Politics: George Allen back at the old foot-in-mouth game
- old George Allen, the former Governor and Senate candidate from Virginia, saw his political career flame out due to a video of him calling a rival campaign worker (an American of Indian ancestry) “macaca,” a racial slur. Allen denied knowing this.
- new Allen asked reporter Craig Melvin, who is black, on two occasions “what position he played.” Melvin told him he never played sports both times. He’s apologized, saying it’s how he banters, but the cost of this gaffe is yet unclear. source