Liar, Liar....More on the Fire

To Mr Elegant,

Usually if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything. It is like your neighbor is celebrating the first 100 days of his first born child, you come in and say, this children is going to die some day. There is nothing wrong theoretically, but you are still an A HO, right?

Mr. Elegant,
As much as the government wants to put a lid on this, the charcoaled remains of the building still stands as a reminder. This leaves one wondering what shall be done next . . . shall the building be toppeled as quickly as possible or shall they try to salvage it, or maybe they'll put a very large tarp over it with it painted to appear as if the building was never on fire.

Mr. Elegant probably forgot that nobody should say anything bad about China. And, of course, nothing bad ever happens in China. Everything is just good, if not excellent. And that's what Chinese wants to read.

No more bad news about China, OK ?

We must put this "fire" thing in the right perspective for the Chinese audience, so that their easily hurt feeling would be pained. We should call it the most glorious firework display ever, and should be made a cultural heritage. How the Chinese government controlled the messaging about this glorious event must be congratulated and named the best information provision program ever. We must also focus on how great the Chinese government has handle the event, and blame any inconvenience on the US.

Brilliant John!

While on the topic of positive views of Chinese news, there is another positive look at this glorious Firework Display.

We all know that one of the most important measure the Chinese government uses to deal with the financial mess caused solely by the US government is to increase internal consumption. This is the best demonstration how this could be done, with a huge leverage effect. This is a very creative way to use a 10RMB firecracker to create opportunity to spend zillions of RMB. The lost of live is, of course, very regrettable. And, therefore, the victim should be honored with a Revolutionary Hero medal for contribution to the economic revival of China.

Another way to see the incident in Beijing:

Didn't Wen said: 多难兴邦 ? What better way to build a strong China ?

Send goods to the dead by burning is a great invention and tradition of Chinese. I just wonder who is going to receive such a big and luxurious building as the Spring Festival gift. Mao ? Jiang Qing ? Lin Biao ? Zhou ? Victims of the earth quake ?

Great news from China, again.

You don't know what you are missing.
http://www.telunsu.net/news_view.jsp?id=505

Everyone should be drinking this. It is a pity if you are not in China.

This is the most ridiculous of all comments I have ever read about this glorious event:
CCTV 新 楼 极 具 後 现 代 风 格 ， 由 两 根 斜 柱 加 一 横 杠 ， 东 邪 西 毒 ， 前 仰 後 合 ， 酷 似 变形 金 刚 大 玩 具 ， 遂 被 老 百 姓 讥 讽 为 「 大 裤 衩 」 和 「 邪 门 」 。 依 我 看 ， 奥 雷 不 但 设 计意 念 前 衞 ， 拜 张 曼 玉 所 赐 ， 还 多 少 知 道 一 点 中 国 国 情 ， 他 和 「 鞋 袭 温 总 」 的 剑 桥 愤青 是 同 胞 ， 亦 似 同 党 ， 便 暗 喻 CCTV 是 包 住 党 国 羞 处 的 大 裤 衩 ， 从 裤 裆 流 出 的 谎 言十 足 「 邪 门 」 。
却 说 如 今 烧 掉 的 是 配 楼 ， 主 楼 叫 CCTV ， 配 楼 电 视 文 化 中 心 叫 TVCC ， 它 立 在 大 裤 衩 跟 前 ， 颇 有 点 阳 具 「 崛 起 」 的 意 味 。 大 陆 新 生 代 作 家 韩 寒 说： 央 视 把 「 鸡 鸡 」 烧 掉 ， 是 自 宫 ， 符 合 太 监 形 象 ， 央 视 不 配 有 「 鸡 鸡 」 。 我 没 那 麽恶 毒 ， 只 觉 得 这 是 艾 灸 疗 法 ， 配 楼 TVCC 自 诩 「 中 国 之 窗 」 ， 百 姓 则 称 为 「 中 国 痔疮 」 。 痔 疮 长 在 喉 舌 ， 要 多 难 受 有 多 难 受 ， 如 今 一 把 火 将 痔 疮 烧 掉 ， 岂 不 甚 好 ？

It's really interesting to see someone on the earth (no matter where he is) who is really enjoy this issue that much. So I can only conclude that special Spring Festival Gift was for him. Dear Mr.9876, enjoy and you deserve it.

To a large extent, many human beings are great pretenders, and cunning perjurers at that. But perhaps the greatest fabricators come from the mass media. Somehow, most journalists often self-assume that they are the seekers of truth. Unfortunately, some turn out to be poor equivocators.

The few sarcastic comments from the readers can be disgusting, showing the slightest respect for others. The Whites and their sympathizers should realize that the current global economic turmoil was largely their undoing, relentlessly inflating financial figures out of proportion and incessantly creating false images of the economic health. Who, then, are worse liars?

