Simmons can't possibly be that stupid, can he? He saw exactly what they wanted him to see, and nothing more.
Posted on 02/08/2018 10:06:21 AM PST by rktman
In a stunningly tone deaf report for NBC’s Today show on Wednesday, reporter Keir Simmons touted “a week inside North Korea” and gaining “rare access to the people there,” which included riding bumper cars at an amusement park in Pyongyang and sampling beer at a local bar. Less than a minute of the five-minute long segment focused on North Korea’s atrocious human rights abuses.
As he arrived in the authoritarian regime, Simmons observed: “First impressions: Clean, organized, and a lot of people in uniform.” Visiting a military museum in the capital, he declared: “A tour of weapons captured from American forces in the Korean War counts as a school outing here.” He asked two of the children visiting: “What are you learning here?” A girl replied: “We are learning about the great fighting spirit of our war heros.” A boy answered: “America gave unfathomable pain to our people.”
From that blatant display of government propaganda, it was time to travel to another: “Here, an amusement park in the capital, bumper cars.” Not only did Simmons take note of the ride, he decided to hop in one. Afterwards, he told viewers that his fellow bumper car drivers were “ruthless.” That word was only used once in the report, and not in reference to the communist regime.
As he enjoyed the amusement park attractions, the correspondent touted people taking pictures: “And cell phone cameras, though not connected to the worldwide web, they are small signs of a growing economy.”
Despite laughably taking up North Korea’s “growing economy,” Simmons did manage to offer a single sentence about the reality: “Sanctions are tightening, the average income still around a thousand to two thousand dollars a year.” Though even then he seemed to blame the sanctions instead of the dictatorship for the extreme poverty.
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“Clean”—sounds like the famous Biden quote about Obama. :-)
Why didn’t he tour the Pueblo?
I wonder if he’ll visit some of the Potemkin stores that are fully stocked, but they won’t let you buy anything.
Uh, cause they’re in New Mexico? I know, the USS Pueblo. I remember it well.
Well then they can have him..and the rest of MSNBC too, it would be win/win for us
Maybe he should just try to kipe a political poster. No problem with that.
As someone noted: he also visited a ski resort - where it seemed there were only 4 kinds of attire (identical outfits, as though assigned), and for all the people milling about _nobody_ was actually skiing down the slopes.
Their control over the media is what the Left dreams of for here.
What was that movie where James Franco went to N. Korea and was fed crap about how beautiful it was and what a nice guy fat little Kim was ... until he finally got a peek at the truth?
Everyone is happy in NK, no one hears anyone complain.
Simmons can't possibly be that stupid, can he? He saw exactly what they wanted him to see, and nothing more.
Can’t blame them in this case.
At least they didn’t put their liberal opinions in the it.
Kinda like the long shot from the hill top in Blazing Saddles.
So I’m going to a really great theme park in NK. As I get closer to the park, there are no lines for parking. (Queues for those in London). Matter of fact, there are a gazillion empty parking spaces.
No problem. So you get out of the Zil and you are greeted by some skinny females in uniform. You get into the park, and there might be 200 people, all dressed the same way.
Problem now is they all look hungry.
I would be thinking, how do I egress this AO, and how many people will die?
5.56mm
A whole potemkin kabuki theater. The whole bumper car was shut down after he left.
I visited Saddam’s amusement park and replica of the Flintstone world too, after we bombed it, it was exclusively for his grandchildren andnpropaganda, next!!
(Do we have to go through this media Bagdad Bob bull sht again)
Not enough pain doled out apparently.
That’s the one - I ended up enjoying it.
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