Chinese Pianist Plays Propaganda Tune at White HouseI gotta tell you, I'm not feeling the humiliation. When you bring commies into the White House this sort of thing isn't that big of a surprise. While the song may have meant something to the Chinese, it means nothing to me and I refuse to feel outrage just because someone says I'm supposed to.
US humiliated in eyes of Chinese by song used to inspire anti-Americanism
Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”
The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Are We Supposed to Feel Humiliated by This?
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Kinda where I'm at. Commies living in our White House....after that it does not much matter that they bring their Best Buds in and play their tunesw.
Still, that action lacks class.
So the Chinese can be proud of their crassness.
Losers.
I am sorry to have to report that we--meaning among others, you and me, are the losers.
The Chinese elites by any reasonable estimate or definition are the winners.
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