Arianna enjoys wuxia cosplay in her free timeShorter Arianna Huffington:
- I can’t read Chinese, and don’t know anything about Tiananmen, but no one will know if I don’t give a link or translations of ZYJ’s blog. Also, cliched rhetoric is bad if you’re George Bush, but it’s perfectly fine for summarizing China. And maybe Tank Man was someone else, but that would screw up my conclusion that I arrived at without knowing what I’m talking about in the first place.
Shorter Time 100 Editorial Board:
- All bloggers are the same, so let’s just get some known US blogger to review these crazy chicken scratchings. Michelle Malkin’s Asian, isn’t she? Oh, she’s busy? Um,
GreeceLos Angeles is like China, isn’t it? I think Arianna’s been to Koreatown…
‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard, and used regularly by SadlyNo!.
Count yourself lucky (if) you missed her brief run for California governor in 2003 during the recall madness. Different cliches, same style.
But Chris, I want Arianna to write more on China. I can finally join the U.S. snarkosphere.
The whole thing is absurd, and the scary thing is that so many Americans get their China news from Time.
@CLB: For the record, I actually think the China correspondents over at the Time China Blog are pretty good – any of them could have done 10x better than Huffington. They, like, have been here.
I’m assuming the Time 100 issue has a different editorial process than usual, since they seem to draw in another 100 celebrities to write up the bios. Like a cocktail party.