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Known lamer Hu Jintao, the President of China, had to cut short his stay at the boring, disorganized Italian G8 kegger today so as to “deal with” deadly riots in his country’s northwest Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, boo. (At least that’s his excuse; he just didn’t want to answer gay Europe’s treehugger questions about the new coal-fired power plants he opens every week — awkward!) 156 people have died in this latest bout of Uighur-Han Chinese violence centered in the city Urumqi, which is like China’s Seattle. So. Should Bermudans be worried that the four released Uighurs from Guantanamo Bay will kill them all? Violent deathbot Andy McCarthy of the National Review weighs in!
Hard to Believe the Lovable Uighurs Could Be Involved in Terrorism . . . [Andy McCarthy]
even though the ones we were holding at Gitmo were trained in al-Qaeda-affiliated camps.
The Wall Street Journal (as flagged in the NRO web briefing) reports on rioting in China by Uighur “students” that has left scores dead and hundreds wounded. The “students,” described elsewhere in the story as from a “predominantly Muslim ethnic group[, which has] long chafed at restrictions on their civil liberties and religious practices imposed by a Chinese government fearful of political dissent,” expressed their dissent by torching cars and buses, as well as — according to accounts of some witnesses to state-controlled media — rampaging “with big knives stabbing people” on the street.
No reason for non-Muslims in Bermuda, Palau, or the United States to worry, though. The lovable Uighurs are merely trying to address “economic and social discrimination.” Once they get social justice, I’m sure they’ll stop.
GOOD. LORD.
How many times does it need to be said? The Chinese Uighurs have no desire and have never desired to commit terrorism against the United States or random tourist islands or Evangelical Presbyterians in central fucking Kansas. The U.S. should consider itself *lucky* that this is the case, after our beloved government beat the shit out of 22 of them in a secret medieval prison for seven years simply because they learned how to shoot guns in Afghanistan. People know how to shoot guns here too, Andy! Seen THIS? I suppose these are just “Real Americans.”
Hard to Believe the Lovable Uighurs Could Be Involved in Terrorism [NRO/The Corner]
Han shot first.
first chinaland, then the world! the uighur “students” will be infiltrating us from the north, after crossing over the bering straits under the ever-watchful eye of caribou barbie. first on their list of targets are all the “journalists.”
Andy objectively supports Chinese Communism.
Some of my best friends are Uighros.
Before we know it the terrorist Uighurs will take over China and loosen government regulation over manufacturing, killing American children with tainted products! We all know who the good ones are in this fight.
Kill ‘em all; let Andy sort ‘em out.
I still don’t understand why the Congressional Black Caucus isn’t doing more to stand up for … oh, “Wee-grrr”….nevermind.
What? No alt-text on that pic Jim? That blonde “news” reader on Fox is dumber than batshit. Actually I need to be more specific, the blonde guy is equally as stupid…they have to be twins…two for the price of one. Murdoch is economizing I suppose. Sarah Palin would fit right in with those two….and hell, while you are at it, maybe he can get Mika from Morning-Joe to round it out. Oh yes the Uighurs. Everytime I hear them mentioned on the news it sounds like they are saying “wigger” and for a second I think they are talking about Emimem.
Lovable Uighurs? Well, I was always rather fond of Vanilla Ice…
Wait, hang on, I’m trying to get this straight. When Muslims in Iran riot against political oppression we need to support them and bomb the shit out of their leaders, but when Muslims in China riot against much more severe political repression in their country, they are terrorists who should all be shipped to Gitmo and waterboarded forever?
I haz a confuzed. Perhaps the wingnuts could put together some sort of flowchart explaining which repressed Muslim populations I can support and which I should hope to see die in a fire.
So the National Review, a magazine started by anti-communists like Whittaker Chambers, Bill Buckley, and Frank Meyer, is now playing apologist for Communist China’s crackdown on its citizens? That guy on Glenn Beck was right, our only hope is for Bin Laden to attack us and kill all the “real ‘Mericans.”
If Andy had his druthers, the only imports we’d get from China would be summary executions, guilt-by-association labor camps, and sex toys.
The Stupid. It is Devastating.
Every time I hear one these asshats weigh in on foreign affairs, the fetid hypocrisy/inconsistency (So now we love the Chinese state and hate protesting ’students’…just like during Tiananmen, right?) makes me want to go rampaging with a big knive.
The Italians weren’t going for Jintao’s demand for royalties on pasta, anyhow. Also, in a big county like China, can’t he find some group to victimize that I can pronounce?
Andy loves him some Communist China.
I particularly enjoy the scare quotes around “students.”
Poor Weegers, can’t even spell. How can they possibly terror.
