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If You Are A Chinese TV Host, Do NOT Call Mao Zedong An "Old Son Of A Bitch"
When China’s equity bubble burst and the SHCOMP tumbled unceremoniously back to earth on the back of a harrowing unwind in the half dozen or so backdoor margin lending channels that had served to pump CNY1 trillion into an already inflated stock market, Beijing went looking for scapegoats. The ensuing crackdown on "malicious" sellers and "hostile foreigners" as well as a directive to reporters to avoid using certain phrases such as "rescue the market" served as poignant reminders to the world that although China is indeed making small steps towards liberalizing its markets, outcomes deemed undesirable by the Politburo will be "corrected" - and right quick.
Similarly, when a viral documentary about the country’s pollution problem began making the rounds back in March, the government moved quickly to suppress discussion as FT reported that "propaganda authorities directed news outlets not to publish stories about Under the Dome, the emotional first-person documentary by a former state television anchor."
Given the above, and given everything we know about China’s propensity for censorship in all its forms, you can imagine that one thing you would not want to do in China if you were, say, "one of the most recognizable faces" on a state-run television station, is call Mao Zedong "an old son of a bitch," but that’s exactly what Bi Fujian did back in April, and now Beijing’s media watchdog has "recommended" that Bi be "severely punished." Here’s more from The Guardian:
One of China’s best known television presenters is to face "severe punishment" after being caught on camera referring to his country’s Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, as an "old son of a bitch".
As the host of “Star Boulevard” - a Britain’s Got Talent style variety show - Bi Fujian was one of the most recognisable faces on state broadcaster CCTV.
The 56-year-old had worked for the channel since 1989.
However, Bi’s future at the channel was cast into doubt in April after he was filmed at a private dinner mocking Chairman Mao, who founded the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and ran it until his death in 1976.
The video – which has been viewed more than 480,000 times on Youtube – shows Bi entertaining fellow diners with a rendition of a song from a Cultural Revolution era opera called Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy.
The television host peppers his table-side performance with a series of sarcastic asides about Mao, including: "Don’t mention that old son of a bitch – he tormented us!"
While Bi and his dinner guests may have gotten a good laugh out of what looks to be a generally good natured joke, it’s "that old son of a bitch" that will likely have the posthumous last laugh, because the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television has deemed Bi’s behavior "a serious violation of political discipline" for which there is "zero tolerance." Here’s The Guardian again:
News of Bi’s punishment was splashed onto the front pages of many Chinese websites on Sunday with readers weighing in on the episode with thousands of comments.
"It is really pathetic and disgusting that after all these decades Mao is still a taboo," wrote one. Another commented: "Bi should be seriously punished and expelled from the party for insulting Chairman Mao."
And even though Bi has already said he feels "extremely pained" about his behavior, we suspect, based on the State Administration’s comments on Monday, that the "pain" may just begun.
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Poor man. The words I would have used would have secured a public execution.
Miffed
How about mass murderer. How about totalitarian son of a bitch. How about loser.
He shall be severely punished. And those captured in the video laughing at his repugnant remarks shall be summarily executed.
Seriously though, I wonder how Megyn Kelly would interrorgate the poor guy for this perceived offense?
At least 40 million killed under Mao:
http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Mao
The equivalent would land you in indefinite detention without charge in the good old USA. In China they only fire you.
you'll know china hasn't really 'turned a corner' until mao pictures are taken off of their currency; ideally, replaced by shu qi or someone like that...
L-MAO
State terrorist at work.
Now that China's flirtation with capitalism is turning sour, expect the old commie hard line to come out. Which is bad news for Chinese citizenism with a sense of humor.
lol...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDa1W9CE7L8
Yup. And here, the BRICS nations are supposed to be such paragons of virtue...but if that were true, then why are so many of their peoples still basically living in serfdom? This applies to all the BRICS nations, where their standards of living are still far less than those of us here in the west - at the moment. I do need to clarify.
And here, the BRICS nations are supposed to be such paragons of virtue.
