It was a joke. Really.

Chicago Tribune | 6-16-02 | N/a

[Temple Owl]

It was a joke. Really.

Readers of one of Beijing's biggest tabloid newspapers recently were led to believe that the U.S. Congress was threatening to dump Washington, D.C. and move to Charlotte or Memphis unless it got a "new, state-of-the-art" Capitol building.

The Beijing Evening News quoted House Speaker Dennis Hastert dissing the Capitol Building as "no longer suitable for a world-class legislative branch." Bad bathrooms, miserable parking, you get the picture.

[Temple Owl]

I've seen some undoctored pictures of William Jefferson Clinton The Beijing Evening News could have used and come away looking goods.

[Fudd]

Talking to my office mate from China. He tells me that the Chinese do not have satire in the form of the Onion. He added that many Chinese papers translate western news reports without much thought, and he has seen several instances where satire has slipped by their radar nets (ie, "U.S. LANDS MAN ON SUN").

It's a cultural thing.

[IncPen]

It's this easy to manipulate the Chinese media, but the left in this country wants us to believe that Stalin was unable to infiltrate our media (and Hollywood ) and con the dupes in those places into championing the communist cause... ...right...