Is it cool for Rachel M. to show...

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

George Allen saying "makaka" then describe it as an offensive racial epithet? Wouldn't just saying "he called the man an offensive racial epithet and is Senator no more" suffice? Is it cool to repeat some offensive racial epithets? Why do you suppose Rachel thinks it's OK to repeat this one?

[dsc]

1. Should we sanitize all news or only news you don't like.

[msongs]

2. you are repeating so you must not think its some sort of bad thing :-) nt

[bigwillq]

3. I think it's fine (nt)

[bravenak]

4. Ha ha! You just did it too!

[MADem]

5. It's "macaca" and that clip is FAMOUS. If you haven't seen it, you either lived abroad,

are very young, or watched Faux exclusively during the Webb-Allen race.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

8. No it's not. I bothered to look it up

[MADem]

13. Apparently you're using a German dictionary, or something. You are using a non-standard spelling.

Proof:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56212.html

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/154755-macaca-moment-remains-close-to-surface-for-allen


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400589.html

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

10. It is FAMOUS so she takes YOU for an idiot

[MADem]

11. What? nt

[Major Nikon]

14. Friday night postings tend to be more entertaining

Just sayin'

[arcane1]

15. The letters PWD come to mind

[MADem]

23. Ah, thank you-- that explains it!

I truly think those are two activities that do better when separated one from the other!!

[MADem]

20. Is "entertaining" a synonym for something, I have to wonder?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. There are many offensive racial epithets, some worse than others

That particular one had to be explained to most people because they'd never heard it before.

Unlike, say, "the 'n'-word", I don't think there's a way of describing that word without saying it. Can you suggest a way?

[elleng]

9. Because it IS, it was and is news.

I wouldn't use the word 'cool,' but surely useful to make the point. And, as muriel v said, that particular term is/was little known.

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

12. But the statute of limitations has expired, that is, unless...

She thinks her viewers are idiots and forgot it's an offensive racial epithet.

[MADem]

17. By itself, it is NOT "an offensive racial epithet."

It is a term to describe a monkey.

It BECAME offensive when it was used to describe the young Indian intern who was filming Allen on that day.

http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/factsheets/entry/rhesus_macaque
Rhesus macaque
Macaca mulatta

[whathehell]

19. There's no "statute of limitations"

and I doubt she thinks her viewers are idiots.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Oh for goodness sake

[MADem]

18. I think we need to consider the source, here... nt

[yuiyoshida]

21. Rachael Maddow is very inteligent

In fact, she owns a doctorate... I trust her judgement about how to present the news, and it looks like you got locked out of your own thread. Oh well.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

22. Weird but brief flare-up.

A hide saved OP from him/herself.

[MADem]

24. Not the first one in the last few months, apparently... nt

[Omaha Steve]

25. I missed all the fireworks

Love Rachel.

[Lil Missy]

26. It's fine. n/t

[Kalidurga]

27. I don't know I suppose she could have commented on something else.

but, it's cool you got locked out of this ill conceived thread.

[NanceGreggs]

28. Is Rachel next on the schedule ...

... to be thrown under the bus?

Perhaps DU needs an "Under the Bus" group, just so we can all keep up.

[world wide wally]

29. As if the Bears don't do it enough themselves, you are embarrassing the logo