ChiComs Pissed at Spielberg
[Update: Hey, maybe the Chinese should hire this guy!]
The nerve of the guy — objecting to China’s sovereign right to abet genocide. Why must people sully the Olympic spirit this way? What does hat say about their priorities?
“A certain Western director was very naive and made an unreasonable move toward the issue of the Beijing Olympics. This is perhaps because of his unique Hollywood characteristics,” it said.
Over the weekend, the Guangming Daily, also published by the Communist Party, ran an editorial saying Spielberg “broke his promise to make his contribution to the Beijing Olympics and betrayed the Olympic spirit.”
He “is not qualified to blame China because he knows nothing about the great efforts the Chinese government has made on Darfur,” it said.
An editorial in the China Youth Daily was equally scathing.
“This renowned film director is famous for his science fiction. But now it seems he lives in a world of science fiction and he can’t distinguish a dream from reality,” it said. [AP, via Yahoo! Movies]
Oh, zing. Something (I think it’s the Associated Press) tells me that the ChiComs would have been better off without the hyperbolic reaction, which only draws more attention to what a bunch of complete assholes they’ve been about Darfur and the Olympics. I can just imagine how their Netizens are distinguishing themselves. But the prize for Orwellian apparatspeak goes to this nob:
On Wednesday, the head of marketing for the Beijing Olympics defended China’s stance on Darfur and appealed to activists not to pressure sponsors to pull out of the games.
“China has been doing a lot toward the resolution of the Darfur issue,” said Yuan Bin, director of the Beijing Olympics marketing department. “I want to say the Olympics should be kept nonpolitical.”
Because we all know that China would never politicize the Olympics, right?
At the rate they’re going, China will be lucky to have any support from the western world. Props to Spielberg for having a pair and standing up for human rights.
~The Truth is Out There~
What I don’t get about Speilberg is that he condemns China for human rights but goes and visits Castro and claims he just spent the “eight most important hours of my life†hanging out and worshiping Castro while every month boat people on rafts from Cuba drown in the Gulf of Mexico trying to escape the place.
So I don’t give Speilberg much credit because he just toting the line of the Hollywood liberal mindset. Now he can be the toast of the Hollywood cocktail parties again.
Good point……I also don’t know why he basically remade a perfectly fine movie when he did Munich…….and though I didn’t really have any particular heckles raised by the movie….other than to think it had been done already and wasn’t surpassed to a level to make it really worthwhile redoing……watching his opening commentary made me feel differently about it all – in a negative way…….
…….and after GI Korea’s comment, I just wonder if we’re going to have to live through him flying down to Venezuela with Sean Penn, Alex Baldwin, and Robert Redford any time soon….???….
……at least we most likely won’t see him get to the point he is wearing Che Guevara (designer) t-shirts and carrying a Mao tote bag…..(I hope)…
Wow, that’s news to me. I never saw that article before. You asshole Spielberg you….
Thanks for the info.
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In can condemn Spielberg for getting Castro wrong and still appreciate him getting China right. But of course, it’s inconsistent.
I am considering not going to the Olympics in China. I have been to Beijing on a few occasions and the last time- I saw an appalling act by a police officer.
I was in front of a shopping center owned by the government (many major buildings in China are government owned-many stores and restaurants are also government owned).
Outside the shopping center, on the sidewalk, was an old man selling socks. The police officer went up to the old man -smacked him in the head and grabbed his bag of socks. I guess the Chinese government fear the competition. The look on the old man’s face was a killer for the trip and I think the old man’s week.
When I visit Beijing, I always try to avoid the government owned places, but it is almost impossible. If the place is not owned by the government, then the place is rented by the government to private individuals. If the place is not rented to the government – the land is owned by the government and the building owner is paying for the right to use the land.
I can just imagine how their Netizens are distinguishing themselves.
Chinese BBSes – where angels fear to tread. They will probably get Spielberg wrong, but they do get KJI and North Korea right. He and the NK regime are favorite targets of Chinese netizen scorn.
Let’s hope Spielberg’s exemplary moral fortitude serves as a tipping point–or at least a rallying cry for those who stand athwart tyranny yelling “stop!”