Yes, I didn’t particularly like how the Olympic organizers gave a young, impressionable girl the idea that beauty is valued over talent. However, this is how show biz works and China certainly isn’t the only country that understands and utilizes basic show biz concepts. At the end of the day, beauty sells, and China was trying to put on a perfect performance.

But, honestly, the media didn’t focus on the girls when they criticized China for making the last minute switch. They made it seem like China was somehow being deceitful for the lip syncing act alone! What country isn’t guilty of doing this?

This also is not the only thing China did before the start of the Olympics, I heard a story about training young kids numerous hours in a day with hardly any breaks… Not very nice if this is true…

Poor thing. I saw both of the girls pictures and I think the original girl would have looked just darling in the red dress.

Anyway, it seems like the media is nitpicking the entire Olympics in an attempt to keep selling newspapers and gaining view on their sites. All kinds of research is going into each of the contestants and reporters are all digging for dirt, like with the Spanish soccer team. Crazy business.

Also, Maggie Gyllenhaal is famous, and her lack of good looks almost ruined The Dark Knight for me..

Anyway, for some reason that I don’t understand, some members of the media are just eager to Chinese people look bad. Wasn’t China recently criticized for how young their female representatives in the gymnastics were?

The United States, for example, are surely happy to say that this is horrible, but they aren’t exactly known for their worshipping of ordinary people and the importance they give to talent and personal quality over physical appearance.