Fakery in Games makes plain China’s contempt for reality
Fakery in Games makes plain China’s contempt for reality
May the truth come out about China and whether or not they have a hidden agenda
Time to clear the air: That’s not smog hovering over Beijing, swallowing entire
office buildings like a mighty python. It’s just “a funny mist,” says the city’s
environmental chief, who insists that the Chinese government has eliminated air
pollution in the capital. And he’s right: By moving its monitoring stations as
far as 40 miles from the city center, Beijing’s air-quality reports read like
Irving Berlin lyrics: Blue skies, smilin’ at me. Nothin’ but blue skies do I see
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If Berlin ought to be the official balladeer of the Beijing Olympics, the
official currency should be the $3 bill. That’s as in the phrase “phony as …”
From Spielbergian digitized fireworks to Milli Vanilli-esque lip syncing to
let’s-pretend newscasts, these Olympics have been the biggest public exercise in
media-inspired fakery since Orson Welles’ Martians terrorized New
Jersey.
That cute-as-a-button little girl who sang during the Opening
Ceremony? Actually, the voice belonged to another kid, whose big nose and
crooked teeth were deemed unsuitable for the TV cameras. Those crowds of noisy
fans in yellow T-shirts, banging inflatable batons? Government shills, “cheer
squads” recruited to fill all the empty seats left by no-show tourists.
Wow! They stooped that low?
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A reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, watching with a crowd in Tiananmen
Square when the real fireworks went off, wrote that they saw only “two tiny
flare-like blasts pop in the sky, followed by a lot of nothing.”
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Literally nothing at the Olympics is too important or too trivial for the
Chinese to counterfeit. On the high end is free speech. China’s totalitarian
government swore it would permit protests and demonstrations during the Games,
albeit only at three designated parks distant from Olympic venues. But
apparently there’s been a sudden burst of public contentment just in time for
the Olympics; the parks are deserted, and Chinese authorities can’t remember if
they’ve issued any permits for demonstrations.
So they can’t even remember if they issued permits for demonstrations? Is that why during the Olympics they have a police staff of 150,000? Who would have been demonstrating and about what? Would those be people who want the whole world to know what China is really about? May the Lord Jesus Christ bless those demonstrators. For it is written: that “everything done in darkness will be made manifest in light.”
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But much of the rest of the Olympic fakery reflects less venality than a willful
contempt for reality, a belief that the world can be remade with airbrushes and
Photoshop. The Chinese, from the beginning, saw the Olympics as an exercise in
image control, to the point that they originally hired Steven Spielberg to help
oversee the production.
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