Trail of intolerance
The Philadelphia Jewish Voice provides a nice summary of Macaca-isms by George Felix Allen. Scratch a Rethug, find a mean-spirited bigot.
George Allen's Twelve Days of Refusal
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For some, the use of a racial slur by a politician who thinks he is presidential material is absolutely shocking. But for those of us who know the real George Allen, the Senator's use of a racial slur is just another example of his 'Good Ol' Boy' intolerance.
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- Defending the use of Hitler Comparisons
- Cozying up to Radical Right-Winger Pat Robertson
- Reaching out to Southern Poverty Law Center-Designated Hate Group
- Forcing Virginia Public School Students to Study the Bible
- Displaying a Noose in his Office
- Embracing the Confederate Flag
- Ridiculing and Mocking Single Mothers Receiving Welfare
- Rescinding a Woman's Right to Choose
- Calling Homosexuality "Unnatural" and "Illegal"
- Forced to Apologize to Democratic Opponent for Implying that she Supported an Iraq Victory in the Gulf War
- Temper or just Plain Mean? In her book Fifth Quarter, Allen's sister Jennifer Allen outlines Senator Allen's mean streak and short temper.A Community Menace: When describing how George and her brother Gregory would destroy neighborhood mailboxes, Jennifer writes, "George would swerve his Mach II Mustang while Gregory held the baseball bat out the window to clear the mailbox of its post."Holding Sister over Railing at Niagara Falls: Jennifer writes, "Ever since my brother George held me over the railing at Niagara Falls, I've had a fear of heights."
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