Article: Drumming up ethnic hurts.(controversy over National Review cover depicting Pres Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Al Gore as Asians)(Column)

NEW YORK, MARCH 25

The grievance industry has an Asiatic division, and it is in overdrive against NATIONAL REVIEW in protest against its cover on the March 24 issue. What was on the cover? Let John O'Sullivan describe it. The three figures in the cover drawing "are shown in various Asian guises, each appropriate to his personality and/or part in the scandal. Mr. Gore was a Buddhist monk soliciting donations from the faithful; Mrs. Clinton was Madame Mao -- the more fanatically ideological partner of the Great Helmsman; and the President himself, all things to all men, took on the features, Zelig-like, of the Asian businessmen to whom he was serving coffee in the Oval ...

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