this:

Chinese news reports made no mention Friday of the protester who interrupted President Hu Jintao’s visit with President Bush or a White House announcer flubbing China’s official name. But ordinary Chinese commenting on Web sites accused President Bush of insulting Hu.

“You can see from Bush’s lack of respect for foreign leaders just how lacking he is in class,” said a posting on a bulletin board run by the People’s Daily, the main Communist Party newspaper.

How convenient. The ones that find access to forbidden material just end up getting their pseudo-patriot on, rather than ask why the protestor was such a big deal. If this reflects on the general population there, those filters the chinese government spent so much money on amount to a security blanket.

Wait, it gets worse…

On washeng.net, a Chinese-language Web site hosted overseas, postings accused the White House of intentionally allowing in the protester.

“This was absolutely planned and directed by America. Given America’s anxiety over the war on terror, that person should have been shot otherwise,” said an unsigned comment.

Wow! Invoking the “War on Terror” in calling for action that ignores human rights? That wouldn’t look out of place at all in a Ann Coulter column…

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