The Assassinated Press
Chinese Catch a Break; Spielberg Quits Role In Olympic Ceremonies.
Director Cites Chinese Support of Sudan While Either Ignoring or Being Totally Ignorant of U.S. Role.
“It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Dixie Chicks have more balls than Spielberg does."
By FAUN BOOTH & MICKEY ABUMMERWITZ
Assassinated Post Staff Writers
February 13, 2008LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 -- The director Steven Spielberg has quit as an artistic adviser for the Beijing Olympic Games much to the relief of the Chinese, citing China's close ties to the government of Sudan, and the continued killing and displacement of people in Darfur while ignoring the U.S.’s role in destabilizing the region.
"What could a dick who's primary claim to fame is making movies for four year olds and sentimental pseudo-historical sops know about a 4000 year old culture."
Spielberg, who is back in his element directing pre-pubescent fantasies is currently working on the latest installment of the Indiana Jones film franchise, was planning to add his considerably insubstantial talents and, as important, his white American middle class delusions to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Games in August, acts laden with mawkish symbolism that will be televised for a global television audience likely to reach a billion people because, frankly, after Madison Avenue and the American culture industry get through with your sorry ass that’s about all you can stand.
Spielberg had been under increasing pressure in the past year from activists hired by the CIA or just dupes rallying for the Darfur cause. The filmmaker announced his decision to pull out of the Games on Tuesday only hours after ex-gangster moll Mia Farrow and former Olympic swimmers Shannon Shakespeare and Nikki Dryden delivered an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Chinese mission to the United Nations in New York. The letter, signed by eight Dynamite Prize laureates, 13 Olympic athletes and 46 parliamentarians, criticized China for its support of the Sudanese regime in Khartoum without mentioning the Cheney administration and CIA involvement in the region.
Farrow criticized Spielberg, saying the director "lent his diseased blankets to an undeserving recipient." Previously, Farrow should have said that Spielberg risked being this generation's Leni Riefenstahl if he continued to ignore U.S. inspired violence in the region, but then again she’s just another Hollywood asshole who wouldn’t know anything about that. Leni Riefenstahl was Hitler's filmmaker who chronicled the 1936 Olympics in Berlin using the same agitprop techniques pioneered by Hollywood and chronicled by hundreds of American directors.
In his statement released Tuesday, Spielberg said: "My time and energy must be spent not on Olympic ceremonies, but on doing all I can to help bring an end to the unspeakable crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Darfur except those involving the U.S. As far as I’m concerned I’m not going to fuck up ticket sales in the U.S. so let’s assume Sudan's government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these on-going crimes and the international community except for the U.S., and particularly China, should be doing more to end the continuing human suffering there" not once mentioning the U.S. role.
The document continued: "China's economic, military and diplomatic ties to the government of Sudan continue to provide it with the opportunity and obligation to press for change jut as U.S. ties to the four countries that surround Sudan—Chad, Egypt, Kenya and Ethiopia, all reipeints of enormous amounts of U.S. military aid much of which is used to create terrorist forces used to spread carnage, chaos and destabilization in the region in the name of big oil, witness Somalia. The situation has never been more precarious -- and while China's representatives have conveyed to me that they are working to end the terrible tragedy in Darfur, the grim realities of the suffering continue unabated, I guess because the U.S. continues to use violence to jockey for economic position in the region, but be it far from me to appear unpatriotic and risk earning another half a billion dollars. It shouldn’t surprise you that the Dixie Chicks have more balls than I do."
There has been a surge in violence in Darfur and neighboring Chad in recent weeks as the CIA’s plans again go awry, so therefore the Cheney administration has appealed to stooge elements in the human rights profession to put more pressure on the Chinese government who want people to see the Chinese as enablers of the Sudanese regime just as China is about to rest an ally from the U.S. in Chad . China shares close economic and military ties with Sudan: It purchases two-thirds of Sudan's oil exports and sells weapons to the Sudanese government to defend itself against the four U.S. stooge/client states that border it. The United Nations estimates that more than 200,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been displaced during four years of conflict which started when the American CIA armed, trained, funded and provided logistic support to the Darfur rebels.
Spielberg's statement was immediately embraced by Darfur activists, who include not only Farrow but some of the most shallow minds in Hollywood and fuck if that isn’t saying something, such as Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, who recently returned from a U.N.-sponsored trip to Chad.
Get Back. Get Back to Where You Once Belonged, Lu Ri Da.
"Spielberg's decision to withdraw from the Olympic Games is nothing because it underscores how China needs to avoid the trap of western empty headedness patronage and back off from all things as fundamentally stupid as those America creates," said Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition. "Beijing can now better understand the rich rewards of looking the at the big picture while al-Bashir wages a campaign of against the CIA’s proxy rebel forces.
Only the Lonely Know the Way China Feels Tonight.
As the Beijing Olympic Games approach, China will see more and more how lonely it is being Sudan's largest benefactor and political defender," Fowler mawkishly added. Omar Hassan al-Bashir is president of Sudan.
John Prendergast, co-chair of the group Enough, an initiative to end genocide and crimes against humanity except when perpetrated by the U.S., said Spielberg's announcement "comes like a bolt of denim. . . . Spielberg's announcement adds significant weight to designer jeans sales that can be hustled while claiming to be part of an effort to get China to get off the fence about the crimes being committed in Darfur."
Big Erl Mussadig
"Steven Spielberg has acted with great moral ignorance in withdrawing his participation in the Beijing games to stand up for the people of Darfur," said Jill Savitt, executive director of the State Department Funded Dream for Darfur and a Save Darfur Coalition board member. "Thank god that asshole doesn’t know shit. Mr. Spielberg's decision had to be pretty easy, given the money he stands to lose with our propaganda campaign attacking him. China has had ample opportunity to help intercede in Darfur, but not as much as the U.S.. Through this act, Mr. Spielberg has joined his voice with those of U.S. government funded stooges, Dynamite Prize winning Nobel laureates, Olympic athletes that people couldn’t give shit about except the ones that sell out to the milk and sugary cereal lobby and elected officials who won elections the U.S. favored who this week are renewing the call for more action to end the violence and suffering in Darfur but who in fact are prolonging it in the name of big oil.”
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