Chinese Pianist Plays Propaganda Tune at White House

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http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/49822/

Lang Lang the pianist says he chose it. Chairman Hu Jintao recognized it as soon as he heard it. Patriotic Chinese Internet users were delighted as soon as they saw the videos online. Early morning TV viewers in China knew it would be played an hour or two beforehand. At the White House State dinner on Jan. 19, about six minutes into his set, Lang Lang began tapping out a famous anti-American propaganda melody from the Korean War: the theme song to the movie “Battle on Shangganling Mountain.”

The film depicts a group of “People’s Volunteer Army” soldiers who are first hemmed in at Shanganling (or Triangle Hill) and then, when reinforcements arrive, take up their rifles and counterattack the U.S. military “jackals.”

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[TexasCop]

Was this before or after the President bowed down to Hu Jintao?   

[Attero Dominatus]

The president will never realize that he has just been insulted. He is too stuck on stupid.

From 'Mister Gorbechev, tear down this wall!' to 'We welcome China's rise' (his own words: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20028958-503544.html) in just two decades.

[gurn]

It's so strange & so stupid, it has to be true.

http://bigpeace.com/jhoft/2011/01/23/pianist-plays-anti-american-pro-commie-song-at-obama-white-house-state-dinner/#idc-cover

It's a song that calls Americans jackals or wolves, depending on the translation. It's an insult to every Korean War veteran.

So I think Obama owes an apology...to Hu Jin Tao. Obama should have been a more gracious host. He should have stood up,
put his hand over his heart and sang along. He should have given a little speech then, praising the Communists and denouncing
the running jackals of American imperialism.

By-the-way, the pianist has made a lot of money in the US. I hope his future concerts in the US will be sell-outs.
This song should snare him a Grammy at least. Maybe Obama could present it at the awards show.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I don't know about wolves, but the Wolfhounds sure ripped the PLA a huge new one in Korea.

 

[cavegal]

During this visit when Hu was in Chicago they signed papers letting them buy some banks in this country. They have GE technology. GM is partially owned by China. So this tune is fitting for this WH.

[Eupher]

It's so strange & so stupid, it has to be true.

http://bigpeace.com/jhoft/2011/01/23/pianist-plays-anti-american-pro-commie-song-at-obama-white-house-state-dinner/#idc-cover

It's a song that calls Americans jackals or wolves, depending on the translation. It's an insult to every Korean War veteran.

So I think Obama owes an apology...to Hu Jin Tao. Obama should have been a more gracious host. He should have stood up,
put his hand over his heart and sang along. He should have given a little speech then, praising the Communists and denouncing
the running jackals of American imperialism.

By-the-way, the pianist has made a lot of money in the US. I hope his future concerts in the US will be sell-outs.
This song should snare him a Grammy at least. Maybe Obama could present it at the awards show.

Despite the sarcasm, I think you're selling Obama short.

I can see him using this event to show how he's been victimized. That'll push his ratings up north of 30%, I'll betcha.

 

[Red October]

I don't know about wolves, but the Wolfhounds sure ripped the PLA a huge new one in Korea.

 

Just call us teufelhunden.   

[gurn]

It's all just a misunderstanding.

Lang Lang, who lives in both the United States and China, issued a statement saying that "I 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."

He said his goal was to "bridge cultures together through the beauty and inspiration of music … America and China are my two homes. I am most grateful to the United States for providing me with such wonderful opportunities, both in my musical studies and for furthering my career."

Lang Lang will be in southern California on Tuesday night, performing with the Pacific Symphony in Costa Mesa.

In a better era, he'd be booed off the stage. He might have even been booted out at the airport.

And I hope in the future, he'll be deprived of one of his homes.

But I'll bet Hollywood's the next stop for him.  
 

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-0125-white-house-pianist-20110124,0,5766849.story

[Karin]

Beck highlighted this at the end of his show yesterday.  Said the Protocol Officer should be fired for it.  I agree.  What an embarrassment this was.  The whole presidency is an embarrassment.  I cringe whenever they have one of these galas....what's going to happen this time?  What atrocity will Michelle wear?  What astoundingly inappropriate gifts will Obama come bearing? 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, it's pretty much like having your musicians play "Slap the Jap" at a Presidential visit to Tokyo, or "Battle of New Orleans" in London. 

[Eupher]

Yeah, it's pretty much like having your musicians play "Slap the Jap" at a Presidential visit to Tokyo, or "Battle of New Orleans" in London. 

Along these same lines, there was an informal rule about NOT playing the National Anthem to West Germany in West Berlin, while the city was still in occupation status (until Oct. 1990, the city was still officially occupied by the allies, including the Soviets). For that reason, the German anthem whose words still state "Deutschland, Ueber Alles" wouldn't be played.

It wouldn't have been a complete turd in the punchbowl had we played it, but out of political correctness, most bandmasters I'm aware of adhered to that informal rule.

One guy didn't, though, and I remember little or nothing said about it - but I wasn't privy to all the bitchslapping that went on in those days. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Actually, Euph, I think only the third namby-pamby, touchy-feely 'Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit' verse is the 'Official' Federal Republic anthem since the War.  Apparently due to past associations the use of even the tune itself is still a matter of some controversy among the German equivalents of our DUmmies and other mixed-nut Democrats.

