{"id":18745,"date":"2012-02-07T21:46:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/?p=11945"},"modified":"2012-02-07T21:46:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T13:46:15","slug":"the-pete-hoekstra-china-ad-what-did-you-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2012\/02\/07\/the-pete-hoekstra-china-ad-what-did-you-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pete Hoekstra China Ad: What Did You Expect?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen the racist China bashing ad that Republican Pete Hoekstra ran during the Superbowl, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/kxw4uZAezaI\">here you go<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kxw4uZAezaI?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kxw4uZAezaI?version=3&amp;feature=player_detailpage\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The ad doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense, but since it&#8217;s a big topic of discussion within the US-China set at the moment, I figured I&#8217;d get it out there for your consideration (or amusement, anger, frustration, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>Hoekstra is running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, a state where unemployment and China bashing go hand in hand. Add that to the Republican predilection towards racism, and really, the ad should not have caught anyone off guard.<\/p>\n<p>I know, I&#8217;m not being fair. Not all Republicans are racists like Pete Hoekstra. But as I believe Bill Maher put it, if you do happen to be a racist in America, you&#8217;re probably a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a flurry of outrage over this, certainly more attention than it deserves, but what the hell. The latest &#8220;news&#8221; is that the image of the girl in the ad was labeled &#8220;Yellow Girl.&#8221; No, seriously.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they paid that girl well. She may end up needing psychotherapy before this is over.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><small>\u00a9 Stan for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\">China Hearsay<\/a>, 2012. |\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/the-pete-hoekstra-china-ad-what-did-you-expect\/\">Permalink<\/a> |\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/the-pete-hoekstra-china-ad-what-did-you-expect\/#comments\">No comment<\/a> |\nAdd to\n<a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/post?url=http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/the-pete-hoekstra-china-ad-what-did-you-expect\/&title=The%20Pete%20Hoekstra%20China%20Ad:%20What%20Did%20You%20Expect?\">del.icio.us<\/a>\n<br\/>\nPost tags: <br\/>\n<\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven't seen the racist China bashing ad that Republican Pete Hoekstra ran during the Superbowl, here you go. The ad doesn't make a lot of sense, but since it's a big topic of discussion within the US-China set at the moment, I figured I'd get it out there for your consideration (or amusement, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3542],"class_list":["post-18745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law","tag-short-takes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}