Senator George Allen’s camp says the Salon article (posted and chain-linked below) quoting some former associates as saying he has used the “n word” in the past is categorically false.” They place the blame on the Webb camp. Details here. They also just posted this.
But then a reader sent me this and this.
NOTE: We will NOT be doing a blow by blow on this issue on this site, even though some readers say we could increase readership if we do. Each time we run something, another side sends something. We will report on major shifts in the campaign. We normally would not cover this campaign at all but it first burst into national news with the controversy surrounding the Webb camp running a cartoon that some considered anti-semitic. Then George Allen more than compensated for that by getting himself in trouble.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.