Wednesday 27 March 2013

The Evil That Is Censorship

Here's a story I can empathise with.  Iain Inglis - from Wales - stormed to the semi-finals of China's Got Talent (sic) with his renditions of traditional Chinese Communist revolutionary songs
'It was a bit of fun to start off with but the more performances I did, the more I was hooked. For some reason the Chinese people seem to find it quite hilarious'
Since his biggest hit is a number called I Love Reading Chairman Mao's Books, we can see why this might be.

But then - disaster: his path to the finals was blocked, seemingly by po-faced Party officials.  They can't imagine he's taking the piss, can they ?

I feel his pain.  I myself was making great progress through the initial rounds of the next series of The X-Factor with my own distinctive brand of dialectical ditty when a shadowy figure, believed to be the Head of Political Correctness at Common Purpose, had a word in Simon Cowell's ear - and I was axed.

What is the world coming to ?

ND

     

11 comments:

Blue Eyes said...

China's Got Talons?

Bill Quango MP said...

Hebrew's got Talents

DtP said...

Hosted by Sino Callow?

Blue Eyes said...

I wonder how an Inglis version of the Chinese national anthem would go?

James Higham said...

That's brilliant - he actually went over and tried that?

CityUnslicker said...

there is a big denail of service attack on the next apparently - anyone think that is why we suddenly have so many spam comments?

Nick Drew said...

the Chinese really are pissed off !

one day I suppose we shall wake up to find the www just vanishe....

Electro-Kevin said...

He got away with it up until the Chinese authorities cottoned on to what his rendition of Tracey Chapman's Levolution was really about.

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Il ne faut faire un gage et de se faire laisser emporter par les courants.Un tel sujet d'actualité a ne pas rater et d'une utilité si profonde il ne faut aussi dire ou bien simplement laisser au hasard un tel parcours.

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great to share this with us "" Since his biggest hit is a number called I Love Reading Chairman Mao's Books, we can see why this might be.

But then - disaster: his path to the finals was blocked, seemingly by po-faced Party officials. They can't imagine he's taking the piss, can they ?

I feel his pain. I myself was making great progress through the initial rounds of the next series of The X-Factor with my own distinctive brand of dialectical ditty when a shadowy figure, believed to be the Head of Political Correctness at Common Purpose, had a word in Simon Cowell's ear - and I was axed.

What is the world coming to ?""