Child singer in Olympic opening ceremony was lip-synching

[DomS]

Originally posted by: sdifox
just saw the picture of the 2 kids and I have to say, I would have gone with the singer. Much more endearing than the cuter kid.

but there was nothing wrong with the girl who really did the singing. She may not be as cute, but she's not a troll...

 

[DanTMWTMP]

.... the actual singer doesn't look bad at all? 😕 The singer looks more geniune/homely with a genuine smile, and the lip-singer looks like she will grow up to be some stuck-up biatch with that fake smile.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: sdifox
just saw the picture of the 2 kids and I have to say, I would have gone with the singer. Much more endearing than the cuter kid.

but there was nothing wrong with the girl who really did the singing. She may not be as cute, but she's not a troll...

When I said singer, I meant the one who did the singing, not the face presented to the world..

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
.... the actual singer doesn't look bad at all? 😕 The singer looks more geniune/homely with a genuine smile, and the lip-singer looks like she will grow up to be some stuck-up biatch with that fake smile.

AKA Propaganda smile.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: DomS

Originally posted by: sdifox
just saw the picture of the 2 kids and I have to say, I would have gone with the singer. Much more endearing than the cuter kid.

but there was nothing wrong with the girl who really did the singing. She may not be as cute, but she's not a troll...

Reading comprehension ftl

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: DomS
nope...there's a picture of her in the link. Just an ordinary kiddo.

The only pic I see at the link is the one of the cute girl, not the ugly girl.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: DomS
nope...there's a picture of her in the link. Just an ordinary kiddo.

The only pic I see at the link is the one of the cute girl, not the ugly girl.

Click on the little arrow below the picture, it takes you to a whole different world. I mean picture...

PS, the kid that did the actual singing is not ugly.

 

[herkulease]

I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
I'm no China apologist, but the media is hellbent to demonize these Olympics just because of who the host country is. They need to get over it.

Oh I'm sure it's not just the media either. 😉

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
.... the actual singer doesn't look bad at all? 😕 The singer looks more geniune/homely with a genuine smile, and the lip-singer looks like she will grow up to be some stuck-up biatch with that fake smile.

AKA Propaganda smile.

propaganda smile is kawaii smile

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

You mean like only China is picked on when hosting the Olympics? Really?

 

[herkulease]

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

You mean like only China is picked on when hosting the Olympics? Really?

No I mean the media blowing the whole thing out way out of proportion like as if it is a major conspiracy going on.

this story is the headline on cnn.com, I don't have access to a tv but I'm willing to bet they are probably running stories about it on television too.

I'm sure the press can dig into better stories to make china look bad like the ages of some of the gymnast or more stories on how china essentially evicted people to build the villages and venues.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: herkulease
I'm sure the press can dig into better stories to make china look bad like the ages of some of the gymnast or more stories on how china essentially evicted people to build the villages and venues.

Like this?

CHINESE journalists have been prevented from reporting the stabbing murder of an American tourist at the Drum Tower and linking it to the Olympic Games.

In direct contravention of the promises made for press freedom in covering the Olympics, the notebooks and at least one tape recorder of a number of Chinese journalists were confiscated after a press conference held by the US men's volleyball team.

The team had been discussing the impact of the murder on them. The victim was the father-in-law of the team's coach, Hugh McCutcheon, and the father of a respected former national team member, Elisabeth McCutcheon.

The confiscation caused disquiet and it was unclear if the items would be returned.

Removal of such items is common for Chinese journalists covering protests or other "undesirable" activities but it is the first time it has happened at an Olympics.

Earlier, at a small protest in Tiananmen Square by pro-Tibet American Christians, reporters were manhandled by police who tried to take away their microphones and notebooks.

A Beijing Olympic spokesman, Sun Weide, said he did not know about the notebooks being confiscated at the press conference nor about the differing standards being applied to Western and Chinese journalists. "I am not very clear about the situation you raised. For Chinese journalists they very much enjoy the rights to cover the Beijing Olympic Games."

A public relations firm acting for the organisers said initial inquiries into the volleyball conference indicated the confiscation "simply did not take place".

Local coverage of the murder has centred on the death of "an American tourist" without mentioning that the victim, Todd Bachman, and his seriously injured wife, Barbara, were there to support the US volleyball team.

A Herald internet report yesterday quoting the Australian chef de mission, John Coates, ordering Australian athletes to wear team gear away from the site to distinguish them from American contestants was blocked until an international wire service released the story.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Originally posted by: uhohs
this topic is relevant to my interests

Underage Asian girls?

uhohs=pedos???

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: DomS
nope...there's a picture of her in the link. Just an ordinary kiddo.

The only pic I see at the link is the one of the cute girl, not the ugly girl.

there is a arrow for pic #2.


anyway while the first girl is very cute i would have gone with the singer. she has a very pretty voice.


but i can understand why they did it. i don't really have a problem with it.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: herkulease

Originally posted by: sdifox

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

You mean like only China is picked on when hosting the Olympics? Really?

No I mean the media blowing the whole thing out way out of proportion like as if it is a major conspiracy going on.

this story is the headline on cnn.com, I don't have access to a tv but I'm willing to bet they are probably running stories about it on television too.

