Remember macacagate? The WaPo milked that one for all its worth, including the featuring of a three page puff piece on the ‘victim’ in macacagate: S.R. Sidarth, who is working on candidate Webb’s staff in order to get him elected this fall over Senator George Allen. This, after Allen apologized numerous times in the span of about a week for calling Sidarth ‘macaca’ – and was still apologizing for the remark as of last week.
Noticed this earlier and meant to post about it. Thanks to Greg Tinti for the reminder.
… and Al Franken blames the rumor on conservatives, even though it was the lefty blog Think Progress that broke the news to begin with 😉
My friend Les passed along this article written by Slate’s Deputy editor David Plotz, in response to an opinion piece posted by Frank Rich, columnist for the NYT, on September 10th. The actual column is behind the “Times Select” wall, but I did find a copy of it here after a Google search, so that’s my reference point. It’s titled “Whatever Happened to the America of 9/12?” Rich writes:
