Friday, April 18, 2008 "RUSH: "CNN said Wednesday that commentator Jack Cafferty was referring to China's leaders -- not the Chinese people -- when he described them as a 'bunch of goons and thugs,' and apologized to anyone who thought otherwise. On Tuesday, China demanded an apology for Jack Cafferty's comments broadcast on CNN, in which he also described Chinese products as 'junk.' Beijing had already singled out US-based CNN as among Western news outlets that produced allegedly biased coverage of violent anti-government protests in Tibet and across western China last month. 'CNN would like to clarify that it was not Mr. Cafferty's, nor CNN's, intent to cause offense to the Chinese people, and would apologize to anyone who has interpreted the comments in this way,' the network said in an e-mailed statement. 'CNN is a network that reports the news in an objective and balanced fashion.'" (laughing) The ChiComs aren't going to buy that, but they'll at least take the apology. Now, it was only, I guess, the day before yesterday that Jack Cafferty on CNN compared all of you people who live in the small towns that Obama was talking about to Al-Qaeda terrorists. Will CNN and Jack Cafferty apologize to Americans who live in small towns for being compared to Al-Qaeda? (interruption) Oh, you didn't hear this? Oh, folks. I wish I had the bite. I shoulda thought to ask Cookie to get it, but I'm sure she can drum it up real quick. But he and Jeff Toobin were talking about Obama's comments in San Francisco about people in small towns being bitter and clinging to God and their guns because the government's forgotten about them, and they're miserable out there. And Toobin said he's exactly right. Cafferty then chimed in, (paraphrasing) "Yeah, not only is he exactly right, it's been going on for 30 years, these people in the Rust Belt and small towns have been ignored, and what happens --" (interruption) You have it? Good, I don't have to paraphrase. Now, what Cafferty said here, it's far more insulting and far more inaccurate than what he said about the ChiComs. They are thugs. They're communists! They are thugs, and some of their stuff is junk. You ever heard of lead toys? But CNN rolling over for the ChiComs because the ChiComs, nobody plays around with the ChiComs. If the ChiComs come after you, "Okay, okay, okay." You know, the ChiComs are not a paper tiger. We are. We're so concerned what the world thinks. The ChiComs couldn't care less what anybody thinks of them. All they care about is the world fearing them, and they've pulled that off, same thing with the old Soviet Union. "

........honestly, his concerns are on some level valid, but his outlet was politically incorrect. Who can deny that the outbreak of H5N1 was a fault at china's backward hygiene practices? as well as the man-made eggs and many other man-made"natural products" that are made in China. There is simply a weird balance in our society where to some level people despise the very same things our society depend on to succeed and improve, i.e. efficiency and meeting mass majority needs. we need to be aware of, however, the interactions and the choice of expression among cultural differences. After all, we all share the same planet. 12:12 PM