125. 奥巴马总统访问亚洲

奥巴马总统这个星期在亚洲访问，美国的媒体似乎对总统出访做什么不感兴趣，倒是他对日本天皇的一鞠躬由《洛杉矶时报》的一篇文章传播得举国风雨。

就个人而言，奥巴马总统对日本人的那一鞠躬让我很倒胃口。不过生为中国人，我得承认我对日本人是有成见的，尤其是日本的国家机器，我的成见基本上从小学到现在都保持在“仇恨”这个层次。我这个人很固执，但不觉得自己一成不变，只是变要有变的条件而已。放开个人的成见，我不太明白为什么奥巴马总统觉得有必要对日本天皇行礼，也许，他是那么个礼仪周到的人吧。不过，我也觉得媒体似乎小题大作。他们并不是没有新闻可以报道，但是这帮人都作同样的选择，可见美国“大众传媒”消费者的口味。有时候觉得看 CNN 的新闻节目还不如看 Jon Stewart 的《每日秀》和 Stephen Colbert 的《Colbert 报道》。

相比之下，倒是共和党前女副总统候选人莎拉·露易丝·希思·佩林出书（居然！）的消息在 CNN 的节目上占据的时间更多些。

个人希望莎拉·佩林在 2012 年真的竞选总统，而且希望她赢得共和党总统候选人，那样，共和党可以在江湖上混的时间更长一些，或者把共和党分裂成两、三个政党就更让人满意了。当然这多数是不会实现的梦想。

Wow!

Wolf Blitzer of CNN just said on TV that John McCain's campaign complained about the questions that Campbell Brown asked the McCain representative the other day.

That is hilarious. No. That is SAD!

"China demands apology from Cafferty"

Reading «China demands apology from Cafferty» is like reading a bad joke which is supposed to be funny but really not.

Mr. Jack looks depressed on TV lately for some unknown reason. He is on CNN to be a foul mouth, probably, to offend anyone he happens to want to for the day, sometimes for no apparent reason as I have seen him being rude on camera to his female colleagues. Otherwise, it defies logic that CNN would let him on the air.

The piece on CNN linked above shows the level of arrogance an American establishment could possibly reach. I don't know "where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we're buying from Wal-Mart." Certainly not anywhere in China that I know of.

CNN states:

He issued a clarification of his remarks on Monday's "Situation Room," saying that by "goons and thugs," he meant the Chinese government, not the Chinese people. It was unclear whether China's Foreign Ministry was aware of the clarification when it held the Tuesday news conference.

Nice try on CNN's part to play the victim here. But such word manipulation sounds to me like calling the thousands and thousands Iraqi civilians killed collateral damage. They are dead. Does it really matter what you call them?

I don't watch much TV. But I have kept CNN on my Dish Network subscription. Maybe it is time to cancel that subscription.