The BRICS are upset because a bunch of corrupt banksters and their operatives took over the international monetary system. They want an equal seat in the corrupt fiat derivative laden system. Trying to play the corrupt game on their own is giving blowback.
America is being molded into their form of centralized government control. What do the BRICS think about implementing a Bill of Rights into their government structures in order to manage a decentralization process. I don't think we'll see that anytime soon.
Next time I'd try 'dumb old bastard'. In China and Texas, 'SoB' can cost you an ass whoopin.
In Texas, "Son of a Bitch" calls Chuck Norris, "daddy."
texas talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhaap42I2sc
I had no idea Mao's mom was a bitch. The stuff I learn here...
Son of a bitch is such a compliment for the greatest mass-murderer in human history:
Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who had unprecedented access to official Communist Party archives said yesterday.
Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing "one of the worst catastrophes the world has ever known".
State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond; parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/maos-great-le...
Mao was a sexual predator:
So, was the great leader a sexual predator? Yeah. Pedophile? No. Virgin deflowerer? Probably on occasion, but there’s little evidence it was a regular thing. These may be fine points, but that’s what we do.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3150/was-chairman-mao-a-pedophi...
Yaley.
General Jack D. Ripper: Your commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own.
I signed in just to vote up...Wow, never heard this about Mao, but considering that he's a mass murdering socialist, it's to be expected.
Sounds like Mohammed's story. A child molesting pervert.
Did I Say Sum Ting Wong?
Hung So Lo
Won Hung Lo
And this is our biggest trading partner. Thanks Nixon through Obama. I need some more TPP for my bunghole.
Honesty will be severely punished.
Governments hate it and they have almost all the guns.
At least he didn't draw a cartoon version of the old son of a bitch.
Some cultures just can't take a joke.
Infidel!!! ;-)
Technically speaking....
all males are sons of bitches.
Hitler was demonized for a lot less corpses than Stalin and Mao made both of them look like amateurs at the murder business.
Son of a bitch is a fucking compliment.
But, comrades, you must break a few eggs to make an omlette.
Maybe that guy just watches a lot of old seinfeld episodes.
https://youtu.be/Zhaap42I2sc
https://youtu.be/zTMixF2Iwy4
How can he be bad? His face is on the money.
(Channeling MDB)
I don't speak Chinese but I'll tell you one thing - that bastard sure as hell can't hold a fucking tune.
Mao was a piece of shit and If I could re-animate the fucker to kill him over and over again just to give him what his victims had when killed, I would. Fuck that disgusting sloth piece of donkey shit. He can eat my ass.
Bi has a date with a Makarov...soon.
Communism being a construct of Banksterism makes Mao their most effective agent to date.
The best part is, that opinion is shared by 99% of China's elite, just not in public.
Off with his head!
Lets face facts. Mao is burning in Hell where he belongs... as are most of his followers.
We know Hell exists for the 10's of millions of his victims but sadly not necessarily for him.
That is why justice on this plain is essential to check and prohibit tyrants of his ilk from emerging and proliferating without consequence. Anything after that is just a bonus.
God helps those who help themselves.
Friends, I agree with every criticism here put forward. But, as in the case of Stalin, there is another side to all this. Throughout most of recorded history, China was the mightiest, most innovative country in the world (exceptions: Ancient Greek Democracy, Italy around the times of Leonardo and Galileo). But China was not interested in conquests and imperialism, so parts of China were eventualy conquered--first by the English, and then by a host of barbarians, culminating in the most savage conquest of them all, that of Japanese fascists. How would you feel if untold numbers were tortured, treated as sub-human, and enslaved? How would you feel if your ancestors were forced to become opium addicts? Income inequality and hunger were also horrible then. Mao started China on the path of independence and regained strength. Was it worth the horrors? To me, definitely not. Was it necessary on that scale? No. But the fear of Western or Japanese conquests was real, and based on historical precedences. That is why many Chinese are ambivalent about Mao. You have to understand that side, ignore Western self-serving brainwashing, before evaluating that horrible man. Why don't we have such denigration in these pages of the Rockefellers and Rothshcilds too, even though they surely brought more misery--and no benefits--to humanity? Simple: All commenters here so far are the products of Western brainwashing.
