His criticism of the United States in this way is very hurtful and insulting

Because of a performance of "reading the wrong script", the famous American stand-up comedian Lee Kemp became popular in China.

In April 2021, in a program, Kemp first "shakes the baggage" and "severely criticizes" China on issues such as the new crown epidemic, racial discrimination and human rights. After that, the plot suddenly reversed, and he found that he "took the wrong manuscript for talking about the United States"... Behind the embarrassment of the capitalization is his extreme ridicule of the anti-China propaganda of the US media, targeting US politicians.

This explosive performance made Chinese netizens know the witty and humorous Kemp.

On March 23, Kemp was invited to Beijing to participate in the second international forum "Democracy: Common Values for All Mankind", and discussed the truth of democracy with more than 300 guests from more than 100 countries and regions.

When the Global People reporter met Kemp, he still had his trademark long hair, quick thinking, fast speech, and occasionally contributed a meme unique to stand-up comedians. When it came to the issue of democracy and human rights in the United States, he was instantly "ignited" and his tone was irritated. "What kind of democracy and human rights are preached everywhere in the United States? Just look at me. ”

Kemp himself is a true example of "American-style democracy and human rights." He was "blocked" by the mainstream media in the United States because he spit on topics such as US media ecology, racial discrimination, epidemic handling and foreign sanctions in the program, and then was forced to lay off.

Iraq War 'Like a Sweater Off the Thread'

Kemp previously hosted a show called "Edit Tonight" on Russia Today TV America, expressing his views through humorous irony.

In that performance of "taking the wrong script", at the beginning, he seriously "imitated" the appearance of the mainstream American media criticizing China. As a result, soon he was "slapped in the face".

"China has killed more than 500,000 people from COVID and doesn't provide health insurance... Ah, excuse me, this is the United States. ”

"Bombing other countries, life is ruined, China is simply an 'outlier'... Wait, this is also the United States. ”

"With the world's largest 'prison state,' with more than 2 million people a year, oh, this is still the United States..."

"Connotation" of the United States he also has a set.

In another episode, he detailed the reasons why China has "disappointed" other industrial countries: "China has not fought a war for more than 40 years, has never had regime change, nor has it destabilized other countries, and does not use unilateral sanctions as a form of economic bullying." "Sentence and sentence poke at the pain point of the United States.

Kemp himself has a great sense of humor and has been exposed to stand-up comedy since college. Slowly, he tried to add a little "material" to the script, no longer just for parents, but began to relate to people's livelihood and national affairs. "Being able to express an opinion in a humorous form is cool in itself." Kemp said.

More importantly, a sense of humor can sometimes serve unexpected purposes.

"When a person agrees with something, he hears someone who has a different point of view, and he unconsciously wants to walk away and build a wall in his thinking." Kemp says a sense of humor can break down this barrier, "using paragraphs to make a point, while not necessarily changing people's minds, at least make people listen for a while." ”

When the United States launched the Iraq War in 2003, Kemp completely "woke up".

"I began to reflect, what has the United States really brought to the international community? Shells, endless wars, destroyed Baghdad, and tens of thousands of innocent people who died. Kemp said.

"It's like a sweater taking off a thread, and I pull that thread and tear the sweater apart little by little." Starting with the "thread" of the Iraq War, the values that Camp had cultivated in school completely collapsed.

In 2008, Fox News invited Kemp to the live broadcast room to talk about the US election. As soon as the microphone was handed to Kemp, he sent out a soul torture: "I want to ask the host a question, what is Fox News, is it propaganda guerrillas, or is it a carnival of ignorant people?" It's ironic that 1 million people are dying in Iraq when we're talking about the U.S. election! ”

As much as the mainstream media hates Kemp, the fans love him.

He toured the world in talk shows, bold views, natural typhoons, and "baggage" so much that the audience was overwhelmed. His online podcast series Clear Moment is watched by millions. On American social media, he has more than a million followers.

Comedy master George Carlin is the originator of American satirical comedy. With characteristic black humor, he expresses his views in politics, language, psychology, etc. Carlin's comedy album has won him four Grammy Awards. After Carlin's death in 2008, he was also posthumously awarded the Mark Twain Award for contributions to the American talk show industry.

Carlin's daughter Kelly said: "Kemp was one of the few stand-up comedians to have his father's torch rekindled. ”

Camp's heat "spread" to China. In April 2022, a Chinese fan took the initiative to contact Kemp to add Chinese subtitles to his talk show video so that more Chinese netizens could see his views. Kemp readily agreed and became an UP master on station B. In less than half a year, he gained more than 30,000 fans on Station B, with a total of one million views.

