JONATHAN TURLEY

22 Responses to “Video: Chinese Political Adviser Trashes Airport After Missing Flight”

1. 1 rafflaw 1, February 25, 2013 at 8:09 am

   That is one angry dude. If he can’t operate on schedules, he should get his own plane.
2. 2 Mel Johansson (@H_E_Sarah) 1, February 25, 2013 at 8:11 am

   He appears surprised that the glass doesn’t shatter like it does in the movies. You do know that’s all done with props, right, dude?
3. 3 Frankly 1, February 25, 2013 at 8:17 am

   Rank has its privileges. Here our masters just smash airlines and bleed the money out of them. Of the two examples I sort of prefer this one to ours. At least they get to keep their jobs.
4. 4 Dredd 1, February 25, 2013 at 8:49 am

   How does one say adult brat in Chinese?
5. 5 Dredd 1, February 25, 2013 at 9:02 am

   At first I thought it was the director of Zero Dark Thirty at the Academy Awards:
   

   Just a few months ago, the consensus of the establishment press and the nation’s (shockingly large) community of film critics was that Zero Dark Thirty was the best film of the year and the clear (and well-deserved) front-runner to win the most significant Academy Awards. “OK, folks, you can plan something else for Oscar Night 2013 . . . . Zero Dark Thirty will win Best Picture and Best Director (Kathryn Bigelow),” pronounced Time Magazine’s Richard Corliss. “‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and Kathryn Bigelow won major critics’ prizes on Sunday, confirming the Osama bin Laden manhunt thriller as an Oscar frontrunner,” said Entertainment Weekly. The film “looks like the movie to beat right now” as the critics’ awards “landscape is dominated by Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’” reported the Washington Post’s Jen Chaney.

   But then political writers had begun to notice what film critics either failed to detect or just wilfully ignored. The film falsely depicted torture as instrumental in the finding of Osama bin Laden (“what is so unsettling about ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ is not that it tells this difficult history but, rather, that it distorts it”, said the New Yorker’s Jane Mayer). Beyond the torture falsehoods, it was a blatant vehicle for CIA propaganda, bolstering a worldview exclusively out of Langley (“This is not a coincidence. The CIA played a key role in shaping the film’s narrative,” reported BuzzFeed’s Michael Hastings; the CIA “couldn’t have asked for better product placement”, said the New York Times’ Timothy Egan; as a result, said The Atlantic’s Peter Maass: “Zero Dark Thirty represents a new genre of embedded filmmaking that is the problematic offspring of the worrisome endeavor known as embedded journalism”). In sum, said MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the film “colludes with evil” (a long but very partial list of writers, filmmakers, FBI agents and even government officials who similarly denounced the film is here).

   (Guardian). That was the review I gave it when it was extolled by a guest blogger here.

   Propaganda is as propaganda does.
6. 6 Mike Spindell 1, February 25, 2013 at 9:19 am

   Back in the late 60′s and early 70′s when Maoists abounded on the Left, I had a close fried with a Masters in Chinese history. His take on Mao and the Chinese Communists was that it was a system undifferentiated from the past governace by Emperor. History has proven him correct and most of our American Maoists o doubt became Republicans.
7. 7 Bron 1, February 25, 2013 at 9:30 am

   Mike Spindell:

   how so?
8. 8 Frankly 1, February 25, 2013 at 9:32 am

   Mike – and why wouldn’t they? There is so much they love there.
   They often praise the judicial system for its efficiency
   They love the economic system where workers are totally beholden to their masters
   They are desperately trying to emulate the Chinese governance and regulation of health and safety
   Though I think they prefer to present the Singapore face (putative democracy fronting for totalitarian oligarchy) the current Chinese system is the real end point for todays GOP
9. 9 Onlooker from Troy 1, February 25, 2013 at 11:01 am

   Wow! Like a three year old. Amazing what special treatment throughout life can breed. What an ass.
10. 10 P Smith 1, February 25, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    It speaks volumes that the “cops” in a dictatorship like the PRC didn’t immediately arrest him and drag him out of there. Not losing “face” and avoiding confrontation may be important to confucianist cultures, but even the most timid person is going to have limits on what will be tolerated. Only the “privilege” of rampant corruption could make someone think that behaviour is permissible.

    Then again, it’s not the first such incident I’ve heard of. Here’s one of a woman in Hong Kong, and she’s not one of the wealthy elite:

    Cripes, I once got detained for 20 minutes in Hong Kong because I had a 60ml bottle of contact lens solution, the manufacturer’s seal still intact. I can’t imagine what would have happened to me if I had made a scene or been uncooperative.
11. 11 bettykath 1, February 25, 2013 at 12:31 pm

    Obviously TSA hasn’t yet gone to China. The woman needs to be sent to her room until she can behave herself.
12. 12 Elsie DL 1, February 25, 2013 at 12:56 pm

    I taught Kindergarten for many years and both of these people in the videos need a serious ‘time-out’.
13. 13 Darren Smith 1, February 25, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    Disorderly Conduct
    Malicious Mischief
    (Possibly if threats were made) Harassment

    Hook him up.

    Simple
14. 14 Lrobby99 1, February 25, 2013 at 2:07 pm

    So tempted am I to leave a comment that I bet she is a screamer. But, I won’t.
15. 15 Jerome 1, February 25, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    China has long switched from being a communist to a fascist nation. Oppressed workers, banned independent unions, sweatshop conditions, wealthy elite who enjoy favors with the government. Yep, just like much of the 19th Century.
16. 16 nick spinelli 1, February 25, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    Politicians in ALL countries have a “Don’t you know who I am” attitude. That is except for Democrats..they would never act like this.
17. 17 SlingTrebuchet 1, February 25, 2013 at 5:00 pm

    Back in the day, Chinese people used to have a reputation for inscrutability.
18. 18 BarkinDog 1, February 25, 2013 at 11:02 pm

    Trasing an airport is similar to trashing a garbage dump.
19. 19 BarkinDog 1, February 25, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    That word is “trashing”. Not trasing.
20. 20 GMason 1, February 26, 2013 at 12:02 am

    If that was in America, he would have been tasered, pepper sprayed and beaten with batons and then subjected to cavity searches..
21. 21 Ralph Adamo 1, February 26, 2013 at 3:07 am

    These video recorded responses to missed flights are actually quite common in China. I would say that they were surprisingly placid in my experience. You should see what happens when baggage is misrouted in China.
22. 22 Anonymously Yours 1, February 26, 2013 at 7:38 am

    Rank/status has its privileges….