I was amused (and appalled) by a letter in the latest issue of the C-VILLE Weekly. A reader, Pam Sellers, had written in a few weeks ago, suggesting Sidarth was to blame for Allen's "macaca" remark, since his presence at Allen's rally provoked the senator. Someone else wrote in last week, criticizing her for blaming the victim. Now Ms. Sellers responds with this classic bit of wingnuttery:

I think that Daniel Stern missed the point of my original letter [“Macaca defined”, Mailbag, September 19]. If I thought for half a second that Mr. Sidarth were genuinely offended by Senator Allen’s comments, I might take a dimmer view of the Senator’s off-the-cuff remarks. However, I have a hard time believing that Sidarth went home and cried himself to sleep that night. More likely, he was overjoyed to have fulfilled his mission by obtaining a new 30-second sound bite for the Webb campaign. Pretending to be offended is utterly PC, and is, in itself, offensive.

Get it? Because Allen called Sidarth a monkey, and Sidarth happened to capture it on video, Sidarth is being offensive! Not only that, he's being -- gasp! -- PC! Yes, merely being the victim of a racial epithet now makes you "politically correct" (and it was a racial epithet; no more of this "liberals claim it was..." BS like I saw in the NY Times last week). I've said it before and I'll say it again: anyone who uses the term "PC" plays right into the hands of Limbaughian regressives like this.