"They wanted me to stop talking"

While Kemp became popular, he also became a "thorn in the side" of the mainstream media in the United States. In 2017, The New York Times, quoting interviewees, defined Kemp as a "puppet," calling his comedy "part of the Russian media's false propaganda."

In 2022, after the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the "public opinion war" in the United States has frequently appeared. Major social platforms joined forces to ban Russian media, and a large number of Russian media employees in the United States were laid off. The US channel of Kemp's "Russia Today" television station was forced to shut down and "permanently lay off its workforce."

Kemp is unemployed, but that's not the worst.

"The hundreds of episodes he recorded on Edit Tonight, which took eight years, were removed and banned worldwide overnight by YouTube because they belonged to Russian media." Chinese English-language host Li Jingjing fought for Kemp online.

Kemp has previously said publicly that as an American, while working for the Russian media, he represents U.S. interests because he wants his country to be better. Ironically, his country does not tolerate the media he works in.

"They just want me to stop talking, so I don't have a channel to speak." Kemp told reporters, "A wave of censorship spreading in the United States is terrible. ”

The U.S. has a wonderful media system that doesn't seem to be "state-run" and seems free to express their opinions, but in reality, whether it's CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC, the U.S. ruling class will only say what they need to say, and will never question capitalism.

The latest evidence comes from Seymour Hersh.

Regarded by Camp as America's best investigative journalist, he recently revealed how the United States joined forces with other countries to blow up the Nord Stream pipeline. "Look at how the American media reports Seymour Hersh? The answer is, almost all silence. ”

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Iraq War, and when asked how the mainstream media in the United States reported this node, Kemp said helplessly:

"Most of the media admit that their reports were misleading, but that's all, it's just a mistake in what they call it. This problem, which should have been faced on the first day of the war, was clearly visible to me, at least an ordinary person, and it took the media 5, 10, or even 20 years to admit their mistakes. ”

In such a media atmosphere, Kemp is seen as an "outlier". His programs focused on anti-war and poverty-and-environmental issues, all of which were "the least willing to tell the truth" by the mainstream American media.

In the face of repression, Kemp said that he can only "be like water" and stretch as he pleases.

After The Tonight Editor was shut down, he launched another show, "The Most Censored News," on a website, continuing the content and style of the previous one.

"The United States is afraid of a multipolar world"

"The United States often points fingers around the world and blames other countries for various human rights problems, but in fact, the so-called human rights reports are all lies." In Kemp's view, human rights have become a political tool for the United States to pursue its own strategic interests, "As long as it is a country it is not comfortable with or a competitor, human rights are in question." ”

In one episode, talking about the "Xinjiang labor" issue, which had previously been hyped by the US media, Kemp said that because he was curious about the source of these reports, he did very in-depth research, and the results were surprising.

"The sources are single, starting with the Workers' Rights Alliance (WRC), a propaganda arm created by the CIA, and the Australian Institute for Political Strategy (ASPI), a right-wing agency dedicated to smearing and vilifying China, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the Australian Department of Defence and several arms manufacturers."

There's not a single source that isn't backed by the U.S. government or the CIA, "Sounds fair, right?" Kemp taunted.

Kemp observed that the direction of U.S. media coverage of China has taken a 180-degree turn in the past five or six years.

"Until about five years ago, China was not their allies, but at least they were called 'business partners'. But in the past five years, the US media has reported on China very scary and negative, and they are giving Americans the illusion that the Chinese threat is everywhere. The 'balloon incident' is an example of this, and many Americans have been seduced. ”

"At the end of the day, the United States is too afraid of a multipolar world and doesn't want to lose control." Kemp said that the strength of US hegemony comes from the so-called "petrodollar" (oil is denominated and settled in dollars in the international market), and once the oil cannot be sold, or it is no longer settled in dollars, the dollar will collapse, and "regardless of the rise of the renminbi or the ruble, it is regarded as a threat." ”

Therefore, Kemp said, in order to preserve their wealth and power, the US power class continues to incite other countries to participate in war, the so-called "proxy war", in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, and even the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the same routine.

As an American who constantly exposes America's shortcomings, Kemp admits that he may be "misunderstood" by some people, "but if you want this country to be better, you should expose the truth."

Maybe one day new shows will be shut down, but Kemp says he can continue to write columns, podcasts, and books, and never stop telling the truth. "If I can make people know the truth more efficiently, instead of just listening to the mainstream American media that is full of lies, even if there are only a dozen viewers left, I will stick to it."

Author: Chen Jiali

Editor: Su Rui

Director system: Lv Hong

Executive Producer: Zhang Jiankui

Editor-in-chief: Xu Chenjing

Editor: Ling Yun

(Source: Global People magazine)

Source: People's Network