Uighurs Tell FNC: Better Human Rights at Guantanamo Than in China
June 16th, 2009 2:14 AM
FNC's Catherine Herridge traveled to Bermuda to meet the four Chinese Muslim Uighurs just released from Guantanamo Bay and she elicited from them that living in China is worse than life at Guantanamo. Talking to them through an interpreter at their new home, a pink bungalow with a swimming pool, Herridge reported how she “asked which was worse: Life at Gitmo versus China?” The interpreter relayed…
WSJ Report On Female Chinese Marriage Scam Fails To Describe ‘One-Ch
June 7th, 2009 9:06 PM
Wall Street Journal reporter Mei Fong wrote a report Fridayabout how some families in China, perhaps with the help of criminals, are marrying off their daughters with no intent of having them honor their vows in order to keep the "bride price," an amount a groom's family typically pays the bride's family.This development is just one of many perverse side-effects of resulting from the Chinese…
BBC Host and HuffPo Blogger Warns of U.S. Military Action if China Pus
March 27th, 2009 4:27 PM
It's has been in the news a lot lately, and the prospects of a global currency have Max Keiser, Huffington Post blogger and host of BBC World's "The Oracle," giving dire warnings of the consequences if China or other countries were to make a push for it. Keiser appeared on Al-Jazeera English's March 27 "Inside Story" to discuss the possibilities of a global currency. Host Darren Jordon asked…
On That Story of Chinese Mistress Driving Lover and 4 Rivals off a Cli
February 24th, 2009 9:27 AM
Remember that juicy story last week of the Chinese mistress that convinced her rivals and her lover to go for a drive? The mistress that then drove them all off a cliff in revenge for being dumped for one of the rivals by the lover?
Great story. It had pathos, humor, revenge and... apparently it never happened. The U.S. media picked this story up from the Chinese speaking media and ran with it…
In ChiCom Tank: 'Fox News Watch' Rips NBC's Olympics Coverage
December 27th, 2008 8:41 PM
Chinese divers won a record seven gold medals during the 2008 Olympics. But even they didn't leap as headlong into the Beijing tank as did NBC. That's how you might describe the collective verdict of the Fox News Watch panel this evening on NBC's regime-friendly coverage. The subject arose as part of the show's Year in Review, and began with a clip of Matt Lauer unctuously questioning a ChiCom…
FNC Features Kissinger Responding to Obama's Debate Claims on Iran
September 28th, 2008 1:53 AM
During a phone interview with FNC anchor Megyn Kelly, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who already voiced disapproval of Barack Obama's attempt to suggest that Kissinger would agree with his intention to meet personally with Iranian President Ahmadinejad, on Saturday elaborated on his disagreement with Obama, and clarified his views on how America should negotiate with Iran. The segment…
NBC Beijing Olympic Air Conditioned Outdoor Set: Not So Green
August 18th, 2008 9:10 AM
Do as we say, not as we do - the new theme for NBC's coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics? Quite possibly. WTHR, the NBC affiliate for Indianapolis, reported from Beijing and described the set used for the network's two highest-rated news broadcasts - "Nightly News" and "Today" - as air conditioned, even though it is outdoors. "The set is outside, but air conditioning vents make the weather…
WaPo Notes Religious Restrictions at Beijing Games, Uses Bland Headlin
August 14th, 2008 3:14 PM
While the Washington Post's Beijing-based Ariana Eunjung Cha should be commended for her reporting on Beijing's restrictions on the exercise of religion by Olympic team chaplains, the paper's headline editors clearly dropped the ball in titling her August 14 headline: "Some Olympians Dissatisfied With Religious Center."The casual reader might say, "so what," and breeze past the article. After all…
CBS: China Gaining Prosperity ‘The Communist Way
August 11th, 2008 2:55 PM
On Monday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen introduced a segment on China hosting the Olympics: "Well, the Olympic games are more than a chance for the world's athletes to excel, they also give the host nation an opportunity to shine. For China and it's 1.3 billion people, the Beijing games are feeding a groundswell of pride." Chen then went to correspondent Barry Petersen who declared: "From…
'Nightly News' Praises Gas-Guzzling GM Autos for Chinese Success
August 7th, 2008 9:52 AM
Maybe it is because NBC has the broadcast rights for the Summer Olympics being held in China, but big gas-guzzling, greenhouse gas-emitting automobiles made by General Motors are seen as a plus for the communist nation's embrace of capitalism. The August 6 "NBC Nightly News" featured the Chinese people's love of troubled U.S. automaker General Motors (NYSE:GM) - an indicator interpreted as an…
Mika Warns: 'We'll Get a Call' for Mocking Olympics
August 6th, 2008 7:42 AM
Could the NBC honchos be a tad touchy about criticism of the Beijing Olympics—especially when it comes from its own talent pool? Was there a kernel of truth in Mika Brzezinski's light-hearted warning that MSNBC's Morning Joe crew would "get a call" if it persisted in its mocking of the games for whose broadcast rights the Peacock Network has over the years paid billions?When the subject of the…