An interesting feature of those German Blasmusik and Volkslieder in general is that there are some familiar tunes and musical phrases that are used in more than one context, for instance parts of the Imperial Fridericus Marsch and a few if the folk songs sound to me to have been recycled in various Nazi pieces, the Panzerlied and the folksong Lusika use the same sheet music, and the folk song An die Nordseekueste also uses the same music as the Irish folksong Wild Rover.

[Eupher]

Actually, Euph, I think only the third namby-pamby, touchy-feely 'Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit' verse is the 'Official' Federal Republic anthem since the War.  Apparently due to past associations the use of even the tune itself is still a matter of some controversy among the German equivalents of our DUmmies and other mixed-nut Democrats.

An interesting feature of those German Blasmusik and Volkslieder in general is that there are some familiar tunes and musical phrases that are used in more than one context, for instance parts of the Imperial Fridericus Marsch and a few if the folk songs sound to me to have been recycled in various Nazi pieces, the Panzerlied and the folksong Lusika use the same sheet music, and the folk song An die Nordseekueste also uses the same music as the Irish folksong Wild Rover.

Ah, okay, being an instrumentalist, I don't pay attention to the words anyway!   

And regarding the Blasmusik and Volkslieder, about all I can remember any more is that tune Hoch die Tassen!. In all honesty, we didn't do too much of that stuff in Berlin except one gig on Rosenmontag. How many times can you blast a Bb major chord?  Some of the Army marches I remember, though: Bayerischer Defiliermarsch; Marsch aus Petersburg; and the big tune of all time, Alte Kameraden.

Speaking of mamby pamby, in lieu of the German national anthem, what we played in Berlin almost exclusively was Berliner Luft - a dumbass tune with some ****ing whistling in it. Dopey, but the Berliners loved it.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, 'Alte Kameraden' there is about like 'Soldiers of the Queen' in England, you can't go wrong with it.  The thing I always remember about Berlin, which I never actually got to, was the old Bavarian guy who worked for me saying, "Hmmmph, Berliners.  Zey vill shteal ennyting."

[true_blood]

During this visit when Hu was in Chicago they signed papers letting them buy some banks in this country. They have GE technology. GM is partially owned by China. So this tune is fitting for this WH.

You said it CG. We're rebuilding China while America is struggling with HUGE unemployment/underemployment numbers and a very HURT economy.
Funny how Immelt is the CEO of GE and now works in the White Mosque. Odd, isn't it?

[Eupher]

Yeah, 'Alte Kameraden' there is about like 'Soldiers of the Queen' in England, you can't go wrong with it.  The thing I always remember about Berlin, which I never actually got to, was the old Bavarian guy who worked for me saying, "Hmmmph, Berliners.  Zey vill shteal ennyting."

Reminds me of the time my girlfriend and I motored down from Berlin and wound up at the Munich Hofbräuhaus. Sat down next to this fat, smelly Bavarian. We chatted for a little bit, then he asked, in his indecipherable dialect, "Woher kommt ihr, denn?". My girlfriend answered, "Berlin. Wo denn sonst?"

With that, he sort of looked sideways at her and muttered under his breath,

"Verdammte Preusse'"

 

[DumbAss Tanker]

 

The Freistaat Bayern has really never gotten over the whole unification thing.

[Eupher]

The Freistaat Bayern has really never gotten over the whole unification thing.

You mean the one from 1871, right?    (Those guys are a little slow, ain't they?)

They still haven't quite wrapped their brains around the one from 1990, though apart from the Eastie Beasties having overrun their Freistaat, they don't much care.

Beer is much more important. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, the 1871 one...the one in the 90's they viewed as having pluses and minuses, one of the big minuses being getting the Prussians back.

[true_blood]

So,...the people in the WHite Mosque didn't know that Lang Lang was going to play that tune? ::)I find it hard to believe.
And our "leader" sits there and smiles.

[gurn]

So,...the people in the WHite Mosque didn't know that Lang Lang was going to play that tune? ::)I find it hard to believe.
And our "leader" sits there and smiles.

Imam Barack knows all & sees all.

Here's another good article on the subject from AEI. "A State Insult With Chinese Characteristics"

http://www.american.com/archive/2011/january/a-state-insult-with-chinese-characteristics

[true_blood]

Imam Barack knows all & sees all.
Here's another good article on the subject from AEI. "A State Insult With Chinese Characteristics"
http://www.american.com/archive/2011/january/a-state-insult-with-chinese-characteristics

That's disgusting!
After all, all the radicals in the White Mosque love themselves some Mao.

[gurn]

Tea Partiers & conservatives need to put out the word.

That blow-dried piece of crap Lang Lang, played a concert in Columbus Ohio.
And only one protester showed up.

http://www.meetup.com/townhall-99/events/16183972/

He is on a US concert tour now and nobody is protesting.

I'm not in the US right now. But I'll be happy to show up when I am.
It really pisses me off, that little blow-dried, candy-ass POS.

But hey, it was an Obama state dinner. Of course they'll be playing anti-American propaganda songs.
What else should we expect?