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 Office.”
Now, that cover has stirred the ire not of Asian-Americans, who are too levelheaded to transmute caricature into race prejudice, but of defamation-seeking outfits that want to earn their keep. They are hectoring their constituents, pleading them to retaliate against NATIONAL REVIEW by, among other things, protesting to one of its advertisers, Toyota.
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