CNN isn’t my favorite news station (it’s about up there with FOX News) and hasn’t demonstrated the ability to be fair or skillful at reporting. Wolf Blitzer sucks.

Recently, CNN political pundit Jack Cafferty (The Cafferty File) made some careless comments regarding the Chinese government that are somewhat true but unnecessarily abrasive:

We continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export …. jobs to places where you can pay workers a dollar a month to turn out the stuff that we’re buying from Wal-Mart. So I think our relationship with China has certainly changed. I think they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years.

On the other side, I have never known a more self-righteous and proud people than the Chinese. It’s scary how blind some can be when they come to defending their country. The comments by Jack Cafferty were met by outrage and protests in Atlanta, Georgia at the CNN Headquarters with clever signs such as: “CNN – Clearly Not Neutral”. There is even a lawsuit against CNN for $1.3 billion dollars, with $1 for every Chinese person offended by the comments. I can’t help but think that they might be missing a few people there.

I think it’s ironic that Chinese people here are exercising a right to defend China, a country that they might be shot for protesting in, if they were to protest against the wrong organizations. But I am glad to see them embracing American values so quickly.

Unfortunately, the protest happened on a Saturday, and the Chinese protesters were foiled by the fact that we take weekends off, and nobody was in the CNN building to witness their rage, except for a couple janitors.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 at 23:39 by Sean Jin and is filed under National. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.