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The rumpus between Era News anchor Catherine Chang and former presenter for a now banned Chinese company and now TMD spokesperson Christina Yang seems to be entertaining the entire country right now.
Who needs to watch professional wrestling when these two are going at it hammer and tongs, although I have to say they don’t even get close to the mark when it comes to proper insults.
Broken flower vase? Your face is not pretty enough to be a flower vase, you are just an empty bottle? Why are you hanging around me to get attention, is it because someone is not even a bottle?
This really is little league stuff when it comes to decent insulting and these two clearly have a lot to learn. Although I have to say Catherine Chang’s come-back to the KMT’s Bai Qiao-yin who clumsily waded into the row was pretty good, when she said she had no recollection of Bai when she interned at Chang’s TV station so she obviously wasn’t a very successful intern.
There are three issues here as far as I can see…
1) If you are a party spokesperson you have to be all sorts of an idiot to publically take on a high profile journalist. It is asking for trouble and you are bound to lose.
2) Mayor Malfunction has hired yet another dud.
3) Public figures in Taiwan really need to work harder on their verbal abuse.
The most recent masterful example of political insult I can think of came from Dominic Cummings the former head of the Brexit Vote Leave campaign who branded the then Brexit Secretary David Davis as being as “thick as mince” and “as lazy as a toad”.
In the 1860s British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli said of rival William Gladstone. “If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune, and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.”
British statesman David Lloyd George said of Winston Churchill. “He would make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises.” While Churchill described Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee as “A sheep in sheep’s clothing.”
At the time, I particularly enjoyed Labour health secretary Frank Dobson on the outspoken Tory MP Edwina Currie that “When Edwina Currie goes to the dentist, he needs the anesthetic.”
More up to date is broadcaster Ian Hislop on Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “People always ask me the same question, they say, ‘Is Boris a very very clever man pretending to be an idiot?’ And I always say, ‘No.‘”
Another that springs to mind is from a former girlfriend of British Conservative Party ‘heavyweight’ politician Nicholas Soames who said of having sex with him as “Like having a large wardrobe fall on top of you with the key still in the lock.”
Which takes us full circle given the row between Catherine Chang and Christina Yang all started with the thinly veiled fat insult aimed at ex-Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Ju, now President of the Control Yuan and Chair of the National Human Rights Commission, that she was a ‘heavyweight’.
Of course, the Brits, and Australians come to that, see most insults as a term of endearment…
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