Sen. Allen’s New Explanation for ‘Macaca’
Apparently, the Virginia senator was intending to call a rival campaign volunteer a sh--head when he called him "macaca." How's that work out? Read the explanation at The Hotline.Apparently, the Virginia senator was intending to call a rival campaign volunteer a sh–head when he called him “macaca.” How’s that work out? Read it below:
Wait, before you go…The Hotline:
What does Macaca really mean? Three Virginia Republicans confirmed to the Hotline that several Allen campaign aides and advisers are telling allies that the word was a made-up, off-the-cuff neologism that these aides occasionally used to refer to tracker S.R. Sidarth well before last Saturday’s videotaped encounter.
According to two Republicans who heard the word used, “macaca” was a mash-up of “Mohawk,” referring to Sidarth’s distinctive hair, and “caca,” Spanish slang for excrement, or “shit.”
Said one Republican close to the campaign: “In other words, he was a shit-head, an annoyance.” Allen, according to Republicans, heard members of his traveling entourage and Virginia Republicans use the phrase and picked it up. It was the first word that came to his mind when he spied Sidarth at the weekend’s event, according to Republicans who have been briefed on Allen’s version of the event.
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