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Hey, Los Angeles! What’s going on?

Oh, you know. Nothing much. It’s another cold Saturday morning, with an early onset of the “June Gloom” and yup. That’s about it.

Oh, wait. Nevermind. My bad. THERE’S A HUGE PROTEST* GOING ON IN FRONT OF THE CNN BUILDING IN HOLLYWOOD. All those poor hipsters trying to get into Amoeba Music across the street must be so confused.

(*just the sidewalks along the Sunset/Cahuenga intersection)

How did I not know about this? What happened at CNN? I am actually pretty ashamed of myself, for not being aware about this.

Did anyone else know that CNN’s Jack Cafferty called the Chinese a “bunch of goons and thugs” on television?

“We continue to import their junk with the lead paint on them and the poisoned pet food and export, you know, 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,” he continued. “I think they’re basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they’ve been for the last 50 years. (link)

Very interesting, Jack. No comment on the “goons or thugs” statement, except smooth move, ex-lax. You don’t really go on national (cable) television and dismiss an entire HUMONGOUS population/ethnic group with slurs. You’re right, the relationship between the US and China has clearly changed–but you seem to find some insecurities with it.

This kind of coverage has been going on for some time, too.

CNN, whose staff have received threats, appears to have become a proxy for what many Chinese see as Western media bias that villainizes China just as the country prepares to make a global splash through its hosting of the summer Olympic Games in Beijing. (link)

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