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Saturday, October 26, 2013

GOPer Resigns after his Racism is Exposed on ‘Daily Show’ (Watch)

*A North Carolina Republican's inner bigotry exploded for all the world to see this week when he sat down with “The Daily Show's” Aasif Mandvi, notes The Hollywood Reporter.
Don Yelton, a Republican precinct chairman in North Carolina, resigned Thursday after making racially charged remarks on the Comedy Central show while defending his state's voter ID law.
In his “Daily Show” interview, which aired Wednesday, Yelton slammed "lazy black people that want the government to give them everything." He went on to admit he'd been accused of being a bigot before, but awkwardly added that one of his best friends was black.
Yelton also said the voter ID law was not meant to hurt African Americans, but rather would wreak havoc on the Democratic party because it would disproportionately affect Democratic voters. Yelton also noted that while Mandvi, who is Indian-American, looks different than he does, he treated the “Daily Show” correspondent just like anyone else.
"You realize we can hear you?" Mandvi said at one point during the interview.