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BC's Premier Campbell Delights Chinese Media with his Disco Dance Moves.

by Barry ORegan | August 13, 2008 at 05:48 am

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

Boy, I bet British Columbia's Liberal Premier Gordon Campbell didn't see that one coming when Chinese Media, turned the Disco Ball Spotlight on Gordon Campbell.

Firing staccato questions to our 2010 Olympic premier on his failure to address everything from Vancouver's homeless situation to crime.

All the World's a Disco Stage, when one can only imagine the Premier go into instant "Saturday Night Fever Mode" when the Premier and his PR wonks took turns bedazzling and gyrating under the questions from Chinese media, who one can only assume have had their country under the World spotlight on every conceivable embarrassing issue.

Nice to see Gordo Campbell back in fine form doing some fine "splaining"!

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=c6c8fea0-740a-4026-8b03-09b8a3f1389b

Campbell fires back at Chinese critics

Questions about homelessness, rock slide from government newspaper reporters stir response

Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun

Published: Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Premier Gordon Campbell stopped by Beijing's Main Press Centre Tuesday to sell his message about the state-of-the-art media centre the province is building in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Games.

Instead, he found himself in a political discussion with reporters from some of China's government-run media who wanted to use his press conference to focus on problems affecting the Vancouver Olympics.

But the questions seemed to have more to do with political positioning than with eliciting information.

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Uwe Paschen

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at 06:09 on August 13th, 2008

Barry Artiste, I like this story. It's good stuff.

Was he not arrested for drunk driving some time ago?

Barry ORegan

at 06:13 on August 13th, 2008

Thanks Paschen, yes he was, but apparently his Disco Dance Moves sans Chunky White Disco Shoes, didn't impress the Hawaiian Police, who threw him in the slammer.

Uwe Paschen

at 06:15 on August 13th, 2008

Well they should have kept him there!

eastvanray

at 09:13 on August 13th, 2008

I think you are both missing the real point here. The Chinese GOVERNMENT media was simply doing whatever their Politbureau masters told them to do to try to defract attention away from the fact that China is a brutal communist dictatorship. The problems that Vancouver may have pale in comparison to the sins committed daily by this iron-fisted totalitarian regime. Our Premier may be a convicted impared driver but at least he is not a cold blooded murderer. If you don't like Gordon Campbell you can vote for someone else; the Chinese do not have that option. If you dissent in China go get locked up.....if you are lucky.

Barry ORegan

at 15:24 on August 13th, 2008

I think Paschen was using tongue in cheek humour there, certainly no comparison between Campbell and the Chinese President, but I find it funny with all the atrocities the Chinese government have inflicted on their people, that all of a sudden they get all moral and start finger pointing at Campbell. Certainly a farce, and to think Campbell would not say to them Hey! Commie, look in the mirror~! He should have told them what you just stated EastVan, imagine the world reaction to that, if he did! He may even get re elected for telling it like it is with them. I guess the three of us are not that diplomatic when it comes to speaking our minds to the obvious, but then we are not policitans thank god.