Steven Spielberg just can't win.


Monday, February 18, 2008

spielbergolympicmock.jpgSteven Spielberg just can't win. He had to quit his position as an"artistic consultant" to the Beijing Olympics after being "assailed" by angry activists who are protesting the games because China hasn't done anything to get their friends in the Sudanese government to stop all the killing going on in Darfur. Now, the famed director's persona non grata with the more than one billion citizens of China and he's being made fun of on the internet and in the pages of Chinese newspapers. A recent editorial in the China Youth Daily said the famed director "is completely living in his sci-fi world and cannot distinguish dream from reality" and the Xinhua news agency reports that "thousands of angry Chinese ganged up against him on Internet forums" since he announced his withdrawal from the Olympics last week. [Breitbart]


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