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Now, now, Ganesh. Slim is, lest we forget, Barbelith's leading expert on terrorism, comparative religion, climatology and phrenology. If he can't pick the bones out of Kanye West, who can?
Ganesh's formulation seems closer to the mark. If Kanye had been focusing a bit more, he might more accurately have said "George Bush appears largely indifferent to the plight of these particular black people, who are poor and, if they voted at all, probably voted Democrat". That does seem like a bit of a mouthful, though.
Incidentaly, since as a Switchboard thread we may be in a position to broaden it out to look at the accuracy or otherwise of the West proposition, maybe the apple is not falling too far from the tree:
In a segment at the top of the show on the surge of
evacuees to the Texas city, Barbara Bush said: "Almost
everyone I’ve talked to says we're going to move to
Houston."
Then she added: "What I’m hearing which is sort of
scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is
so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you
know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she
chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."
Oh, Barbara, is it always this much fun in steerage? |
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