Professor says senator (Allen) used racial slur

[deadparrot]

RICHMOND, Va. - A noted political scientist joined one of Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record)'s former college football teammates in claiming the senator used a racial slur to refer to blacks in the early 1970s, a claim Allen dismisses as "ludicrously false."

Larry J. Sabato, one of Virginia's most-quoted political science professors and a classmate of Allen's in the early 1970s, said in a televised interview Monday that Allen used the epithet.

Sabato's assertion came on the heels of accusations by Dr. Ken Shelton, a radiologist who was a tight end and wide receiver for the University of Virginia in the early 1970s when Allen was quarterback. He said Allen not only used the n-word frequently but also once stuffed a severed deer head into a black family's mailbox.

Allen's campaign released statements from four other ex-teammates defending the senator and rejecting Shelton's claims.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060926/ap_on_el_se/virginia_senate

[TlalocW]

1. Cripes...

Isn't Sabato pretty conservative too?

TlalocW

[bluestateguy]

2. I believe he is a DLC Democrat

nt

[Buzz Clik]

3. Oh, those youthful indiscretions.

As if the Party of Family Values really cares.

[marmar]

4. Where there's smoke...

there's burning crosses. :scared:

[Binka]

5. I Hope Felix Brings His White Wonder Bread

Because that sum bitch is TOAST!

[Igel]

6. But he won't say how he came by his information.

"Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, would not tell The Associated Press how he knew Allen used the n-word. He told Chris Matthews on MSNBC that he did not know whether it was true that Allen used the word frequently while in college."

It's either observed, deduced, or attested to by somebody else. But in this case, it's 'Just trust me on this one, I'm not even going to say it's observed by me, deduced, or attested to by somebody else.' A statement that always triggers pretty much automatic rejection in peer review.

Sounds like hearsay. I distrust hearsay.

[Benhurst]

7. Boys will be boys.

Who hasn't spent their youth slurring ethnics and stuffing deer heads into mailboxes?

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

Remember, a vote for Allen is a vote for The Leader, so goose-step on down to your local poll and give the boy another six years in the Senate.

[rocktivity]

8. Yeah, like those college kids who burned down those five churches

back in February. The nerve of some people referring them as hate criminals and domestic terrorists! They explained that it was a joke that got out of hand, but what thanks do they get? "(A) federal trial this November that could bring up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines." No fair! Are you all so old that you can't remember what it was like to be a fun-loving, frisky youth engaged in harmless, wholesome hijinks?

:eyes:
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