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Obama Hears A Hu — The Erick Erickson Show

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  January 19th, 2011 at 08:56 PM  | 

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It’s 9:00 p.m. I encourage you to tune to WSB 750AM. If you can’t pick it up there, go to http://wsbradio.com. At the top of the show at 9:06 p.m. we’ll be going straight to Washington for coverage of “Kowtow to Chicoms 2011″ including a reading of “Obama Hears a Hu” written by our own Caleb Howe.

You won’t want to miss that.

You can also call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK.

Consider this an open thread.

Edit: text of the “poem” below the fold. – Caleb

This afternoon, Erick asked if anyone wanted to try to come up with a parody of Horton Hears A Who for his radio show tonight. Below is what I came up with. (Be kind, it was very short notice.)

Obama Hears A Hu
On the nineteenth of Jan, in the swampy press pool
In the heat of DC, stood a donkey and tool.
There was flashing from cameras and much other noise
For the donkey, exactly the noise he enjoys.

First they talked and they talked, and it was quite a scene
And informative truth was the world keen to glean.
“Let me,’ said the donkey, “be perfectly clear,”
And his grin crossed his face from his ear to his ear
He talked about partners, and cars and our debts
He spoke on our exports and even on threats.
“As we look to the future,” he began to conclude,
then for seven more minutes he cooed and he cooed.

The donkey, Obama, sort of mentioned Tibet
(but not very strongly, or China would fret.)
Then he joked about weather, and wrapped up his speech,
And he turned to the tool, for they each had a speech.
And who was the tool but a Hu, goodness me!
A Hu who rules China! Oh fiddle dee dee!

The Hu wasn’t zestful, but rather quite dull
And his speech, as for data, was practically null.
He said that Obama and he disagreed
(an obvious outcome I hope you’ll concede)
He said a few things about China, “It’s great!”
For reporters his words were a plate full of bait.

Then a time came for questions, up first: Human rights.
And the donkey, he answered, devoid of sound bytes.
The Hu, as a Hu will, ignored the whole thing
And looked for a question without as much sting.
In Beijing if you sting they may just wring your neck
But Americans, we tend to frown on Hu dreck.

They asked Hu again, about rights violations
Hu tried to escape it with verbal gyrations.
In the end much was asked, without many answers
The tool and the donkey, they’re both quite good dancers.

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  • Kudzu

    President in the 1980s? And the Soviets had shown the world that they were appeasing dissidents and opening up? Demonstrated a “rise” and allowing more economic freedom? Would Obama have stood in Iceland and welcomed the rise of of the Soviet Union?

    Just sayin

  • earlgrey

    concern trolls, and other suspicious short term posters on conservative webisites and blogs? I haven’t seen it here as much, but on other sites I keep seeing the same talking points coming up and links to questionable polling data that makes conservatives look weak.

    Just curious

  • Kudzu

    nt

  • carolina

    At politico there were those that were convinced that there were ‘hired’ posters being paid $7/hr to post their ‘talking points’.
    Someone claimed to ‘know’ this was factual. I have no idea if this happens, or not.

  • carolina

    At politico there were those that were convinced that there were ‘hired’ posters being paid $7/hr to post their ‘talking points’.
    Someone claimed to ‘know’ this was factual. I have no idea if this happens, or not.

  • edwyrd

    showing msnbc ahead of fox, and crazy trolll data like that, and rush at 10% of his true audience

  • texasgalt

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  • acat

    The Libs are starting their astroturf for 2012 early….

    The Libs are trying to degrade the signal-to-noise ratio of successful conservative web sites. (the signal-to-noise ratio at Hot Air got very bad a couple years ago… not sure if it’s recovered)

    I believe the correct violent analogy, in either case, is that we must be over the target because we’re taking significant enemy fire. (grin)

    Mew

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  • jackhammer

    Malign China as one might, the government is communist in name, but not in economic practice. Deng Xiaoping knew that wealth generation could ONLY occur through free market incentives, and that those were inherent in chinese culture and ingrained in the psyche of the people. So all growth that has happened has been mainly through the toils of individual chinese people out for personal profit. The government has made credit available,a dn kept inflation in check, and throttled currency expansion in a way to facilitate that.

    I spend a lot of time in China, and I know a lot of Chinese people who have made moderate to sizeable fortunes there (In the $3-20 million Range, not billionaires), and they have all done it in much the same way as it is done in North America or Europe. They borrowed money and started a company or took one over. They paid that money back. They identified a market opening, and bought the machinery, hired the people and put int he work to exploit that.

    I am in the Garment business,a dn they did it the EXACT same way that the people in Italy did it, the people in Turkey, india, Bangladesh, Indonesia and wherever else did it.

    They started out with sewing machines, and maybe 200 workers. They first took orders from Hong Kong Buying agencies, but realized there was more margin to be made with direct relationships with cusotmers, so they invested thier profits, and went to trade fairs, and worked to get more and more customers with more and more margin. They take orders, and have to sell for more than it costs them to make….I know ones who lose money, I know ones who make money…..The government does no cover all debts…I know ones who go bankrupt and go out of business.

    20 years ago it was different, then most were government owned companies (as is still the case in Vietnam), and they really did not care about whether they made a profit…..virtually all of those companies are out of business, becasue they got beat by the free market companies, often ones that did not have as much legacy debt for all the retired workforce.

    So for allt he human rights abuses that the government of China actually perpetrates, on the economic side, it is people, not government making most of the wealth, and that wealth is theres to keep.

    So the soviets, being full on communist, and with the backing of their raw materials dollars, did not allow for a flourishing private sector to show strong economic growth….they were then, as they are now, extremely reliant on the price of raw materials.

  • jackhammer

    I just had a close chinese business partner here…34 year old self made guy, his company does $40million a year turnover,a nd he usually pulls in about $2million profit, last year he was down to $200k due to cotton price explosions (again somethign the chinese government did not alleviate for them).

    I asked him about the incoming chinese president, and an article I read about him being supportive of the intensified focus on the teachings of Mao….he laughed and didn’t even know the name of the incoming president, had to ask his merchandiser what the name was again, and said in a ver nonchalant way….”who cares, it is all the same”…not in a negative way, but in the way that you sort of accept that you have a tax rate in the 30%’s, and you aren’t going to get overly excited about 1% up or down….

    This guy is so apolitical, and all chinese I know are…they see the government as somehtign sort of like the utility company…it is there, you can’t avoid it, you don’t notice it day to day, and you don’t really get upset about it unless electricity or water doesn’t come.

    The salaries he pays his workers has doubled in Chinese RMB terms in the past 3 years, but he isn’t bitter or begrudging….

    And for those of you who would now say I profiteer form it, so that is why I defend it….I have moved most of my production out of China over the last 3 years and into countries like Bangladesh, because my industry is so heavily dependent on low wages, and we are a “first” industry…that measn all we need is a bit of halfway regular electricity, and minimal infrastructure, and maybe a halfway functioning port nearby, and we can actualyl start business.

  • jackhammer

    I have another friend who has a picture of Chang Kai Sheck behind his desk….I thougth I recognized it and asked him…he said “that is my political party”

    I thought that must be life threatening….he said, “no the government wants me to be in it”…

    Again there he is apolitical, but as one of the largest employers in his city the opposition party (named after Chang Kai Shek because he happens to have been born in that town) asked him to be a member, mainly because they wanted someone with money to pay for food and drinks when they had their meetings….I found it quite funny.

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