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Article: The giant panderer

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July 22, 2000
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Mark Steyn suggests that the vice president's attitude to race is redolent of the bigotry he tries so hard to avoid

New Hampshire

I JUMPED in my truck the other day, switched on the radio, and couldn't figure out who'd retuned from my favourite country station to what appeared to be a slightly barmy black evangelical preacher hollering in the most ludicrously exaggerated cadences. On the other hand, what he was hollering about didn't seem terribly pertinent: `I have made more trips to Africa than I have to Asia!' he roared at one point. Perhaps it wasn't a religious station at all. Perhaps it was a consumer show with some disaffected TWA passenger complaining about his air miles.

But no. ...

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