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Defending Allen's "macaca" remarks, Blankley claimed: "In Italian ... it means a clown"

August 25, 2006 11:48 am ET

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SUMMARY: On Hardball, The Washington Times' Tony Blankley stated that the word "macaca," "[i]n Italian, I'm told, it means a clown." The term was twice used by Sen. George Allen to refer to S.R. Sidarth, a volunteer with the campaign of Allen's Democratic Senate challenger Jim Webb.

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