Almost got me there. You are pretty good. But one thing you can't account for: once Mao met your Rockefeller NWO slave, Kissinger, Nixon decoupled from the gold standard and then signed lucrative trade pacts with China...which, when looked at now, reveals that Chinese fortunes grew at the exact same rate that American inflation - and DEBT - increased.
This wealth transfer was PLANNED, as set up by your toady Kissinger, who promised Mao the world if he would follow NWO plans. And all of this happened after China was very much beyond being conquered militarily.
So why don't you just take your 'brainwashing' rhetoric and SHOVE IT UP YOUR FUCKING ASS.
(sorry, but I've wanted to tear Rockefeller a new one for a very, very long time...don't take it personally)
When Nixon and Mao met, the latter supposedly asked the former "so, how long do you think can we avoid going to war with each other?". Both knew that a rise of China would eventually lead to some form of war. For now that is an internet hacking war and some financial battles here and there but could it turn into a military conflict?
You sound like my exwife, "it is always someone else's fault".
A millenium of Confucuian theocracy enforced by successive Emporers led to China's ineptitude. The theocracy's focus on materialist components of Confucuanism and outight rejections of the idealism components of Confucianism turned them into souless idiot zombies.
The rejection of the idealism was based on a declaration that it was contaminated by the external influences of Budhism and Taoism. It was actually good old fashioned nationalism (facsism) that undermined their county for a millenium.
"many Chinese are ambivalent about Mao" (muted duct tapped and tethered/forbidden to leave their region to starve)
Brzezinski “Truly high-minded people [the elites] are not bound by traditional values of right or wrong.”
FOOD 4 ARMS
The rich stay rich by stealing from the poor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm9dElwadhk
A Warrior's Call
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2073
Weak link in the chain is always the servants.
Let's not forget Mao was installed by the C.I.A. Hitler by the City of London and Wall Street.
And, the Mass Murder Award goes to the puppet U.S. government. 100 million dead and still counting due to the SV-40 (Simian cancer virus) spiked polio vaccines given to us for over 30 years. And people are still dying at a rate of 1 1/2 million a year from it.
When questioned whether it was really done by accident the number two man at the Salk Institute wryly smiled and said - "Well, there are too many people."
It's all a joke to them.
Green arrow. Thanks for that.
Don't let the pro-vaxxers read that. They're completely safe!
You need a hardened man for the hard job
The british tried to win China
by opium intoxication
They failed
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China is back on its feet
Its learning fast
It has all that is needed including nukes
China is a super power because of this man
Mao was not stupid. He let the nationalists do the bulk of the fighting against the Japanese invaders. When they were exhausted he took over power. Then he killed a bunch (millions) of his fellow countrymen.
He was also caught using Mao's name while imitating the song from the end of Ferris Bueller:
"Mao, Mao. Chick, chicka, chick...ahhh. Mao, Mao..."
Be carefull with rice wine and video cameras.
A very old man from Beijing told me the most significant day in recent Chinese history was the day Mao's son was killed in the Korean war. "If he was still alive we would be just like North Korea. A son who carries on the cult following of his father. We would still be poor and starving."
Who's said 'I hate Amierica' and being hated at? I thought that's like some two months ago.
Free speech has a boundary, it's true in every country.
Seems to me Moa's biggest sin was making China strong in the face of foreign powers ;-)
should have said a dead old sob.
Insulting a dead mass murderer - 20 year prison sentance
Insulting Muhammad - 1000 lashes and execution
Insulting the first black President - Forever labeled a racist
Insulting George W. Bush with a book about killing him - Praise from hundreds of thousands of liberals, marxists, and progressives
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to toss the dice)
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