Reply #9: Here's the real evidence of flopsweat desperation [View All]

[MADem]

Allen has his media flaks out telephoning every political reporter, begging them to pick up a story that is being shopped by one of HIS CAMPAIGN SUPPORTERS that Webb used to (this is funny, actually) go out into WATTS (during the riot eras) with FAKE weapons to "scare the local negroes as a prank."

Webb's school roommate at the time has vociferously denied the report, said "hell, he'd know" if it were true, and also pointed out that it was a heckuva fine way for a small pasty white boy to end up dead.

Really--can you picture it? No one in their right fucking mind would go skulking around Watts at night during that era or at any other time, with plastic machine guns. Unless they were suicidal. If I were armed in that area and came across some fuck waving a machine gun at me, I'd drop their ass without thinking twice. And be acquitted handily.

As for the story, the reputable, and even NOT so reputable outlets are refusing to pick it up until Allen's people can point to a single person who can verify the story, who was actually there, and who aren't GOP operatives. One notable exception, and it should be WELL NOTED, is the fucking Washington Post--they BURIED it, but they covered it, with NO second source, and NO credible verification--which tells you how far up the GOP ass they've crawled:

Webb's comments to the Times-Dispatch prompted Allen campaign officials to direct a reporter to Dan Cragg, a former acquaintance of Webb's, who said Webb used the word while describing his own behavior during his freshman year at the University of Southern California in the early 1960s. Webb later transferred to the U.S. Naval Academy.

Cragg, 67, who lives in Fairfax County, said on Wednesday that Webb described taking drives through the black neighborhood of Watts, where he and members of his ROTC unit used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at blacks to scare them.

"They would hop into their cars, and would go down to Watts with these buddies of his," Cragg said Webb told him. "They would take the rifles down there. They would call then , point the rifles at them, pull the triggers and then drive off laughing. One night, some guys caught them and beat . . . them. And that was the end of that."

Cragg said Webb told him the Watts story during a 1983 interview for a Vietnam veterans magazine. Cragg, who described himself as a Republican who would vote for Allen, did not include the story in his article. He provided a transcript of the interview, but the transcript does not contain the ROTC story. He said he still remembers the exchange vividly more than 20 years later....Todd said Webb denied the allegations in a conversation with her.

"He said it's not true. It's not even close to being true," Todd said. She quoted Webb as saying: "In 1963, you couldn't go to Watts and do that kind of thing. You'd get killed. So of course I didn't do it. I would never do that. I would never want to do that."