Now back to S Palin. Has any half-assed or full-sized-assed ‘journalist’ asked her if she can relate to the harrassment of Bill Clinton? She would prolly slug Andrea Mitchell for asking one like that.
Wait - that picture is a muppet, tight?
Send in the tanks! Don’t be a Ui-ghirly man, Mistah Hu.
Here’s a typical “rampaging” “student”…
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fg-china-riots-pictures,0,6178180.photogallery
God damn Uighurs out there protesting against a communist country due to a desire for freedom, the ability to worship how they please, and for social justice. Fucking terrorists.
“I know that” (some Wonkette readers) “dislike grammar police” but “jeebus” have they ever taken a (9th grade composition) class?
Ah, yes, Andy “Where’s the Birth Certificate, Huh? Huh?” McCarthy. I like how he keeps putting “students” in quotation marks. Perhaps China will take the hint and arrest everyone who attends school, which as everyone knows is merely a front organization for violent crazed Muslim terrorist invaders disguised as kids.
I’ll tell you what’s hard to believe, Andy. That National Review actually pays you for this crap.
Extemporanus: You have won the afternoon!
Let’s see if I got my winger/Fox talking points correct: Iranian muslin students (good guys) attacking follow Iranian muslin repressers who stole election (bad guys), so the students must love America because they want freedom. Uighur muslin students (bad guys) attacking Chinese Commie repressers who supply Wal-Mart (good guys), so the students hate America because they want freedom. Ok, got it.
alt text= “Caw! Caw!”
Is Andy McCarthy going to ask the guys at the Corner to turn their blog red in support of the Chinese government?
imissopus: You are forgetting about the investment portfolios of these human trash. But not to worry, I’m sure some of our corporations will help put the protesters down if they cause too much disruption, especially if they want social justice.
Can you hear me President Hu?
Are you really just a shadow of the man that I once knew?
Are you crazy, are you high…
Or just an ordinary guy?
Extemporanus: grendel: Agreed!
Today I am changing my screen name to Jukesghur. Solidarity!
pedestrian rage: A comma goes after “dislike grammar police”.
Or did you mean “butt”?
imissopus: Well put!
grendel: PEW!
cal: It’s actually a quote from about 2/3 of the way down the (much more objective than McCarthy protrays it) WSJ article. He neglects to mention that the WSJ reporter in Urumqi was led around as part of a group by Chinese security officials, who were probably present when he was getting the quotes from the Han Chinese they interviewed.
Oh also — the emphasis on “students” — you know what the word for student is in Pashto, right? I’m sure Andy used that deliberately to make the connection. It’s “taleban.”
Andy McCarthy — communist dupe.
If I hear another Weee-grrr joke I’m going to stab the entire damned internet. It’s pronounced like Udge-Yer. [/pedantic]
Like James Spader told Andrew McCarthy in Pretty in Pink: “If you got a hard-on for totalitarian Communist regimes, don’t take care of it around us, pal, all right?”
4tehlulz: Andy objectively supports Chinese Communism.
Yes he does. Unbelievable. Nothing like taking the state-controlled media at its word. And with a straight face no less.
Then again, as Tra says above, this taint-nibbling butt-sratcher rides the birth certificate short bus, so everything he has ever said can be safely ignored.
The Uighurs seized the opportunity to strike out when they saw the left Hans didn’t know what the right Hans were doing.
Meanwhile in all the confusion, they found Obama’s birth certificate in the city of Urumqi.
imissopus:
It’s so simple.
The Iran Muslimites protest so that may worship Henry Ford and the Baby Jesus in public. They are the good Islamos.
The Uighurs in China protest for social and economic equality, like the Negros in our country did 250 years just before they got their freedoms. They are the bad Mohams.
Clear?
Extemporanus: Hey, thanks for (sort of) stick up for me yesterday when they were calling me a meth-addicted fatty. For the record, I was not a meth addict. Nor am I a fatty! 6′3″ 220lbs is not fat!
I actually have desires to commit acts of terrorism against Evangelical Presbyterians in central fucking Kansas. I try to lie down and chill out when I have them, but they are there…
Why does Andy mention the economic and social discrimination they are experiencing in scare quotes? Isn’t it a right wing axiom that the Chinese government is communist and ipso facto economically and socially discriminatory? Or does hating Muslims precede hating communism now? Oh, the conflicts of right wing ideology.
It’s hard to take anyone seriously if they call themselves ‘Weejers’. Why not just call themselves ‘Boogers’ and get it over with? How about this instead: ‘Wee-Gods’, ‘Wee-Stars’, or even ‘Wee-gentinians’! Isn’t that better?
OzoneTom: That is five kinds of win.
It was all great in China before those damned Yankee liberal Uighur lovers came down and stirred up those lazy shiftless Uppity Uighurs. They need to remember their place if you know what I mean boy. A few hanging for the trees out to remind them who they are.
