Posted on 08/14/2008 6:26:56 PM PDT by indcons
Holden Caulfield, call your office. I have discovered the promised land of phoniness.
During Friday's opening ceremonies in Beijing, a 9-year-old girl named Lin Miaoke sang a ballad to a packed stadium and a billion TV viewers. But the voice coming out of our TV sets wasn't hers. It belonged to a 7-year-old girl named Yang Peiyi.
The Communist Party decided Peiyi had the better voice, but Miaoke was better looking -- so they created a phony hybrid of the two. "The reason was for the national interest," said Chen Qigang, general music designer of the opening ceremonies. "The child on camera should be flawless in image, internal feeling and expression."
Only in Communist China is being phony considered a "national interest."
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In fact, Beijing itself has been turned into a sort of giant shrine to phoniness.
Three-metre high "culture walls" have been erected in front of shabby neighbourhoods, to block tourists' view of the undesirables. In other cases, crumbling buildings have been hastily covered with phony facades.
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The city was shamelessly phony even before it got the Olympics: When IOC officials came to evaluate the location in 2001, the government sprayed thousands of gallons of green paint on dead brown grass.
You have to be a giant phony to even think about doing something like that.
Phony tykes, phony gymnasts, phony lawns, phony buildings. If the Beijing organizers were looking for a theme, I guess they've found one.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Ping....more exposes on the manufactured chicom image.
Wanna guess if their military is phony?
Well the expression “Potemkin Village” has been around for a long time to describe this sort of thing.......
The Red Chinese are about as phony as our DemocRATS! They create something and always present it as “the truth.” The problem is, a lot morons fall for it everytime.
The Red Chinese are about as phony as our DemocRATS! They create something and always present it as “the truth.” The problem is, a lot morons fall for it everytime.
Just when I think I can’t loathe China anymore than I already do. How do they do it? I guess it’s an art form to them.
Very well said
BTTT
bunch of sick freaks
sorry....forgot to ping you
Those same phonies somehow managed to accumulate five hundred billion dollars in U.S. treasury securities.
Cities in the U.S. do things like this for events like the superbowl. I’ve seen it first hand.
Geez, you can’t seem to find enough excuses for the ChiComs, can you? You did the same thing on the live thread when you compared Kent State and Bull Connor’s water cannons to the Tiananmen Square massacre and other Chinese atrocities.
What I stated is fact. Cities do go to great lengths to clean up blighted areas before major events, such as the super bowl. But,nby all means, don’t let the facts get in the way.
And, you’re correct. I did compare American atrocities to Chinese atrocities. Sorry that everything doesn’t fit neatly into how you want it to be.
Ummm....they didn’t clean much. All the chicoms did was to wall off entire neighborhoods.
You can compare gnats to elephants, but we will still consider you an idiot or a liar.
Hahahaa! That cartoon is great.
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