September 6, 2004

• China Threatens Internet Porn Merchants with Life

  
  

  SHOCKING: CNN admitted today that China’s government is Communist

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

  In one of those rare moments of nascent candor in which CNN (you know, that network no one watched during this year's U.S. political conventions) apparently found itself in conflict betwixt its sentimentality for the ever-brutal Red Chinese regime and the network's fondness for full access by all ages to pornography, the "Clinton News Network" shows to us another reason why it earned the nick-name when it came down on the side of pornographers in a recent Reuters article it published today (no doubt to protect night jobs for some among them now that they've fallen on hard times).

  
  

   

  
  

  Another first: This is the only time you will likely hear or see CNN or Reuters call China’s government “puritanical”, a word usually reserved only for the staunchest anti-Communist, right-wing zealot, so heinous is the epithet.

  
  

   

  
  

  Many things get under-reported by CNN, still more get under-reported by Reuters (who calls terrorists "freedom fighters"). With both this is particularly the case when it comes to human rights in China, a place near and dear to the hearts of Ted Turner and Jane Fonda. In Communist China churches burn or get bulldozed, people disappear in the middle of the night, get tortured, have their organs harvested while still alive, and their children forced to work 15 hour days in sweat shops with one bathroom break. But all of this is just part of the hardship of building a greater workers’ state to CNN. Besides, those bright-red parades are so spectacular!

  
  

   

  
  

  But with this crackdown on internet pornography, Beijing has crossed the line and raised the ire of Wolf Blitzer and others who have faded into obscurity since the advent of Fox News.

  
  

   

  
  

  But at least CNN is consistent. Their reporting has also led me to believe that they support any law that regulates political speech during a campaign, but oppose any law that might crack down on nipple rings during super bowls. Isn't it, after all, the spirit of the First Amendment which the Founders framed specifically so that the industry could show your three year old explicit sex acts? In fact, Thomas Jefferson often lamented no one had yet introduced the television set- or for that matter the broadcast network – because he and the Founders knew society could only profit from kinky nudity in prime time. But political speech only corrupts the process, which is why the First Amendment mentions “petitioning the government for a redress of grievances" last – so we can see from the text clearly the above-matter is beyond question.

  
  

   

  
  

  At home or abroad CNN has it’s story straight. They know the pecking order and they never deviate. So it is that in CNN’s version of  the classic child’s pastime “rock, paper, scissors”  China is the scissors and lude material the rock. Innocent families in China and the US are of course the toilet paper.

  
  

   

  
  

  Still one can always hope- we did see in this article many "firsts"- and by this we can foresee a moment in time when maybe CNN and Reuters will show us another "first" by reporting on the real human rights abuses occuring all over China, Syria, Iran, North Korea and at the hands of groups like Hamas. But heaven help the palestinians if word gets out they tried to crack-down on websites depicting the open display of women's eyeballs or bare hands.  

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  Rewind:

  
  

  How Bad Are Human Rights in CCP-Controlled Red China?

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

   

  
  

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