The Macaca Whisperer
August 29, 2006 at 3:28 pm
Breaking news on the macaca front. From the BBC:
A species of monkey unknown to science has been photographed in India by an international team of researchers. The monkey, a member of the macaque family, was sighted in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, which lies in the country’s remote north-eastern region. Named the Arunachal macaque, the new monkey is a comparatively large brown primate with a relatively short tail. …. The last species of macaque to be discovered in the wild, the Indonesian Pagai macaque, was described in 1903. … The Arunachal macaque (Macaca munzala) is described in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Primatology.
Couldn’t find a quote from the Jim Webb campaign in the International Journal of Primatology. And no word whether they considered this scientific name, Macacaus Georgeallenus. But here’s an actual macaca –
Spank That Donkey said,
August 29, 2006 @ 4:07 pm
It’s a monkey.. Now where is the racial aspect of this? I’d like to know how the Dems make the leap from macaca to monkey to racial epithet? They are ones interjecting race.
Even if George Allen called a guy wearing a mowawk, Macaca; who has never callled someone a monkey, especially someone following you around everywhere you go? It’s obvious to everyone he was joking like you call a sibling a monkey!
It’s the Dems making this racial, even using the “N” word and where the heck did that come from?
I guess that is found in the Democratic Race Baiting dictionary, Al Sharpton edition, edited by Jesse Jackson, Sung by the Webb campaign.