Even I’m getting tired of N-word week

Loyal readers (hi mom) are likely as burned out as I am about the racist allegations flying around Virginia's senatorial campaign. Don't get me wrong – it is ALWAYS fun calling out hypocritical douchebags – but enough is enough…right?

I suppose it's only fair to end the week discussing the new allegations that have surfaced accusing Jim Webb of being every bit the racist as his opponent, George Felix Allen:

Daniel Cragg, a former acquaintance of Webb who supports Allen, says that he remembers Webb telling him in a 1983 interview about college trips to the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles 20 years earlier, when Webb allegedly said he would harass black residents…Cragg insisted that he remembered Webb telling him that he would "click the trigger" of an empty rifle in the direction of the residents, and utter racial epithets.

This sounds bad. However, the story was first reported by the Washington Post, which, conveniently enough, was lead to Cragg by the Allen campaign (all of Allen's accusers came forward on their own, were found by investigative reporters and/or had hoped to remain silent but had private e-mails made public by their colleagues). And lest we be confused, the stories about Allen involve first-hand recollections of people who witnessed the senator's racism; Cragg claims to have heard Webb admit to his indiscretions (the difference being allegations against only one of the candidates would be admissible as evidence in a court of law).

And how about this nugget?

Cragg said he expected to find evidence of the conversation on an audiotape of the interview, but the tape contained no such reference. "Either I turned the recorder off, or later I sat down and I deleted it," claimed Cragg.

Right, either you turned off the recorder, deleted it, or your dog ate it. I understand.

Listen, Jim Webb is no angel. He infamously penned a brief in 1979 entitled "Women Can't Fight" and spoke of a coed Naval Academy dorm as "a horny woman's dream". But let's get one thing clear: there is only ONE candidate in the race who tried to bully a brown-skinned man with a racial epithet, claim the word had no meaning, claim his staff made up the word, then again claim it had no meaning (who knows what the story is today?). There is only one candidate that posed for a campaign ad with a Confederate flag, much like he had posed with one in his high school yearbook. There's only one candidate whose college classmates went on record as hearing and witnessing his racism and only one who opposed a holiday honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jim Webb is no angel; but there is definitive proof that George Allen is a pompous, lying, arrogant, bullying racist. Isn't that enough to close the book?