White House Says Pro-Commie Anti-American Song Played at Obama White House State Dinner Was Not an Insult
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 5:04 AM
When Commie Anti-American Songs Are Not Commie Anti-American Songs…
The White House claims that the anti-American song played at the Obama White House State Dinner was not an insult.
That’s bold… Maybe they liked it?
Obama has been in office for only 2 years and already they’re playing Red Chinese commie songs at State Dinners in the White House.
The US was humiliated in eyes of Chinese by a song used to inspire anti-Americanism at the Obama State Dinner for Hu Jintao.
Internet users in China praised the pianist after this great act of courage.
On Monday, the Obama White House and state-run media insisted it was not an insult.
ABC News reported, via The Examiner:
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor told ABC News that “any suggestion that this was an insult to the United States is just flat wrong. As Lang Lang has stated before, he plays this song regularly because it is one of his favorite Chinese melodies, which is very widely known and popular in China for its melody. Lang Lang played the song without lyrics or reference to any political themes during the entertainment portion of the State Dinner. He simply stated the song’s title and noted it was well known in China.”
Lang has issued a statement saying that he “selected this song because it has been a favorite of mine since I was a child. It was selected for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody.” His goal is to “bridge cultures together through the beauty and inspiration of music.”
Asked what he thought of the controversy, Kenneth Lieberthal — director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and a former special assistant to President Clinton for national security affairs and senior director for Asia on the National Security Council – said “I have enough confidence to be easily able to accept Lang lang’s assertion that this is simply a favorite melody of his, that is obviously a Chinese melody, and that he used it without any thought that it might have a political resonance for some that simply never occurred to him.”
Lieberthal added that “It did occur to me that had the situation been reversed I can easily imagine many Chinese bloggers weighing in along the same way some of our more conservative media have weighed in, but frankly it’s ridiculous. If a musician had no such intent I don’t feel compelled to assign intent to him. The US is confident enough, secure enough and open enough to easily accept his assurance that he didn’t mean anything by it.”
But Nick Eberstadt, a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, tells ABC News that the song is “classic Mao-era anti-American invective and it’s astonishing that none of the China experts on the American side called it out before it was put into the program for the banquet.”
Who knows… In another couple of years with Obama regime in charge we might all be forced to sing this at public events?
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Published May 21, 2012 at 12:19 am - 79 Comments
sliderblaze commented:
who’s running this sideshow anyway? not an insult to play an anit-american song… in america… perfect
RedBeard commented:
This thin and contrived defense of the limp-spined pushovers who run our White House was predictable. Every time our man-child president leans into a punch and gets punked and humiliated, the same thing happens. His defenders rush out from the woodwork to declare that what just happened did not actually happen.
Sorry, lefties. You can’t rewrite these stories to fit your agenda.
MrGoodWench commented:
As Lang Lang has stated before, he plays this song regularly because it is one of his favorite Chinese melodies, which is very widely known and popular in China for its melody
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Hey stupid Obama’s anus,
its not about Langlang and his effing feelings and what the song means to him,,
its about what he did to us in our own country and what it means to us .
tarpon commented:
OK, so it’s Obama-commie who is the insult.
Khan Krum commented:
Just keep in mind that this was the Red House that decorated its Post-Christmas tree with Chairman Mao ornaments. That makes everything crystal clear.
Big L commented:
this paragraph saying it is not an unsult is the same filibuster m.o. that I run into when I try to have adiscussion with my teacher frends. Ithink they are taught this. It is part juvenile,infantile ressponse to adults correcting bad behavior. and part is the lefties teaching tricks to shut u kids.
Virtually all experts know that as Chinese speakers this is an “insult song”. Ut us set up ahead of time by a bunch of smart alecks to stick it to theUSA.
Don’t hire this red commie piano player!
Male Silverback commented:
Lang can take his red ass back to China. He can take Berry back with him.
Muffin commented:
Well, when you don’t know, what you don’t know, as in the case of Obama quite regularly…..I would finish the sentence, “You are an ignoramus that needs to be impeached.” Hasn’t Obama insisted what is, isn’t and he just didn’t know, too many times? I find the man incredible. As in, his administration has no CREDIBILITY.
The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:
If it’s not an insult, then what was it? And what was with all the Chinese cheering that Lang Lang played it?
TRE commented:
I bet that if I had played BATTLE OF THE HYMN REPUBLIC on the piano without even singing it, the Red House would have read something into it. Their “spin” predicates a nit-wit public.
NickDeringer commented:
It was not an insult because the Commies hate America almost as much as O’Barry does.
“You will know them by their fruits.”
Will Profit commented:
Of course this is not an insult to Obumbles! This is the administration that likes Mao ornaments on the CHRISTmas tree.
Beef commented:
So when we go to China, we’re gonna play “Ballad of the Green Beret ” right?
Highlander commented:
There is reason to suspect that, to this particular White House, it was not an insult – quite simply because there may be sizeable and influential elements within this administration who are in complete agreement with the sentiments expressed in that song. And I don’t think it’s at all an exaggeration to say so. We have seen several notable examples supporting that conclusion. Van Jones and Anita Dunn may have represented just the tip of the iceberg. How many more are there with similar ideas, who have just been a little more circumspect in expressing them?
HeavyD commented:
I’m sorry, but are there no American pianists qualified to play at a White House State Dinner?? I’m sure if Hu wanted to listen to Lang Lang, he could just have him dragged in off the street and force him to play to his hearts content. Although, any pianist this administration would dig up is probably also well versed in anti-American tunes.
Just_Saying commented:
“Lang has issued a statement saying…”
And they believe him? ["Verify."]
