http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=e3b9c4941f9d849f9358ddb3dbbbe5a3
Oh dammit, it's one of ours.
Yes, I should be focusing on Disney and British broadcasting since those are my term paper topics, but this whole situation has become a major distraction to me.
And may I note, I like this picture:
A lot better than this one:
Although I still find it questionable...are these of the same guy? Are we sure that it's not just some other Asian guy who decided to jump on the media circus and release the video. Cause I mean, as sad as it is to admit, we do all look alike.
Although, now the media has connected that photo with the South Korean movie Old Boy.
But seriously, doesn't the fact that he actually emulated that movie just say more about his psychotic state? I mean, that movie was DISGUSTING. I judge anyone who liked that movie. (That means you people at the Cannes Film Festival where the movie took home the second-place prize.) And note that in Old Boy, the guy doesn't go out and shoot 32 people. He just has sex with his daughter and cuts out his own tongue. So we can't blame Korean films, folks.
Although South Korea has already convicted themselves.
SOUTH KOREA'S COLLECTIVE GUILT
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1611964,00.html
Uhm...you guys? I'd like to point out that the guy spent the two-thirds of his life leading up to this atrocious act OUTSIDE your country and you really have nothing to do with this situation. Please don't be dramatic Koreans and jump out a window because of the shame brought to your country. So Mr. Ambassador Dude, please just eat your kimchi and don't allow the imperialist nation of America to place this blame on you. If any country should apologize for Seung-hui Cho (and no country really should be apologizing for the act of one demented person), shouldn't it be America?
But here's who really is to fault for the events at Virginia Tech: 1. Seung-hui Cho, 2. the psychiatric community that didn't diagnose him properly and allowed this psycho to roam free prescribed on their bullshit medication, 3. the NRA and the government that allowed this freak to buy guns legally, 4. the VT campus police and other law enforcement that didn't respond after the first shooting and even gave Seung-hui the time to make a video before the next mass shooting.
No where in this list is South Korea, the Korean film industry or even those rich, spoiled Americans that Seung-hui himself blames for his actions.
I'm still waiting for them to somehow connect Seung-hui Cho to Kim Jong-il and North Korea. Com'on, American media! You can do it! I mean, they figured out a way to use 9-11 to declare war on Afghanistan.
Also, I stand corrected on the name situation. Apparently, the guy's name is Cho Seung Hui or 조승회. Although "Sueng-ho" was the name on the little fishie on his dorm room door. And I love the CBS reporter who takes the time to pronounce his name "Jo Seung Hweh" in that "Soo Chin Pak" way, further foreignizing him. Why couldn't this guy's name be Bob or something. I'd love to see them foreignize that.
Another thought...how come school killers are always boys? How come girls don't get crazy on antidepression medication and go out and shoot their classmates in cold blood? Doesn't this just prove the fact that we are the better sex?
Okay, now back to my term papers, although the stress of these deadlines are making me want to grab a hammer and....or is that joke not funny yet?
NOTE: I would not want to take away from the victims of Seung-hui Cho or their families. I, appropriately since I am part of the Korean-American community and a passport-carrying American, apologize for the part our society has played in the missocialization of Seung-hui Cho and am extremely sorry for their loss. HOWEVER, this media circus just infuriates me because it's part of a deeper and more dangerous problem with America. And to the FBI or CIA that's probably been watching me for awhile now under the guise of the PATRIOT Act, I am not going to kill anyone under the stress of term papers because the UK, unlike America, is smart enough to not sell guns to crazy people.
3 comments:
haha omg i don't even know where to start! i love loved love this entry! here are the top 5 reasons why (edit: i think i got carried away and added a bonus one)
1. the mug/glamour shot side by side. you have to give that silly little freak credit for submitting his own pre-approved press packet to NBC. i mean if you're gonna be plastered all over the news, kudos for choosing your own "default pic".
2. hahaha i love the image i get of "mr. ambassador dude" calculating how much damage and shame that little shit caused "our people" while shuffling away on an abacus. and i know that's a chinese reference but it brings me to another point: how much backpatting and snooty smirking do you think would errupt if somehow they announced CHO was actually CHU and a china man?
3. SOO CHIN PAK haha! seriously though, even i don't know how to say the boy's name (unless i turn on my computer, radio, tv and see/hear it). no wonder why people ignored him-not only does his face/voice hurt my feelings, his name was utterly forgettable.
i guess i could just be patriotic and lump all asians together and call him Soo Chin Pak.
4. "9-11 to declare war on Afghanistan. "...huh, what war? p.s. suri cruise turned one!
5. "How come girls don't get crazy on antidepression medication"....they do, read: britney spears (n.) syn: anna nicole smith
6. "Okay, now back to my term papers, although the stress of these deadlines are making me want to grab a hammer and....or is that joke not funny yet? "
hahahah seriously..hammers are like the new "falangi" on a plane. on the upside, i think we're allowed to reinstate "nappy headed hoes" back into our everyday vocabulary, so on that note
PEACE OUT YA NAPPYHEADEDHOE! XOXOXO!
little sis
5 stars, excellent post!
i'm so glad you enjoyed my politically incorrect post, dear sister. and i'm so glad you decided to add even more politically incorrect comments to it. oh GOD, our family's being profiled by the CIA right now.
but anyhow, one of my friends made this awesome point of "why NBC?" of all the fucked up media networks in the US, why NBC? it makes you think...if i was at the news division of fox right now...i'd think, hey we need to start advertising ourselves to homocidal psychos other than bush.
also, i'd like to point out that girls are still better than boys, not only because they gave cooties but because at least when girls get all hopped up on psychiatric meds, they just forget to wear panties and make hilarious sex tapes. not go out and shoot their classmates...although, i guess, if britney spears got into college, her classmates would probably just shoot themselves.
love you sis. we should be on TV. maybe if some asian girl would just DO something, they'd fix our pictures up with hers and we'd be famous too!
hahaha what kind of fucked up childhood experiences did we go through...
that is pretty effin brilliant though...nbc's ratings are at an all time high. which station do you want to buy stock in/form an alliance with before we consult/co-conspire with jason?
-signed anonymous
p.s. let this be a warning to alec baldwin, this is what happens when you yell at your kids!
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