Why Does Jackie Chan Hate Bill Clinton So?
Don’t sugarcoat it Jackie, tell us how you really feel:
‘If you talk about corruption, the entire world, the United States has no corruption?’ Chan asked the host. Chan then referred to America as ‘the most corrupt in the world.’
‘Where does this Great Breakdown (financial crisis) come from? It started exactly from the world, the United States,’ Chan told the interviewer. ‘When I was interviewed in the U.S., people asked me, I said the same thing.
Wow, I don’t recall seeing Jackie on the National Review Cruise, but clearly, this is someone who is not a fan of Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter’s Community Reinvestment Act. (Whether he knows it or not):
Just kidding — Jackie is of course thrilled with having the government manipulating the housing market; he wants to see government controlling everything:
Oh, no, he didn’t? Oh, yes, he did. In a Chinese television interview last month, Hong Kong-born box-office star Jackie Chan called America the “most corrupt” in the world. Washington Post columnist Max Fisher picked up on the remarks and lambasted Chan’s fervent anti-Americanism last week (emphasis added):
He is passionately political, a staunch defender of the Chinese Communist Party and harsh critic of anyone he sees as opposing Beijing. Today, that includes the United States.
Chan, responding to widespread criticism of China’s recent censorship of a popular newspaper, insisted in a Chinese TV interview that the United States is “the most corrupt country in the world.” He scolded Chinese who criticize their country in a way that foreigners can hear or see, adding that he’s careful to only praise China when giving interviews in the U.S.
Here are his comments, translated into English by Ministry of Tofu, which also has the video. It’s worth watching to see how animated he becomes when criticizing the U.S. and defending China.
Fisher’s column was spotlighted by the South China Morning Post, which was linked on Drudge Saturday.
And note this:
Fun fact: This avowed communist propagandist is the 9th wealthiest star on the Forbes China Celebrity list. Chan’s latest and last movie, Chinese Zodiac, raked in nearly $35 million in China last week, debuts in other parts of Asia later this month, and opens in the U.S. later this summer.
I wonder if he ever runs into Thomas Friedman or Jane Fonda at cocktail parties?
I’ve always wondered what Paul (“Love Me Some Red China”)Krugman would sound like if he were an zillionaire action hero instead of a zillionaire Beta Male Columnist. The things I learn at Ed Driscoll.com!
Seriously, though: Jackie Chan doesn’t sound any different than any other Hollywood blowhard (foreign or domestic) running down America, and at least Jackie has the excuse of having the Commissar’s ever-watchful goons encourage such a viewpoint. BATMAN BEGINS to the contary, it’s hard to judo chop your way out of a Chinese gulag.
Jackie Chan has become a spokesperson for ChinaCorp. It is sad but nothing to be surprised about. I know we’re bright, funny and pretty, but we can’t expect every celebrity in the global media markets to boost Team USA now, can we?
Folks, we have a real-world competitor – maybe for the first time since the end of WWII – in modern China. We can’t blink and make this fact go away. In every theater where our alliances expect to have their way, Don’t look now!, but there’s Beijing!
Like any growing concern with upstart credentials, China, Inc. has a Public Relations Department, and its department head’s job is to attract as many recognizable advocates to shill for it as it can from inside Western media.
An NYT’s Friedman or UCBerk.’s Dunn, or a Hollywood’s Chan, it makes no matter. They may all command different perquisites for their performances, but, Ho Hum!, any one of them’d do just as well as a wooden dummy in a pinch.
You can’t blame him. The only Americans he knows are democrats.
Maybe he’s just pissed off that that David Gregory guy apparently gets off scot-free when little people will go to jail?