China has had a rough year when it comes to producing toothpaste laced with poison, toys full of lead, and pajamas literally made of deadly levels of formaldehyde.
At the last minute, a high ranking Chinese official decided seven year old Yang Peiyi, tapped to sing for the Olympics opener, wasn’t pretty enough and her teeth weren’t straight enough to represent her country. So fifteen minutes before showtime, nine year old Lin Miaoke was brought in to replace Yang Peiyi - and lip sync. Lin Miaoke had no trouble taking all the credit for her “beautiful voice” after the performance.
Well, I guess this makes sense in some weird way since other parts of the Olympics opener were faked, too.
China has 20% of the world’s population at over a billion people. They couldn’t locate their own version of Lil’ Romeo or Taylor Swift and instead chose to break a little girl’s heart - in the name of patriotism?
1 comments:
Ed, thanks for bringing this out into the open - saw it on the news but your take has a better edge to it. This follows the huge earthquake where, due to China's one child rule has ruined the families that lost a child in the poorly constructed schools. But, they threw one hell of an opening ceremony the other night, huh?
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