Andy seems to have missed the part of the news that described Han Chinese thugs rushing into Uigher neighborhoods and clubbing anyone and anything.
The methodology these guys learn at al-queda camp (it’s a sleepover camp, right?) has gone downhill. Stabbing people with big knives? Setting fire to cars?
Combover: O.k! ‘Wheat germ people’!!1!! Combover has to go to a safe and secure location now.
‘Wheat Germ People’!!!1!! Combover has to go to a ’safe and secure location’ now.
Andy McCarthy just loves him some torture and unjustified imprisonment. Because when we do that, he feels safe. Otherwise, he just cries himself to sleep (and pees on himself ’cause he’s so scared, don’t ya know). Is it so wrong for him to want these things? These simple, simple things. Because he feels so happy when he gets them. And isn’t that what’s really important? That Andy feel safe and happy?
Uighurs wobble but they don’t fall down
NEWSFASH: I just found the fan site for our favorite Fox news reader:
http://www.sesameplace.com/sesame/pa/attractions_sf_prairiedawn.aspx
cal: Wait - that picture is a muppet, tight?
Yes, and probably. But too crazy to be worth it.
Why is Corky wearing a blonde wig in that photo? It makes no sense.
hobospacejunkie: I guess I should’ve used the other picture you sent me instead. Sorry.
I never got the meth=endomorph connection, anyway. I am a meth addict, and I’m 6′5″ and weigh a buck fifty soaking wet.
hobospacejunkie: Damn, you are tall! You are approximately 8 inches taller than most other men in Austin. Why are Austin males so short? And how did you get so tall? I’m sorry to go off-topic; this issue seriously bugs the hell out of me.
Extemporanus: You amuse me.
Put those 4 Uighurs in Bermuda shorts and they’ll lose all terroristic tendencies. It always
works for me.
Extemporanus: It’s nice that you fixed up the sore. Joe will thank you I’m sure.
I say, why not we Wonkettes with some vacation time due go to Bermuda and encircle our dear Uighurs with our love and good wishes and drink on the beach til this all dies down? Who will follow me? We can be like the Lincoln Brigade of the olden times but not so communistic except for sharing the liquor. We can have our pictures taken for fox news and write plays about it later like Hemmingway. Mayor Bloomberg has a house there and maybe we can stay with him if we are real quiet and bribe the butler.
imissopus: Genious
And don’t even get him started on those Tienanmen “students” who threatened to damage government property (tanks) with their bodies in the fight for “social justice.”
Actually, Urumqi is like China’s Spokane. Trust me; I used to live there. Urumqi, not Spokane. I’m crazy, not stupid.
Oh, and Jim? Uighurs may not be terribly interested in attacking the US and its allies, but even the less hardcore of the bunch certainly support attacks against the US. Most of the Uighurs I knew in Xinjiang (certainly not all of them, but enough) were SUPER PSYCHED about the attacks on the World Trade Center, and spoke very highly of Osama bin Laden and his goals. Of course, there were many others who knew better, but they were college professors who had lived abroad.
Sure, the Uighur’s main gripe is with China. But like the US, China is also made up of human beings who don’t necessarily deserve to be blown up by bombs.
It is good to see National Review finally come out in defense of the Red Chinese over pitiful freedom fighters. How dare people try to have a revolution so that they can rule themselves instead of being ruled by a foreign power? Who ever heard of such an un-American thing.
Of course, Mr. McCarthy’s main disapointment is that George W. Bush did not show the same kind of resolve and shoot all the anti-war protesters. How was it must be at the National Review to see that only the Communist Chinese know how to value and preserve freedom.
Meaux: I grew up in Houston and my birth parents (I was adopted) have tall in the family. Plus I was well-fed. As for your question about there being so many short men in Austin, my guess is most were born elsewhere in relatively deprived circumstances so they didn’t eat as much, which motivated them (see previous Wonkette posts about hunger as motivator) to over-achieve. Eventually they achieved much & were rewarded by being transferred to Austin or were offered a step up the career ladder to move here. So now there’s lots of short, overachieving men in Austin. The end.
hobospacejunkie: Hmm, I thought your answer would be: The Rack.
here’s western hypocrisy again…
http://www.the-latest.com/chinese-unrest-and-the-biased-western-media-reports
no picture/video,no truth
pls. see the video made by the korean tv. Much innocent Hans were killed by the voilent Uighur:
http://rapidshare.de/files/47791895/090707_xinjang_xvid.avi.html
or
(much larger size)
http://d.namipan.com/d/090707_xinjang.wmv/d011126185f02a42b3975d23eae1303757c086326c08bf05