LIAR, LIAR, your name is MAN. The worst liar is one who intends to harm others but end up harming himself eventually.
(Tan Boon Tee)

Tanboontee's comment led me to consider the possibility that the fire was actually caused by the global economic turmoil that was caused by the evil US. Since the fire is a great stimulator for Chinese internal consumption, it is at least a good solution to the turmoil. I won't put it past China to come up with such a brilliant solution, and therefore, the economic turmoil is a good candidate of a cause of the fire. And therefore the US is guilty, again.

johnsmith: If you mind what the five-jiaos(五毛) said, I think you should be away from this site. See how this guy who keeps blaming the CCP draws a large amount of flies and malicious attacks, and how he persists in doing the toughest job!(if you can read Chinese)

格丘山的多维博客: http://blog.dwnews.com/gonature/

Maybe I have ever mistaken you before, due to your over-ironic words. So, buddy, keep going! ignore the rubbishs!

"We all know that one of the most important measure the Chinese government uses to deal with the financial mess caused solely by the US government is to increase internal consumption. This is the best demonstration how this could be done, with a huge leverage effect. This is a very creative way to use a 10RMB firecracker to create opportunity to spend zillions of RMB. The lost of live is, of course, very regrettable. And, therefore, the victim should be honored with a Revolutionary Hero medal for contribution to the economic revival of China."

---Johnsmith: Great job! I love this!

"Send goods to the dead by burning is a great invention and tradition of Chinese. I just wonder who is going to receive such a big and luxurious building as the Spring Festival gift. Mao ? Jiang Qing ? Lin Biao ? Zhou ? Victims of the earth quake ?"

---Hahahaha! Fantastic! You are awesome, John! Excuse me, maybe I should rewrite your first sentence to make it easier to understand for non-Chinese:

Burning paper-copied commodities as sacrifices for the dead is a great invention and tradition of Chinese.

Is it right? Maybe I am "playing axe in front of the door of LuBan(班门弄斧)". LOL!

殃视“自焚”闹元宵
文/小贺

正月十五好热闹
殃视自焚闹元宵
万家烟花皆失色
唯有殃视烟火高

Great poetry!

元夜竹枝词
章立凡

海选征名号智窗，敞开鸟腿裸奔忙。
奈何私处遭回禄，火柱擎天照裤裆。
晾完裤衩晾鸡鸡，天火元宵映万家。
日月无光牛首黯，民膏十亿落灯花。

央视失火韩寒发言
2009-02-10

1：不幸中的万幸，听说大楼在装修阶段，希望不要有人员伤亡。

2：最重要的也是容易纠缠的一个问题是，这个烟花究竟是老百姓放的，还是央视元宵晚会之后自己放的，相关部门一定要给一个公正的答案。不搪塞，不推卸，不栽赃。

3：烟花爆竹的燃放一定要注意安全。

4：此楼一直被说是央视裤衩下的鸡鸡，现在央视自己把鸡鸡给烧了，这样的自宫行为，彻底的符合了央视身为全球第一大太监媒体的形象。的确，央视暂时还不配有鸡鸡。

5：第一时间，我打开电视，看中央电视台的新闻，央视很镇定，情绪很稳定，在不停的播放澳大利亚的火灾。

6：如果央视的新闻联播在那时候开始，主持人播报完情况，镜头可以直接摇向窗外再摇回来，成为史上第一个无剪切新闻。

7：我告诉我朋友，看网站上的新闻，火灾了。朋友打开一看说胡说，根本没有新闻。

8：我一看，果然都没了，原来是圣旨到——“各网，中央电视台新大楼北配楼发生火灾相关报道，请各网站只用新华社通稿，不发图片，视频，不做深度报道，只放国内新闻区，关闭跟帖，自然滚动，博客论坛不置顶，不推荐。

9：我们就是这样大事化小，小事化无。财产损失就损失吧，反正纳税人的钱不是烧了就是吃了，横竖总是个浪费，只是希望元宵佳节，楼里的施工人员，消防人员可以平安回家。尤其是消防员，每次在火灾或者车祸现场看见他们，觉得他们还是非常可敬的。

10：至于央视，真是没有想到，一个永远在讲真话的媒体，居然会遭受这个创伤，上天无眼。

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"Burning paper-copied commodities as sacrifices for the dead is a great invention and tradition of Chinese."

Problems with this statement are:
1. The burning is not a "sacrifice". It is for use by the recipient. Burning is "sending".

2. "paper-copied" is only used by cheap people. Sincere ones use the real thing. Some times the real stuff are sent at burial. That's why dead emperors got real wives, girls and servants buried with them. Subsequent ones are sent by burning. And the AVCC building is a good example of burning the real thing. This proves that the Chinese government is sincere about the welfare of the departed ones.

Funny, funny, funny! John, you are talented. We don't know how surprised "Mao, Jiang Qing, Lin Biao, Zhou" will be when they receive such a "big penis", haha!!

conscienceinchina: You mean they should have sent the under pant instead ? Mao, Jiang Qing, Lin Biao and Zhou should all know what to do with under pants. Or do they ? I know they won't want the bird nest or the water bubble.