America Chases Imaginary Chinese Boogeyman

This makes my blood boil. Here we are, worried about China. Big economy, destroying the dollar, refusing to buy all of our bonds. Commies. And lots of them. Really they could just start walking around the world and if they get here they can just walk right over us and take over. A billion of them! And they're all stuffed in there now. So naturally any red blooded American would have a concern.

Turns out, there's nothing to worry about. They don't have an army or an air force, they just show everybody a clip from "Top Gun" and then they go back to doing whatever they're doing. They are a paper tiger! They get us crazy by acting all Chinese and now look. It turns out that even our ACTORS could probably take out their whole freakin' military.

You know, if we sent a great big PICTURE of Tom Cruise over to China I bet half the country would take off. A photo of Charlton Heston or Henry Fonda would be the equivalent of an atom bomb!

“Top Gun,” the famed 1980s Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer film about jet fighter pilots, was the source of news footage used by Chinese state-run CCTV recently, according to reports this weekend.

A Wall Street Journal blog posted a video that compared scenes from the Tony Scott-directed film and CCTV footage from a news feature about a Chinese air force training exercise. The jet explosions in both pieces of footage look exactly the same—down to the smoke, fire, and debris flying out from the explosion. There are other striking similarities as well.

The Jan. 23 CCTV film faux pas was first spotted by a Chinese user named “Liu Yi” on the Ministry of Tofu blog.

The user pointed out that "the jet that the [Chinese] J-10 ‘hit’ is an F-5, a U.S. fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5.”

The Journal reported that CCTV has since removed the clip from their website.

A person familiar with CCTV told the BBC that this hasn’t been the first time that the state-run television broadcaster used movie footage in a news report.

"There are other cases of the deliberate use of inappropriate footage," the source, who was not named, told the British news agency. He said that it was sometimes due to laziness or lack of footage.

[Epoch Times]