Mike Stark Kicks Some Ass

You can take Calling All Wingnuts out of Buffalo and into law school, but you can't get Mike Stark out of the papers:

A man who identified himself as a law student confronted U.S. Sen. George Allen here today, demanding to know if the potential presidential candidate had ever used the n-word.

Mike Stark, in his early to mid-20s, also asked Allen, R-Va., why he had a Confederate flag and a noose in his office. The News Virginian confirmed that Stark is a first-year law student at the University of Virginia.

An Allen aide asked Stark to leave, while a staff person at the Holiday Inn in Staunton also told him to leave the premises.

The man paid $20 to attend a luncheon hosted by the Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce. The man stood with reporters waiting to interview Allen, then fired him questions.

“Is this an interview?” Allen asked. “I’ll be glad to talk to you afterwards.”

Allen aide David Nepp, stepped in and asked the man to leave.

“Are you with the hotel,” the man asked.

A hotel employee asked man to leave.

Stark is the same guy who's driven Limbaugh and other talk-radio clones to distraction, made O'Reilly call "Fox Security" and proudly displayed a "Hannity Sucks Ass" sign ON Hannity & Colmes a few weeks ago.

He's a one-man wrecking crew.

As for Allen, Dana Milbank wrote a piece today about how the "macaca" comment just isn't going away. In fact, it's the type of thing that will define Allen's entire career. I was, however, struck by this note from Milbank's article, which suggests that Allen is still trying some kind of racial identity strategy:

Yet Allen tiptoed around the issues of the day as he spoke to the local chamber of commerce. There was no mention of Iraq or the Middle East, not a word about terrorism and national security, and barely a mention of President Bush. And, addressing another all-white crowd, he labored to avoid even the hint of another macaca moment.

"We graduate 70,000 engineers every year; one-third are from another country," Allen said, before adding quickly: "Which is just fine."

The "which is just fine" is meaningless: he got out what he wanted to get out. Which is... hmm, just that "there sure are a lot of brown people 'round this country, vote fer me cuz we feel the same way about 'em."

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