Softball question to a sitting member of the House of Representatives from a Voice of America (VOA) China interviewer:
“So Chinese New Year is just around the corner; is there any message you want to say to our audience in China?”
Answer from Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-Putin’s Concubine):
“Well let me just note … uh … this is coming into the year of the dog. Now, there are people in the United States that don’t like that Chinese people eat dog. And I want them, Chinese people, to know that we eat bunnies over here and we eat all kinds of little animals. I don’t blame them for eating dog; if that’s what tastes good, that’s what tastes good.
“We should make sure that we reach out to the Chinese people so they understand us and we understand them, and we don’t attack their ways, they don’t attack our ways. But, in fact, I believe that the Chinese people are America’s and the world’s greatest ally in seeking a peaceful world, because they don’t want to live under tyranny and they want to live prosperous lives where we can economically interact so everyone’s better, everyone’s lifted up. So let them know in China that many people like myself think of them. We don’t like their government and we think that the Chinese government is a real threat to the future peace in the world. But the Chinese people, we can all be friends and look together for a much better world in the years ahead.”
Lest I be accused of manufacturing fake news, here is video of the interaction:
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.