Jan 30th 2011 at 6:59 am in China, Communism, Foreign Policy, Media Criticism, Politics, Terrorism, sharia Two incidents occurred on January 19th, with one involving talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the other a song performed later by a Chinese pianist named Lang Lang at the White House State Dinner for Chinese president Hu Jintao.
During Limbaugh’s radio broadcast that day, he decided not to “JIP” (Join In Progress) President Hu’s speech because there was no translator. In a moment of humor, Rush decided to give his audience a version of the Chinese language never before heard – one that didn’t exist until it came out of his mouth; he imitated Hu Jintao and it was hilarious.
However, a state Senator from California took great offense to Limbaugh’s mockery; it was an affront to Chinese everywhere and according to Sen. Leland Yee, it was racist and derogatory. He even claimed to have received death threats as a result.
We have long known that the left has shown a propensity for staging attacks against its own in order to blame the right. There were countless incidents chronicled during the rise of the Tea Party to prove it. In fact, not far from where Yee’s district is, the Marxist Jim Jones was a master of such tactics, staging fake attacks in order to breed paranoia among his members.
Later on January 19th, just a few hours after Limbaugh’s on-air performance, Lang Lang sat down at a piano inside the White House and performed a pro-Chinese, anti-American song called “My Motherland.” In it, the United States is referred to as a “jackal.” The song is seen by many as a tool of Communist Chinese propaganda.
In the case of Yee, his outrage is not only misplaced but as an official of the government of the United States and the state of California, is pitted squarely against the first amendment to the Constitution he took an oath to uphold. Worse than that, by targeting Limbaugh while remaining silent on the egregious act of performing a pro-communist song in the White House, he only amplifies the disparity between his two positions.
A state Senator of California would like to see the silencing of a talk radio host who believes in the Constitutional principles on which this country was founded while at the same time has no problem with communist propaganda being on display at the White House, which also had no problem with the song, dismissing Lang Lang’s claim in a blog post that he performed it because he wanted to portray China as “formidable.” That’s hardly appropriate when you’re a guest in someone else’s home.
Not only was Limbaugh unwittingly ahead of the curve again by hitting Hu Jintao with a preemptive strike on the day America would later be slapped in the face by a Chinese pianist but he may have also exposed the true loyalty of a state Senator from California by doing so.
Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in Texas and maintains a website at www.benbarrack.com
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