Seems we're finding out what more the Chinese faked at the opening ceremonies.
From the UK Telegraph:
The girl in the red dress with the pigtails, called Lin Miaoke, 9, and from a Beijing primary school, has become a national sensation since Friday night, giving interviews to all the most popular newspapers.
But the show's musical designer felt forced to set the record straight. He gave an interview to Beijing radio saying the real singer was a seven-year-old girl who had won a gruelling competition to perform the anthem, a patriotic song called "Hymn to the Motherland".
But the show's musical designer felt forced to set the record straight. He gave an interview to Beijing radio saying the real singer was a seven-year-old girl who had won a gruelling competition to perform the anthem, a patriotic song called "Hymn to the Motherland".
At the last moment a member of the Chinese politburo who was watching a rehearsal pronounced that the winner, a girl called Yang Peiyi, might have a perfect voice but was unsuited to the lead role because of her buck teeth.
So "more communist approved" Miaoke was brought in to lip sync. I bet she enjoyed the very kid friendly people they had help her learn to lip sync a song in a few hours, too.
Okay, folks. We've got to realize there is still evil in the world. Don't buy everything you see on TV, from the cover up of John Edwards AND John McCains affairs, Obama's crooked political relationships, child sex rings, slave labor in communist countries (which probably helped build half the Olympic sites) and continuing persecution of religious and miniority groups worldwide. I guess, as I'm on my soapbox, I'm simply asking that we not let the corrupt power players of our world lull us into turning a blind eye to injustice... even if it does make our enjoyment of the Olympic games more pretty and entertaining.
2 comments:
Apparently the massive crowd doing the "letter turning" were not allowed to leave for bathroom breaks, so they were wearing "paper diapers."
1. Isn't that considered cruel and unusual when you don't allow bathroom breaks?
2. PAPER diapers? That's how they described them on NPR this morning. Now THAT is cruel.
Heh. I guess the GOLD MEDALS are fake too. Gold painted lead. Nice one, China! That's not going to create associations in the minds of millions. Way to dispel the stereotype of "cheap knockoff" and "sub-par products."
Well, the US is cleaning up in silver and bronze anyway, so maybe it's just as well the gold is fake.
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