Thank you Roland! As an Asia-focused blog this site has been one of the few sites in the ’sphere’ not to have had fun with the Dick Cheney hunting accident. However, AsiaPundit now asks, how many lawyers has Wen Jiabao shot?
Q1. If Chinese premier Wen Jiabao shot someone, we would never hear about it. It never happened. If someone committed the indiscretion of disclosing the fact, there would be complete denial and then the entire state apparatus would be turned on the leaker of state secrets. Nothing will show up in the Chinese press. All Internet forums and blogs will be censored, so there will be no GPS coordinate analyses. Everything that appears in the foreign media will be denounced as propaganda by hostile forces.
Q2. The Chinese government officials have no sense of humor. There would be no jokes in the manner of Scott McClellan. But the Chinese people have a great sense of humor, because they don’t have much else left. Humor in such cases is bad, because the whole thing turned ugly and obscene the moment that the news came about the heart attack episode. Every comedian should feel some sense of remorse.
AsiaPundit is not aware of China’s premier shooting any lawyers, although quite a few property and human-rights lawyers have been jailed. Still, AsiaPundit does not anticipate any humorous Aerosmith songs to be ever written about Wen Jiabao. (link Cheney’s got a Gun)
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