7 Responses to “China to Cheney, Bush”

1. Reader's Write Says:
   October 31st, 2005 at 7:41 am

   Hmmm. Exactly who are you lampooning here? The crooks in the House Painted White; Xenophobic North Americans who believe the racial stereotypes; Chinese who will eventually own your ass but don’t speak perfect english like what we speak?

   Far from being satire, this looks more like something that perpetuates all three.

2. Reader's Write Says:
   October 31st, 2005 at 8:20 am

   It’s just funny because it is true. A reader wrote this, and I think it is both intelligent and funny….

3. Reader's Write Says:
   October 31st, 2005 at 11:26 am

   Turbo Geek’s Lampooning Laundry List, a detailed analysis. Analysis commentary is contain within [[…..]] embedded in a copy of the posting below.

   Beijing – PVTPANet (People’s Very Truthful Press Agency): - [[1. Critical of the repressive regime in the PRC who routinely censor the press and think nothing of throwing journalists in jail for years. They want the ‘party line’ from the Government to be regarded as the truth.]] Responding to concerns of the American Leaders, and Mr Bush and Mr Cheney, [[2. Critical of the MPAA and RIAA who seem to like passing themselves off as some kind of quasi covernment agency, especially in foreign countries and becaus they are both HQed in Washington DC. 3. Criticism of Administation by separating them from ‘leaders’, implying they are not.]] who reside in the House Painted White [[4. Use of idiomatic difference in language as a humor device. See also: Rogers and Hammerstein, The King & I: “Small House of Uncle Thomas.”]], about the dishonorable activities of pirates who are stealing money from famous American Movie Stars, [[5. Critical of the cartel’s propoganda in two way. 5a. They continue to moan and groan that it’s the musicians, composers, artists, actors, and assorted technicians who are being hurts the most by p2p when in fact they are being disingenuous because what they are only concerned about are their corporate profits. 5b. The cartel’s continuing mischaracterization of p2p as ’stealing’, ‘theft’, ‘larceny’, etc, when no one is taking anyone else’s property and depriving them of it’s use. The correct term is ‘infringement’. Not all P2P activities are ‘infringement’.]] Minister of Purging of Piracy of the People’s Ministry of Approved Communications, [[ 6. #1 again, commenting on how these regimes create lofty titles with which to reward their petty little bureaucrats.]] Dung Xio Tik, [[7. Read this as “Dung So Thick”. The remainder of the analysis is left an an exercise fore the reader. has released the following statement.

   His words explain what the People’s Republic is doing concerning the shameful plague of piracy instigated because of access to unauthorized web sites created by subversive enemies of the People: [[8. #1 again. Regime blames copyright infringement problem (which they don’t care about) on something totally unrelated (that they really do care about and want to suppress.]]

   “We have arrested the pirates, confiscated their eye patches, cheap plastic parrots, and their cheap plastic inflatable pirate ship, and told them to stop acting like silly children. [[9. They probably didn’t do anything at all and got confused because the Cartels kept talking about Pirates (#5b, misuse of language again), so they looked up the word in a translation dictionary and someone on the petty little bureaucrat’s staff made up something that sounded like it went with what the ‘American Leaders’ (Cartel wonks on a junket) were complaining about.]] [[further commentary on the poor Quality Control in PRC. Some of the instruction books and other printed material that are included in goods produced in the PRC are totally incomprehensable despite the words being written in English. I have even seen some errors that were so ludicrous and dangerous as to be funny, such as “Please to use toasting oven unit on bathing area.” intead of “Do not use appliance in bathroom.”]] [[Being that this piece combines elements of satire, parody, and lampoonery, it charicatures certain aspects of common perceptions (& misconceptions) and exaggerates them. That’s precisely what stereotyping is, as well, often with a negative result.]]

   “We have taken away their portable DVD machines, mounted in cheap plastic cases, for at least a month and will not give them back until they promise to behave properly and only use them for copying state-approved materials onto the cheap plastic disks. [[#1 again, plus the repeated use of the term ‘cheap plastic’ is a commentary on how Western, Particularly North American society, and it’s values have evolved.]]

   “For that month, they will be re-educated in the proliteriat values of honest work at a People’s Factory that produces cheap plastic sex toys that Americans seem to like very much because they are made out of cheap plastic, like American credit cards and Barbie. [[commentary about forced labor in the PRC. commentary about the trade situation with China where we’re being buried in cheap, shoddy goods manufactured there by serverely undercompensated workers toiling in dangerous conditions. Commentary on the general view of many in the Far East that American’s are totally pre-occupied with sex. commentary about American spending habits of treating credit lines on their credit cards as found money rather than debt to go forth and engage in rampant consumerism (Barbie reference.)]]

   “We hope these actions please those who live in the House Painted White and that they will send us more episodes of Honorable Bob of Sponge with Pants so Square.” [[Final dig at repressive PRC regime who for years were brainwashing their people into thinking we were evil, devil worshipping people who ate our own children and other far more horrible things, yet who have an insatiable appetite for American Culture, even though they don’t understand the resulting media output from it because they have no cultural context to place it in.]]

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   So yes, I guess I am a jingoist xenophobe who can’t stand a misplaced modifier, dangling participle, or misused gerund.

   Oh, by the way…. What assumptions did you make about who I was while crafting your commentary? My age, gender, nationality, ethnic heritage, political persuasions, etc?

   –TurboGeek

4. Reader's Write Says:
   October 31st, 2005 at 11:30 am

   Thank you for your complimentary remarks and your support.

   –TurboGeek

5. Reader's Write Says:
   October 31st, 2005 at 3:25 pm

   I would say that you are about a 35 years old male who is an American (Citizen of the P.S.A.). I would also say that you are of central or Eastern European culture and a Libertarian or Constitutionalist.

   BTW this is may FIRST comment to your parody, I love it

6. Reader's Write Says:
   October 31st, 2005 at 5:50 pm

   “jingoist xenophobe who can’t stand a misplaced modifier, dangling participle, or misused gerund”

   huh? =)

7. Reader's Write Says:
   November 1st, 2005 at 5:15 am

   Julian Bond wrote:

   “Hmmm. Exactly who are you lampooning here? The crooks in the House Painted White; Xenophobic North Americans who believe the racial stereotypes; Chinese who will eventually own your ass but don’t speak perfect english like what we speak?

   Far from being satire, this looks more like something that perpetuates all three.”

   The passage that puzzled you was the summary of a response to the above post.

   –TurboGeek

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