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http://www.examiner.com/conservative...ult-to-america

White House claims anti-American propaganda tune not an insult to America

January 24th, 2011 10:35 pm PT

When is an insult not an insult?

Last Wednesday, Chinese pianist Lang Lang played a Chinese tune that has been used as part of anti-American propaganda for years by the Communist Chinese.

But according to ABC News, the White House denied the song was an insult to America. Spokesman Tommy Vietor said that:

"...any suggestion that this was an insult to the United States is just flat wrong. As Lang Lang has stated before, he plays this song regularly because it is one of his favorite Chinese melodies, which is very widely known and popular in China for its melody. Lang Lang played the song without lyrics or reference to any political themes during the entertainment portion of the State Dinner. He simply stated the song’s title and noted it was well known in China.”

Well known in China, primarily because it is a song celebrating a communist military victory over the United States.

As reported by the Epoch Times, many in China understood the song was intended as an insult to America, and expressed those very beliefs in various online sites.

According to a Wall Street Journal blog, Lang explained, "I selected this song because it has been a favorite of mine since I was a child. It was selected for no other reason but for the beauty of its melody.”

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The far right really went on a fishing expedition to try and turn this into a controversy. The song in question is a song that was part of a 1956 movie soundtrack of a long-forgotten movie that looked at the Korean war from the perspective of Chinese soldiers who, in the fictitious film, won a battle against an American military unit.

Add that up. Movie from over 50 years ago, instrumental tune from a soundtrack to that movie. That would be something like the Chinese getting worked up about a performance of Menry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme because a 1958 episode of the TV series portrayed American spies outsmarting a Chinese gang.

The kid that performed this is a child prodigy who's spent a lot of his young life on tour, not in China. He lives in New York. He's not part of any political movements or discussions. He just lives and breathes music and doesn't know or care about much else.