDobbs.com

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From WikiPedia:

Macaca
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Macaca (also written as macaque) is a dismissive epithet used by Francophone colonials in Africa for native populations of North and Subsaharan Africans.[1] It is derived from the name of the genus comprised of the macaque primates.

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Usage
The first European settlers in the Congo Free State derogatively referred to natives as macaques, according to an anonymous Italian account: [2]

Later, in the Belgian Congo, colonial whites continued to call Africans macaques and insist that they had only recently come down from trees. The term sale macaque (filthy monkey) was occasionally used as a insult.[3]

In the ceremony in 1960 in which Congo gained its independence from Belgium, Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a speech accusing Belgian King Baudouin of presiding over "a regime of injustice, suppression, and exploitation" before ending "We are no longer your macaques", as the Congolese in the audience rose to their feet cheering.[4]

In the Adventures of Tintin written by Belgian writer-artist Hergé, Captain Haddock uses the term macaque as an insult, along with other terms with racial overtones.[5]

In a 1994 essay, literary scholar Patrick Colm Hogan discussed the racist symbolism surrounding the name Makak, the protagonist in Derek Walcott's 1967 play Dream on Monkey Mountain.[6]

English gossip columnist Taki Theodoracopulos referred to Bianca Jagger, who is of Nicaraguan origin, as macaca mulatta in 1996. Theodoracopulos has frequently used racial slurs in his published work.[7][8]

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Macaca and the George Allen Campaign Incident
The epithet gained wider attention as the result of an August 14, 2006 incident in the Virginia senate campaign in which Virginia Senator George Allen, during a campaign event, specifically singled out a volunteer with the opposition campaign of James H. Webb named S.R. Sidarth, because he was videotaping[9] the event as reconnaissance for the Webb campaign at the time, and used the word twice to refer to him. Sidarth's heritage is Indian-American and so the remarks ignited a controversy. Allen has stated that he did not intend the remark as a slur, while his campaign variously insisted the word was either a play on mohawk [10] or a portmanteau word combining the words mohawk and caca to indicate shithead.[11] However, Sidarth maintains that his hairstyle was not a mohawk, but a mullet hairstyle. Moreover, by Allen's own admission, his mother is a caucasian French colonial born in Tunisia who emigrated to the United States following World War II.[12] In Tunisia, the word "macaca" is used as a racial slur.

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Mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, Repugnican Cracker!

Be Outraged! Be at the Polls on November 2!

Sir Ossis

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Is the name of the fellow who was insulted and singled out at the event. He also the person who filmed the footage, and the person who goes un named and un credited in this post that seems to care nothing about him. This is nearly as vulgar as the senators initial remarks.

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If "Hakuna Matata" according to the disney song from the Lion King means, apparently (I'm too lazy today to look it up right now) "No worries for the rest of your days"

Then, does the title of the article say,
"Don't worry, monkey?"

Politics get stranger every year... tsk tsk.

Rev. Don

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