We’ve previously noted that the MRC’s Tim Graham had a hard time getting over the whole “macaca” thing after it arguably cost George Allen re-election as senator from Virginia in 2006. Apparently he’s still not over it.
A Dec. 1 NewsBusters post by Graham claims that because the Washington Post ran a short item noting what S.R. Sidarth — the campaign staffer for Allen’s opponent, Jim Webb, who videotaped Allen calling him “macaca” — is doing these days, “The Washington Post still relishes the moment that young S.R. Sidarth first launched the ‘Macaca’ boat.”
But wasn’t it Allen, not Sidarth, who “launched the ‘Macaca’ boat” by using the term in the first place? Why is Graham blaming the victim?