Posted on 05/04/2020 7:57:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
It looks, at first, like one of a zillion unfunny video clips that now circulate on the internet: Once Upon a Virus features cheap animation, cheesy music, and sarcastic dialogue between Chinarepresented by a Lego terra-cotta warrior with a low, masculine voiceand the United States, represented by a Lego Statue of Liberty with a high, squeaky voice. They speak in short sentences:
We discovered a new virus, says the warrior. So what? says the Statue of Liberty.
Its dangerous, says the warrior. Its only a flu, says Statue of Liberty.
Wear a mask, says the warrior. Dont wear a mask, says the Statue of Liberty.
Stay at home, says the warrior. Its violating human rights, says the Statue of Liberty
The dialogue goes on like thatIt will go away in April, the Statue of Liberty says at one pointuntil it ends, finally, with the statue on an intravenous drip making wild and contradictory statements while the warrior jeers at her.
Although this looks like an Im-bored-at-home amateur production, it is not: The video was published on April 30 by Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. It has since been promoted by Chinese diplomats and watched, as of yesterday afternoon, by more than 1.6 million people around the world.
It has also been mocked and denounced as crude propagandawhich, of course, it is. Crude propaganda is what Chinas leaders do, both at home and abroad, and since the pandemic began they have stepped up their efforts. But even those who are mocking should beware: Anybody who knows any history will be aware that propagandaeven the most obvious, most shameless propagandasometimes works. And it works not because people necessarily believe that all of it is true, but because they respect the capabilities or fear the power of the people who produced it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Appletree needs a one way trip to China
The biggest mistake propagandists make is being 100% one direction or the other, which for most things is statistically impossible. They claim the slightest climate change is 100% bad and 100% the fault of man, which couldn't be true. They would be far more credible, and far harder to detect, if they went for an 80%/20% mix. But they are unwilling to risk that 20%.
The leftist news media used to try for an 80/20 ratio to maintain some fig leaf of credibility, but Trump triggered them to throw all that out the window.
(excerpt) The video was published on April 30 by Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency.
4 May: The Federalist: A Rundown Of Major U.S. Corporate Medias Business Ties To China
by Chrissy Clark
MSNBC & NBC
Both MSNBC and NBC News are operated by NBC Universal, a company with extensive financial ties to the CCP. In November 2010, NBC signed an agreement with Chinas state-run media organization, Xinhua, to establish a business cooperation in international broadcast news. This was the latest market expansion by the CCP into American media.
Since the signing of the business deal, the U.S. State Department identified Xinhua and five other Chinese state-run media organizations as foreign missions. They have been identified as direct CCP operations and do not function as independent news outlets.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/05/04/has-china-compromised-every-major-mainstream-media-entity/
as for the rest of the world laughing at President Trump...that would be the writers hack media buddies.
people all over the world are asking: why can’t we have a President Trump?
Exactly!
Before this all started, the rest of the world was in awe of the American economy and told President Trump they were amazed at how quickly he turned things around.
After the Chinese virus knocked the world on it’s collective a$$, these same countries asked President Trump for ventilators and other supplies, because they didn’t have them and in many cases, could not make them.
The rest of the world laughed even harder at Reagan. Who was this washed-up B movie actor who ended up in the White House? His election was obviously as sign that America was on its last legs. By the end of his second term, the Soviet Union had withdrawn from Afghanistan, and not just the Warsaw Pact, but the Tsarist empire itself, was on on life support.
Applebaum is long past her expiration date. Another neocon jackass, all in on the Trump hate because she is a bigtime Ukraine State department project shill.
Marxist, America hating, east coast liberals uniformly suck butt and know absolutely nothing about the real world and how it works.
What the hell reads this rag?
The person who has the final, decisive move or victory in a feud, quarrel, or competition is the only one who is truly successful.
China is the paper tiger, we are the sleeping giant. Keep poking and you will regret it China.
“Dear Lord, please let Trump have a 2nd term if for no other reason than to irritate people like this.”
AMEN!
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The rest of the world being
all the world media propagandists
mouthing American media propagandists....
Just another day of laughable projection.
When I was much younger (in Australia) the media all around the world used to portray Reagan as an old fool teetering on senility. I bought that bs at the time until I came across his speeches online. That was my final straw with the lying media. Thank God I got out from under their evil influence. Today’s Trump haters are I’ll informed mainly because they choose to be. They laugh at the President to ingratiate themselves with others without ever checking for the truth. Let’s hope Trump and those who vote for him in November have the last t laugh and keep laughing as he gets to change the courts for decades. Let’s all chuckle as he brings back the country better than before. Does anyone think Joe or any of the Democ rat’srats are up to that challenge?
She is an ugly , anti-American skag!
Actually the world is laughing at the Atlantic and wonders how it makes money.
More Leftist projection...good!
It means PDJT’s execution of Sun Tzu’s Art of War is going well.
Yes. Even in MA they had a protest.
Yes.
‘Dear Lord, please let Trump have a 2nd term if for no other reason than to irritate people like this.’
why would the Lord have any interest in who wins a political election...?
Nuke the chicoms to hell. Their antiquated nuclear stockpile doesnt stand a chance against modern American weaponry. How about them apples?
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