I'm sure the press can dig into better stories to make china look bad like the ages of some of the gymnast or more stories on how china essentially evicted people to build the villages and venues.

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/gym...th.html#socialcomments

Don't know about CNN.

http://www.nationalpost.com/mo...r/story.html?id=716188

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Wow, another reason to not care for the Olympics. Whooopie.

The Olympics are for third world natiosn that don't have alot in terms of professional sports. They shine in areas where no one in the world cares (like Korea and archery).

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Wow, another reason to not care for the Olympics. Whooopie.

The Olympics are for third world natiosn that don't have alot in terms of professional sports. They shine in areas where no one in the world cares (like Korea and archery).

For someone who doesn't care about the Olympics, you sure like to come in and poop in a thread about the Olympics.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

They should've replaced her with CGI fireworks.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

I think it's hilarious how defensive Chinese people get over all of the attention their shitty country is getting because of the Olympics. With all that is wrong with China, do you think anyone really cares about the cute kid lip-syncing? The American/western press doesn't need to try to find ways to make China look bad; if they wanted to make China look bad, there are plenty of other things they could report.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

you are right. damn them for bringing up a little girl that was shown to be singing as a fake! since the reporters have NOTHING else they can write about!


heh damn .

 

[herkulease]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

I think it's hilarious how defensive Chinese people get over all of the attention their shitty country is getting because of the Olympics. With all that is wrong with China, do you think anyone really cares about the cute kid lip-syncing? The American/western press doesn't need to try to find ways to make China look bad; if they wanted to make China look bad, there are plenty of other things they could report.

I'm not sure if you think I'm chinese and trying defending them. I'm not and I'm vietnamese.

My point is this is at best tiny little blurb. Just like the fireworks. Yet the press latches on to them and makes into a spectacle. Google this story and the fireworks and you'll find hundreds of media outlets having something related to those two. Yet hardly find anything recent about all the other crap they do. like the story queasy linked to.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: herkulease

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

I think it's hilarious how defensive Chinese people get over all of the attention their shitty country is getting because of the Olympics. With all that is wrong with China, do you think anyone really cares about the cute kid lip-syncing? The American/western press doesn't need to try to find ways to make China look bad; if they wanted to make China look bad, there are plenty of other things they could report.

I'm not sure if you think I'm chinese and trying defending them. I'm not and I'm vietnamese.

My point is this is at best tiny little blurb. Just like the fireworks. Yet the press latches on to them and makes into a spectacle. Google this story and the fireworks and you'll find hundreds of media outlets having something related to those two. Yet hardly find anything recent about all the other crap they do. like the story queasy linked to.

Well, journalism is dead, all "news" is just retell something someone else found.

 

[FlashG]

Dosen't the entertainment industry do this all the time? Next time they should use Milli Vanilli.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: herkulease

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: herkulease
I find it pathetic at what looks to be the American press(maybe western press) trying to find ways to make the Chinese look bad. First the whole "fake" fireworks story. Bob Costas and Matt Laurer even said it on TV it was cinematic. The reasons they were prerecorded and added in were legitimate. Now we get this. Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid, but lets me honest here. how many actors/actresses are given better roles because they have a pretty face,slimmer looking, etc? People need to just get over it. The Chinese went all out to put on a show that will make it extremely hard for Vancouver and London, or anyone else to outdo.

I think it's hilarious how defensive Chinese people get over all of the attention their shitty country is getting because of the Olympics. With all that is wrong with China, do you think anyone really cares about the cute kid lip-syncing? The American/western press doesn't need to try to find ways to make China look bad; if they wanted to make China look bad, there are plenty of other things they could report.

I'm not sure if you think I'm chinese and trying defending them. I'm not and I'm vietnamese.

My point is this is at best tiny little blurb. Just like the fireworks. Yet the press latches on to them and makes into a spectacle. Google this story and the fireworks and you'll find hundreds of media outlets having something related to those two. Yet hardly find anything recent about all the other crap they do. like the story queasy linked to.

My mistake, when you said "we" I thought you were indicating that you were Chinese, but after re-reading it I can see that you were speaking in the voice of the Chinese people who made the decision when you said, "Sure it mean to say we picked the cuter kid." Punctuation helps. But you don't have to look far (on these forums and elsewhere) to find Chinese people getting defensive.

You see this story all over every media outlet because of news agencies like the AP and Reuters. They write an article and it's reprinted ad infinitum. This is NOT the focus of the American media though, not by a long shot. I was at home yesterday and had the Olympic coverage from various NBC channels on pretty much all day. I didn't hear about the fireworks once. I saw dozens of clips of President Bush smaking Misty May on the back, I saw dozens of replays of the 4x100 freestyle relay ending, I saw a few clips about Kerri Walsh's wedding ring being lost in the sand and being found with a metal detector, and I saw a bunch of other feel-good stories about various American and Chinese athletes. I didn't hear anything about the fireworks, and I doubt I'll hear anything about the lip-syncing when I watch tonight. There was some mention about the stabbing, but mostly in the context of discussing the volleyball teams.