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?