Posted on 01/18/2013 4:45:26 AM PST by Kaslin
Martial arts movie legend Jackie Chan deserves a rhetorical roundhouse kick to the mouth. So does his pal PSY, the Korean rapper whose "Gangnam Style" music video has racked up more than a billion views worldwide. Both men have raked in big bucks from Western fans while trashing the very freedoms and cultures that made them superstars.
Last week, The Washington Post spotlighted a recent interview Chan did with Chinese TV in which he accused America of being "the most corrupt country in the world." The Hong Kong-born Chan also admitted proudly that he is a propagandist for the Communist Chinese government. He openly advised his fellow countrymen to speak with forked tongues when addressing foreign press: "We know our country has many problems. We (can) talk about it when the door is closed. To outsiders, (we should say) "our country is the best."
Translation: Rampant sex-selection abortions? Shhh. Jailing political dissidents? La, la, la, can't hear you! Systemic religious persecution? State-sanctioned censorship? Continued brutality against Tiananmen Square protesters and Tibetans? Nothing to see here, move along, and down with America!
Turns out that behind the jovial cinematic persona, Chan is an unrepentant champion of authoritarian rule. Despite making a living as an entertainer and "humanitarian," Chan suffers a severe allergic reaction to freedom of speech and freedom of thought. In a separate interview last month with China's Southern People Weekly, he complained that Hong Kong had become a city of too many protests. "There should be regulations on what can and cannot be protested," Chan declared.
Earlier in 2009, Chan echoed Chinese Communist leaders in asserting that Chinese people "need to be controlled" because "if we are not being controlled, we'll just do what we want." God forbid!
This contempt for freedom of expression comes from an international box-office mogul who has topped the Forbes China Celebrity 100 list and has an estimated net worth of more than $130 million. Even more damning, Chan's own personal history is defined by the turmoil of Mao's Cultural Revolution. As the 2003 documentary "Traces of a Dragon" recounted, Chan's father and mother both fled China for Hong Kong to escape Communist rule. They left behind their original spouses and four children between them.
Instead of condemning the regime that wrought havoc on his family and imposed suffering and death on millions of innocents, Chan is China's most prominent mainstream apologist. Meanwhile, moviegoers in the "most corrupt country in the world" continue to help make Chan a wealthy man. This summer, his latest movie, "Chinese Zodiac," will hit U.S. theaters. Sylvester Stallone has invited him to co-star in the next installment of "The Expendables." And Chan is working on another Hollywood project involving his popular "Police Story" series.
Will American consumers allow themselves to be punched in the gut by this trash-talking action star? If the embrace of Chan's new pal PSY is any indication, the answer is yes. The Korean "Gangnam Style" performer once urged listeners to "kill those (expletive deleted) Yankees ... kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers."
Called out on the hate lyrics, he issued a hasty apology before performing for the president and his family last month. Instead of rejection, PSY continues to be courted by the American entertainment industry. He'll be working with Justin Bieber's producer and will make an appearance in a high-profile ad for pistachios during the Super Bowl.
At a Hong Kong awards show last month, Chan and PSY met for the first time. It was a mutual admiration society. "You are the legend," Chan said to PSY as a young audience cheered on. "One day you can make your dream come up. All the young people, never give up. One day your dream may come true, just like him. So proud of you."
"Yankees" -- especially those whose parents came to the United States from all parts of Asia seeking freedom from tyranny -- should shun these exploitative peas in an anti-American pod. They don't speak for me. Michelle Malkin is the author of "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies" (Regnery 2010). Her e-mail address is malkinblog@gmail.com.
I must admit that most hollywood stars do not ever shock me when they run their mouths, but I was genuinely shocked at Jackie Chan. It’s very sad because now I will never watch him again and my list grows shorter and shorter by the day.
Sorry
I wish she would not use the British media euphemism of lumping tremendously different people from more than a dozen countries together as “Asian”.
The British media does this to intentionally confuse the public, because of all the “Asian” people in Britain, the vast majority are peaceful, productive and good citizens, and *only* the Pakistanis are pestiferous, composing 15% of the British prison population, and the vast majority on welfare.
In practical terms, Michelle Malkin’s parents are from the Philippines. Jackie Chan is Chinese. PSY is Korean. To lump them together as “Asian” is like calling Americans “British”, or “Europeans”.
Or calling Filipinos (in the Philippines) “Americans”. Of course, once they become American citizens, they become “Americans”, which means you can belong to a lot of ethnic groups, but which one is indeterminate.
Agreed 100%. I have a long list of anti-American companies that I will boycott forever (starting with GM, Chrysler, Bank of America, Citi, and others involved in the massive TARP/Bailout/Bankruptcy corruption of 2008/2009), and anti-American entertainers that I will boycott forever (including Hanoi Jane Fonda, and many others, leading up to PSY and Jackie Chan). It’s a shame that companies would rather compete in the crony-capitalist politics of connections than in the free market, and that “entertainers” think having had plastic surgery or acting lessons entitles them to attempt to harm my country.
I never could make it through 5 minutes of Jackie Chan, that is real idiot entertainment.
By the way here is the List
Well said, Michelle!
Didn’t Michelle claim George Soros Spanish company really didn’t count the election vote? [in some states] or should I take my tin foil hat off.
Yet here she is decrying Jackie Chan's comments about America being corrupt??
WHY!!!
1)He pretty much has to tow the party line because they’re communist thugs
2) The Kenyan-in-chief and the rest of the politburo have made the government one of the most corrupt in the world
3) I don’t really know for sure his intent put one can’t argue with the truth!!!
Have you ever heard the saying, “Silence is golden.”?
No one forced him to say those words. He volunteered them. Therein lies the difference.
Maybe you missed this part. I didn’t.:
“The Hong Kong-born Chan also admitted proudly that he is a propagandist for the Communist Chinese government.”
There is where I draw my line. Whatever else he said pales in comparison.
Does he ever plan on coming back here again?
Not all that surprising: Jackie Chan is actually Chinese royalty. A prince, actually.
“Asian” is the politically correct euphemism for “Oriental.”
Chan, and others, are speaking under duress ~
In an earlier time we would have understood this ~ today we condemn the victims.
I'd beware of OTHERS who instantly attack Chinese in this situation. We've earlier had a problem where the Dalai Lama was severely criticized for mouthing pro-Commie slogans. He's living abroad ~ and has close relatives inside the Chicom maw ~ and we wonder why he's doing that ~ some of us don't wonder at all.
This will happen soon inside America itself.
Then there are the CHICOMS and BIG CHINA ~ EVERYBODY knows what that means.
All those guys who get to work abroad are Chicom propagandists ~ they do not have the choice to NOT do that.
um... Americans and British ARE lumped together... under the label “white” just as all Chinese, Filipenos, and Koreans and many others are lumped together under the label “Asian” unless you prefer ... yellow?
I don’t see what your issue is here.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.