The Allen campaign has not adopted limbaughs "explanation."

[BOSSHOG]

Isn't it sweet how Media Matters cuffs about those who lie for the sake of their political party?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200608180001

limbaugh said one of his Spanish employees told him "Macaca" simply means clown. So there you go lemmings, ain't nothing wrong with allen. and limbaugh said that that would offend someone living in an immigrant community. Never mind the man called Macaca by allen was born in Virginia.

Said a republican close to the campaign, allen didn't use a racial slur, the word actually meant, they guy was "a shithead, an annoyance. There ya go again lemmings, case closed.

Thanks george for changing the tone.

A toast to Media Matters - AGAIN!

[NewJeffCT]

1. Does "macaca" really mean "clown" in Spanish?

I don't know much Spanish, so I'd have no idea.

[rep the dems]

14. I just looked it up. No, it doesn't.

[a la izquierda]

2. I've never used it...

I used "payaso" for clown. But it could be slang.

[manchild]

3. Now this is funny or really sad...

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1059689597&n=2

Bush might have found a replacement

...This is a political ad from 2004 for some redneck running for president...

[newyawker99]

13. Hi manchild!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[underpants]

4. So what we have 6 excuses now?

there was the mohawk excuse
then there was the "bad tape couldn't make it out what he said" excuse (yes you could)
then there was the silent let's hope no one notices it excuse (Sen. Allen I would like to introduce you to the electronic age and YouTube)
then there was the shithead excuse
then some more mohawk
now this

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

5. Sorry Rush, but you don't get to define this one.

The offended parties do. Nice try, asshat.

[shain from kane]

6. Did his maid tell him that? Don't macaca (clown) around with

Oxycaca or you'll end up in deep pig caca.

[Cha]

8. limpballs called his Spanish

maid..the one who turned him in for taking black market oyxcotin and asked what that "macaca" really means? "I gotta straighten out millions of sheep on this, muy pronto!"

[gratuitous]

9. That's where Limbaugh got his wires crossed

When he called his maid, she was calling him a clown, not translating "macaca."

Man, this story just won't quit, will it? Too bad for George Felix Allen.

[shain from kane]

7. From Yahoo Spanish Dictionary ---

ma·ca·ca/ma-ca-co (added entire word)

adj.
America ugly, misshapen
Puerto Rico foolish, silly
m.
zoology macaque
Mexico bogeyman
Honduras small coin
f.
zoology female macaque
Chile entomology large coleopteran
colloquial (borrachera) drinking spree or binge

As I would interpret these meanings,

As a male noun, the only item that could possibly apply would be "bogeyman". But I think that would be "macaco", rather than "macaca." The Puerto Rican version for "foolish, silly" would be an adjective.

[Bandit]

10. So does a US Senator think it is dignified to call anyone a name

of any type. What exactly does dignity mean anyway?

[kwolf68]

11. 'Clown' makes no sense

Why would you call someone just standing there listening to you speak a clown? Was this young man from the Webb team hopping around on one leg, wearing floppy big shoes, with a painted face and big red nose????

What a load of steamy horse-shit. I use the term clown ALL THE TIME. I typically call a friend a "clown" for doing something....get this...SILLY. Clowns are SILLY. You don't just call some adversary you don't know who isn't doing anything but standing there a clown.

I CALL BULLSHIT

[AlCzervik]

12. payaso---clown