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mg4us commented:
The “O” in incOmpetent is for Obama. . .
Doesn’t know or understand what the Office of the President of the United tates represents. . .once an “O”rganizer always and organizer!
So spread the word. .incompetent, incompetent, incompetent Obama!
AnnaS commented:
And yet— Obama is now the comeback kid with rebounding poll numbers! How can so many be so blind?
Andreas K. commented:
I’m actually inclined to believe Lang Lang. He’s a musician and a very gifted one. Such people usually don’t give a rat’s ass about politics. They just want to play music. He knows that this particular song is well liked in China and maybe he figured “why not play this very popular song?” without any second thoughts. That’s a possibility.
What I find interesting is that all the “specialists” in the state department didn’t recognize the song. They would be informed about the song, any song, in advance, since stuff like this is usually on a tight schedule. You need to know how long the song is, in order to keep the schedule going.
I’m sure they saw it and just didn’t care. Like it was with the Russians (remember the button.) Like it was with the Japanese (remember Obama’s shoe shining bow, which the same “specialists” claimed to be alright.)
Beef, they should play the Marine cadence from Full Metal Jacket. Just change the lyrics a bit. “Mao Tse Tung is a son of a b*tch! Got the blueballs, crabs and the seven-year-itch!”
rabble-rouser commented:
“WHATEVER”
Floyd Looney commented:
A Quintessential American Evenving is how they billed it
jeesh
donh commented:
We got PUNKED ! Be honest enough to admit it, and be glad the dinner guests did not have to form a mini jumbotron image of HU’s face by holding up sychronied flash cards. Adolf Hitler’s favorite Wagner piece would have been a more appropriate selection for this gathering of corrupt fascist tyrants…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UQrOIa7coc
DomesticGoddess commented:
This is very disturbing! Our country is being mocked right in our own backyard.
Conservative to the Core commented:
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn
paul52 commented:
If that’s not insulting, then let’s all go to Al Sharpton’s house and serenade him with a few choruses of “Dixie”.
Lance commented:
@paul52
Spot on!
Lieberthal says “The US is confident enough, secure enough and open enough to easily accept his assurance that he didn’t mean anything by it.” Suggesting to reject such an insult makes you insecure. So if next time Lang plays Paul Shanklin’s rendition of Sharpton’s “Barack the Magic Negro” we won’t hear anything about it, right?
Rock commented:
Kenneth Lieberthal said “that this is simply a favorite Chinese melody, and that he used it without any thought that it might have a political resonance” Really, that’s his take. A State dinner between two long time enemies and Lang never considered this selection was inappropriate. But then the Chinese, like Libs think Americans are stupid, and thought he could pull a fast one. Yea thanks Oby another slap in the face of America, you must have gotten a chuckle over this.
jorgen commented:
No, of course a Commie such as Obama would not be insulted by a Commie anti-American song. But a real American would.
Rachelle commented:
It wasn’t an insult to our Marxist president–it was an insult to America.
Edouard commented:
OK, next time we Americans are in China, let’s bring along a Japanese-American pianist to play an imperial-Japanese Manchurian-occupation tune from the 1930s. You know, to serenade the diplomatic lunch.
I’m sure the ChiComs will have absolutely no problem with it and will gratefully broadcast it everywhere throughout China.
Lynn commented:
This is no different than the Pres. of Mexico last spring coming into the “People’s House” and telling us how the Arizonia illegal immigration law was wrong! Pres. Obama stood right there and the Dems in Congress applauded! They hate America and love anyone who takes a SWIPE at us!
Joanne commented:
It isn’t an insult to other communists. I can’t believe Americans put a Muslim/Marxist in power, but even more amazing is that they are still doing everything they want.
Radegunda commented:
Andreas, #20, I had the same thought: Lang Lang has devoted his life to playing mostly Western music, a universal language that speaks deeply to him. He regularly plays in Western venues to please Western audiences. The world of top-tier classical musicians is international, and few of them are known for making political statements in public.
It’s plausible that Lang Lang was simply thinking of the musical language of the melody itself, since that’s where his mind is. He’s not a singer. It’s also plausible to see his choice as reflecting a sentimental attachment to Chinese culture and not an endorsement of his government’s policies.
But there should have been some “China experts” involved in the planning who knew the signal it would send to the Chinese. Or, who knew and cared.
burt commented:
No one hates the United States as much as Obama.
Stuart commented:
Tommy Vietor: You can peddle your lies to the American people all you want, but 1.5 billion Chinese know otherwise.
P.S.
A hell of a lot of Americans aren’t buying your B.S. either.
Radegunda commented:
I’ll take back my comment #35: apparently Lang Lang is lying, and has been more upfront about his intent elsewhere.
Boycott the nastyl little SOB. He’s overrated anyway.
lorichil commented:
We could play the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ at a Jewish event and not have the words spoken or sung or any reference made to them. How do you think the Jewish people would react to it. Or, could we play ‘Dixie’ , not sing it or mention the words, to the NAACP. How would they react.
For a President that I was told was so intelligent, I find he must be sitting on his intelligence to keep it from blowing away.
These people, who back BO in whatever he or his administration do, have to be sick, sick, sick!
CrackerMike commented:
If Obamama didn’t know about this hate filled, anti American song, he’s the stupidist President EVER, or, more likely, he agrees with it’s message of killing American soldiers like jackals. Obama really does hate Americans and America. He has made it his personal goal of destroying our Nation: socially, financially, militarily and spiritually.
ant commented:
So, it was not meant to be an insult, it was just a “gaffe” caused by not thinking something through? Sounds like another thing Obama and the Chi-coms have in common
tommy mc donnell commented:
no pro-communist liberal would be insulted by this song.