In China? As many of you erudite readers know, Obama was in Shanghai
last week while on his Asia tour. His stop here included a "town hall
meeting" where the audience was composed of students from nine
different universities in Shanghai. It was hyped up by the Western
media b/c it was an opportunity for Chinese students to openly
question a leader of a powerful country and that it would plant the
seeds of democracy blah blah blah whatever. Except that the questions
were pre-screened (by Obama's people or the Chinese, I'm not sure) to
make sure nothing too controversial was asked. So it ended being
stupid questions like "Mr. President, which tourist sites are you
going to visit in China?" or "Do you use Twitter?" I would've asked
how he could openly accept the Nobel Peace Prize while simultaneously
consider ramping up troop numbers in Afghanistan and not keeping his
campaign promise to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and close
Guantanomo, but I digress.
Anyhow, the point of this blog post was that one of the bigger items
to get picked up by the Chinese media wasn't anything Obama said or
didn't say. Instead, some of the coverage was focused on a smoking,
hot chick taking off her winter coat behind Obama. Check it out http://shanghaiist.com/2009/11/26/obama_who_shanghais_town_hall_has_a.php
and http://www.chinahush.com/2009/11/24/mystery-woman-in-black-behind-obama-at-the-town-hall-meeting-becomes-popular-then-speaks-out/#more-3608
Only in China does the American President come to visit and the media
focuses on a hot chick sitting in the audience instead! China is
becoming more and more like America everyday....
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