The Media Research Center apparently will never get over the macaca thing.
In a May 17 NewsBusters post, Geoffrey Dickens was offended that one of the viral videos NBC’s Meredith Vieira cited to mark YouTube’s fifth anniversary was the 2006 clip of George Allen, then a Republican candidate for a Virginia Senate seat, calling a staffer for opponent James Webb who was videotaping Allen’s campaign appearance “macaca.” Dickens huffed that Vieira’s highlighting of the video and noting that it “sunk” Allen was an “unexpected cheap shot,” adding: “Vieira failed to point out what really drove the hits to the Allen video were the Democratic Party of Virginia and all of its enablers in the liberal media like NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and of course the Washington Post.”
Kyle Drennen, while not as huffy as his MRC colleague Dickens, documented in a May 24 post that the “Macaca moment” also appeared in YouTube anniversary pieces by CBS’ Katie Couric and CNN’s Howard Kurtz.
Um, guys? It’s been nearly four years now. Time to suck up that macaca and move on.