When I read today that Morgan Freeman had died, I dived into Google looking for verification from a traditional media source. I’ve come to distrust some virtual sources, which explains why there are so many links in my posts to the sources I quote.
While learning that Morgan Freeman was still alive and it was a Twitter hoax, I discovered that a right-wing political campaign had hijacked his voice during the 2010-midyear elections, which shows how dirty US politics has become.
The New York Daily News reported that Morgan Freeman said, “I didn’t voice GOP attack ad despite campaign’s claims. These people are lying!”
Similar deceit and lies brought us the Iraq and Vietnam Wars.
Then the Travel Maven mentioned Morgan Freeman and sidekick Jack Nicholson zipping along the Great Wall of China on a motorcycle as they followed their Bucket List.
I also discovered that 72-year-old Morgan Freeman divorced his wife of 25 years in 2009 and plans to marry his 27-year-old step-granddaughter. I hadn’t heard that before and I didn’t check any further.
I don’t judge Freeman for his personal life. If Woody Allen can do it, so can Freeman.
Then I ran into Hunter Seeker.com — another Blogger hiding behind a fake name.
Seeker said, “Well you can imagine my surprise when I heard his (Freeman’s) voice in a commercial for Visa who are sponsors of the Beijing Olympic! I was not only shocked but disappointed that he had done the commercial. I would have thought the he of all people would have declined to do it. I guess I was wrong. I guess the only question I can ask is Why?”
Without much evidence, many in the West fall for emotional messages and do not check the facts to learn if China is guilty of all the things it has been accused of.
One comment at Hunter Seeker.com from Karen Byrne is a perfect example. “Does that mean I love China and all the horrible things they do to their population — NO! NO! NO!”
Karen, what horrible things has China done to their population recently? Do you know?
In fact, the government that replaced Mao after he died in 1976 has done nothing horrible to at least 99.9% of China’s huge population.
In fact, China took the 20% literacy rate in 1976 and in the next thirty years raised it higher than 90%.
The new government also improved the nation’s schools and lifted all but 10% of China out of poverty while modernizing the cities, and building more roads, railroads and airports to help the country and the people prosper.
China’s central government has also made deals globally to make sure China’s people do not starve and die again as so many did under Mao during the Great Leap Forward.
I don’t care who Morgan Freeman marries or sleeps with. I don’t care where his Visa commercials air and I believe that China’s current central government is not as guilty as the Western media and American politicians have made it seem for gullible people like Seeker and Karen Byrne.
Learn the facts — Dictatorship Defined
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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