Not all women go for Ma Ying-jeou

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It's usually the reporters that make other people cry. Recall, for example, the way the media attacks people like Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) wife Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), or their daughter Chen Hsing-yu (陳幸妤). Those kinds of attacks, by their very nature, come from pan-blue media.

A female reporter from SET (三立新聞) got all teary-eyed recently after she asked Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) this simple question: "Someone has said that these legislators accompanying you on your 'long stay' tour have 'kidnapped' you. How do you feel about this?" Before responding, Ma checked out the logo on her microphone and noted that she was with SET, a station closer to the pan-greens. He snarkily responded (without actually answering the simple question), "Oh, SET! Only your station would ask this kind of a question."

Well, Mr. Gonna-lose-in-2008, *that* is a lie.

The question the SET reporter asked was based on a report in the rotten Apple Daily newspaper (蘋果日報), and in fact, a reporter from Era News (年代新聞) -- a *very* pan-blue TV station -- had asked the same question. At that time, Ma didn't answer the question, but said as he walked quickly away smirking, "That was SET that just asked that question, wasn't it?"

Apparently, it's only acceptable to Ma to be asked questions which make him happy.

While the reporter's tears may seem a bit over the top, this case was merely the straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. This wasn't the first or only attack against pan-green media by Ma during this "long stay" tour.

When handing out snacks to the reporters on the tour, he placed special emphasis on the fact that he hadn't excluded Liberty Times or SET -- even though he was obviously acting as if he *had* left them out. This caused all the other (pan-blue media) reporters to laugh. (This sort of behavior among the media workers may have contributed something to the cause of the tears.) Another day when Ma had a cough, the same female SET reporter asked him how he was feeling. Despite having answered similar questions from other (pan-blue media) reporters, Ma very sarcastically told the SET reporter to "Thank [her] boss for his concern" and that he was "very touched."

There's even more. As you will see in the video, Ma repeatedly mocked the SET reporters, both female and male, for asking him questions. After putting out a statement making a half-assed "apology" which claimed that SET's reporting had been repeatedly "unfair" towards he-who-wants-to-be-emperor, Ma's spokesman Lo Chih-chiang (羅志強) said that "even" DPP member Hung Chi-chang (洪奇昌) called SET "fascist media." Hung, I should point out, is one of the "11 bandits" (11寇) which are the Taiwanese counterparts of Joe Lieberman. That is to say, if Hung says such things about supporters of the DPP and is used by the opposition to smear the same supporters, Hung doesn't belong in the DPP!

A spokesperson for the Association of Taiwan Journalists (台灣記者協會) likened Ma's behavior to that of the KMT under martial law. Instead of answering a simple question which is hardly "unfair," he tried to make the reporter look bad.

On the July 25, 2007 edition of SET's "Talking Show" (大話新聞), footage was shown of the China Times' [中國時報] Washington correspondent Fu Chien-chung (傅建中, AKA Norman Fu) asking DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh [謝長廷] a question, then telling him he could only answer "Yes" or "No." How "fair" is that? How fair is it that *most* of the media outlets in Taiwan are pan-blue controlled? WTF is Ma Ying-jeou calling "unfair"?)

FURTHER READING
See the original Georgie Porgie:
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/georgie_porgie.htm

The Levitator posted some takedowns of the false impressions created by Norman Fu's disingenuous writing:
http://tinyurl.com/22e2eo

See Ma making someone else cry:
http://tinyurl.com/3dl38m

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News & Politics

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• Ma_Ying-jeou
• 馬英九
• SET
• 三立新聞
• Apple_Daily
• 蘋果日報
• Era_News
• 年代新聞
• long_stay
• 下鄉長住
• ATJ
• Association
• of_Taiwan_Journalists
• 台灣記者協會

[BrandenburgConcerti]

hahahahahahahaha

This reminds me of Bill Clinton's interview with Fox News. Clinton was not that "sensitive" to conservative news media, so Ma's behavior is quite understandable.

[TimMaddog]

Did you read the whole description? A pan-blue reporter (i.e., on Ma's side) asked the question first. The SET reporter didn't try to distort anything the way FOX's did.

Can you spot the difference?

[nanokiero]

The reporter "crying" seems a tad over the top. This seems like yet another smear campaign by the Pan Greens against the KMT. Rather than running smear campaigns, why don't you guys do a better job in office instead o_O.

[TimMaddog]

Did you read my description where I said "While the reporter's tears may seem a bit over the top"? Ma is being "smeared" with his own words, so your whining seems to be "a tad over the top," as does Ma's spokesman backhandedly calling SET "fascist media" for asking a simple question.

Recall the UDN "reporter" who didn't just ask questions? tinyurlDOTcom/3cwr2q

Would it also be a "smear" if I pointed out your suggestion to beat kids with "a 2x4" in comments elsewhere? tinyurlDOTcom/yodha5

[TimMaddog]

Non-Mandarin/non-Taiwanese speakers, be sure to read the lengthy English description of this video by clicking the "(more)" link to the right of the video.

[huipingaltizer]

馬英九是外省權貴出身，

不管他下鄉要如何親近台灣人，

台灣人永遠認為他是中國人，

台灣選總統應該要選台灣人，

不是中國人！

[rockpin18]

馬英九心機重拉...

[mandy82008200]

九劉政府 外加老蕭

擴大內需 全民更虛

苦民所苦 全民更苦

水電雙漲 全民悽慘

節能減碳 人民燒碳

肥料也漲 農民也慘

擴大西進 工廠關廠

[frannyshow123]

每次都是願意道歉好像別人欠他似的.就是不可能直街表示歉意真是­他馬的傲慢. 真是不知恥已經有這麼多媒體護體了還他馬的覺得所有媒體都要跟著­拍馬屁...

[schmidtwangtainan]

馬英九是無能的帥哥.台北人苦8年.每次颱風淹大水.他永遠都沒­事.納莉颱風.淹了幾萬輛的車.幾萬戶的家.他統統沒事情.都是­基層小課長的錯.這種人當總統.真不配.沒擔當的小狗.

[zzztop105]

Ma is a mean bastard. Who said he is polite, curteous? His missing wife.

[kkahmee]

我也有同感