Tourists enjoy themselves on the Dadonghai Beach in Sanya City, south China’s Hainan Province, Aug. 25, 2008. (Xinhua Photo/Zhao Yingquan)
How did the Chinese know these were tourists? (hee hee)
The header for this Chinese ‘beach’ scene is Beautiful Hainan Allures Tourists After Beijing Olympics. Hmmm… ‘allures’. I suppose these butt cheeks are pretty alluring, but they must look massive to the average Chinese.
The People’s Daily Online (August 26th) published five resort pictures all aimed at illustrating the Olympics afterglow, i.e. more revenue from relaxed tourists. Beijing Olympics=Prosperity (Ba Ba Ba)!
Speaking of fateful,
Ba-ack to Denver: So what do you think this Chinese newspaper said about Michelle Obama’s speech on Monday? How she grew up on the South Side of Chicago? How she was the daughter of a blue collar worker with MS? Not hardly, they said her speech was strategically aimed at reconciliation with the Clintons.
Speaking of the former First Lady, I really liked her convention speech. My favorite line was that short direct message to all her die-hard supporters: “I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me?”
Surely the Chinese were impressed with Hilary’s Harriet Tubman quote, though: “If you hear the dogs…If you see the torches in the woods… If you want a taste of freedom keep going.”
Just kidding, how could they ever make that freedom stuff available to the masses?
Speaking of masses, here’s exactly what the People’s Daily Online is saying about the powerful women players of the Democratic Convention. You might find it surprising that Nancy Pelosi is more newsworthy than most American politicians, all because of her previoius ‘anti-Chinese’ remarks. The Mao-like photograph is straight from the People’s Daily Online.
This Chinese obsession with Madame Speaker hails from March 2008 when Pelosi had the nerve to diss China for its crackdown in Tibet. She was visiting the Dalai Lama at the time, and the combination set off a massive anti-Pelosi bloggin spree in the People’s Daily Online which is still available for your viewing pleasure. I was impressed by the fervor of hatred. Here’s an oppinion that I posted earlier, but I think it deserves another go:
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks at the 2008 Democratic National convention in Denver, Colorado, Aug 25, 2008.
Once in a long while in History you get an anti Chinese Like Pelosi who have never experience spritual beings and culture. So, when she met the Delai Lama her feet got sweep off and she is drowned by an usual human beings in saffron robes. She went under her magical spell and is not in her usual sanity. A person of her standing suddenly became an illiterate and no history of what the Delai Lama came from. To her from heaven. So, to her just look down on her as a piece of shit garbage.”
Here’s the thing, folks, not many Americans listen to what Nancy Pelosi says. The fact is, I agree pretty much with this Chinese comment: “I don”t care what Pelosi is up to. Does she exist?”
Moving on. Another aspect of the Democratic National Convention that interested the Chinese was Denver’s pride in winning the bid, along with the massive security efforts involved:
“Hosting the 47th Convention carries a significant meaning to the city, which last hosted the event in 1908, exactly 100 years from now. “It’s the biggest event in the history of the city,” Richard Grant, a Denver city spokesman told the media.
After doubling police forces, Colorado state government still had to seek help from the neighboring state of Wyoming. ”
I think they are trying to say, see, everybody, America is a violent place, too, and has its own share of protestors—-just like China did during the Olympics.
The People’s Daily Online, in fact, made a pretty big deal of the ‘plot’ to “shoot Obama with a rifle from a high vantage point” —that’s what they kept calling it. There were back-to-back stories, Aug 26th and 27th: Wow! White supremacists are just not photgenic, folks! If you want to see three humongous mug shots of the ugliest perpetrators ever, follow this link to the People’s Daily Online.
Which reminds me, exercise your freedom to follow links while you still can, folks. What makes you think it’s gonna last forever?
Happy tales,
Laura signing off