Word: slurs
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...with Iraq. In Washington State, Republican Mike McGavick, former chief executive of an insurance giant, is using the tag line "Real. Change" to challenge freshman Sen. Maria Cantwell (D), who has supported the war. A new McGavick ad uses the President's former "stay the course" mantra as a slur against Cantwell and says: "President Bush doesn't understand our frustrations." In Minnesota, three-term Rep. Mark Kennedy (R) is gaining on prosecutor Amy Klobuchar (D) with an ad that tries to level with voters. "None of us like war. And we've made some mistakes in Iraq...
...down. In the partisan world of political websites, there are few undecideds; we are not exactly a society of people who surf the Web to find arguments that we disagree with. So YouTube has mainly been useful for embarrassing enemies (popularizing Senator George Allen's macaca campaign-stump slur) or preaching to the converted (through videos of commentators like Michelle Malkin and Stephen Colbert...
...described how, after hearing the slur, Garcia approached the car. He said the car “half-parked in the second spot” at the corner of Bow Street, and the driver jumped out and attacked Garcia, yelling “faggots” while punching Garcia at least one time in the chest and two times in the head...
...congressional and Senate races more effectively than other groups of their size and relative inexperience. They are also the liberal rival to conservative "noise machines" like the online Drudge Report and talk-radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh. When Allen called an opponent's political operative by the racial slur macaca at a recent rally, the blogs touted the video, and the incident became a national story, contributing to a troubled campaign that has shrunk Allen's lead in his Senate race from double digits to 3 points...
...Such operatives are standard on the stump, and aides warn candidates to ignore them. But Allen, speaking at a rural picnic, took the bait. He singled out the Webb volunteer, who is of Indian descent, telling the crowd to welcome "Macaca." That's either a French--North African ethnic slur, a type of monkey or a contorted reference to a mohawk haircut--the guy has a mullet-like do--depending on who's translating...