Taiwan's pan-blue opposition parties are up to their disgusting tricks in full force once again. All day Monday and Tuesday, local news has been reporting an ad placed in the Washington, DC newspaper Roll Call calling Taiwan's president Chen Shui-bian "Taiwan's Hitler." This is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The pan-blues are made up of the KMT (Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the breakaway-then-realigned PFP (People First Party) chaired respectively by Lien Chan and James Soong, the losing candidates in this year's presidential elections. The KMT came to Taiwan with the former dictator Chiang Kai-shek. James Soong is the former Minister of Information responsible for supressing the use of local languages in Taiwan during Taiwan's "White Terror" period. If anyone could be compared to a dictator, it would be these guys.

If Chen Shui-bian were a dictator, there never would have been a recount. People like Sisy Chen, Jaw Shaw-kong, and Li Tao -- who criticize Chen all day and night -- wouldn't have their own TV and radio shows. Chiu Yi would be under the jail. And if Chen were "Taiwan's Hitler," all the Chinese nationals in Taiwan would be in concentration camps or dead. The pan-blue supporters who rioted for weeks in front of the Presidential Office after the election would have been mowed down with machine guns.

But none of that has happened, and the pan-blues can only resort to fabrication.

Roll Call's executive editor Morton Kondracke has been covered many times by the awesome folks at Media Matters for America for "falling afoul of the facts." It's not surprising that the pan-blues would choose to place their ad in his newspaper.

The pan-blues deny being behind the ad and a parallel e-mail campaign which seems to ignore and even deny both the implied threat of the 500 to 600 Chinese missiles aimed in our direction and the explicit threats toward Taiwan made by China, but it wreaks of the desperate arguments used in the pan-blues' incessant refusal to accept their defeat in the presidential election. PFP legislator Lee Ching-hwa even appeared in the Legislative Yuan yesterday wearing a "No Justice, No President" T-shirt.

It's like déjà vu all over again!
For deeper insight into the depraved minds of the pan-blues, you should read all of the postings on this blog starting with the one following my participation in the February 28, 2004 Hand-in-Hand Rally, then working forward from March 19 (the election eve assassination attempt on Taiwan's president and vice-president) through at least May 20 (inauguration day) -- during which I blogged almost exclusively about issues related to Taiwan -- to see how this blog covered the events in real-time and from a local perspective.

Here's a complete (?) listing, in chronological order, of posts on this blog related to this subject:

Monday, March 01, 2004
* Hand-in-hand for peace
Friday, March 19, 2004
* Assassination attempt on Taiwan's president, vice-president
Saturday, March 20, 2004
* Taiwan's president released from hospital
* Let the lies, damn lies, and statistics begin
* Chen Shui-bian re-elected to Taiwan presidency: Lien Chan loses -- sorely
Sunday, March 21, 2004
* Taiwan's referendum fails: Lien and Soong still behaving like spoiled brats
* Then came the riots
Monday, March 22, 2004
* Crackpot theories
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
* Losers of Taiwan's election demonstrate why they lost: Complete lack of leadership abilities
* Countering more of the Taiwan rumors
* Chen Shui-bian is no "pink tutu" Democrat!
* Cutting off their noses
Thursday, March 25, 2004
* Lien Chan is a crackpot and a fucking liar: Whoever believes him is fucked in the head, too
Friday, March 26, 2004
* Lien Chan parodies self: Downloadable tune lets us laugh at him some more
* More riots in Taiwan
* More developments in the Taiwan riots
Saturday, March 27, 2004
* Tie a yellow ribbon for Taiwan
* Lien Chan's memory less than 24 hours: How else could he say these words without choking on them?
Sunday, March 28, 2004
* Good news for Taiwan?
* Chen Shui-bian offers Lien and Soong "equal opportunity for sympathy": This blog welcomes Sisy Chen to join in the fun
Monday, March 29, 2004
* A recap of recent events in Taiwan
Tuesday, March 30, 2004
* Have you ever seen an "earthworm" cry?
Wednesday, March 31, 2004
* Have you ever seen an earthworm count backwards from ten?
Thursday, April 01, 2004
* Have you ever seen an earthworm box?: Is "box" a noun or a verb?
* Experts conclude Chen Shui-bian was shot: Pan-blues will probably say it's an April Fool's joke
Friday, April 02, 2004
* Would you like fries with that recount?: Another day, another absurd shift in their requests
Saturday, April 03, 2004
* Taiwan's opposition flip-flops again: The crybaby losers must be getting sick of themselves
Sunday, April 04, 2004
* Wu'er Kaixi undergoes lobotomy (or something): Rumor gets started right the fuck here
Monday, April 05, 2004
* About those "Taiwanese" "students" who want "truth" and "democracy"...
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
* Past 2 days' local news recaps most recent posts on this blog
Thursday, April 08, 2004
* Desperados, why don't you come to your senses?: You've been out ridin' fences, for so long now
Friday, April 09, 2004
* Simple logic counters invalid conclusions obtained from false data
* Wu'er Kaixi blinded by "too much" freedom?
Sunday, April 11, 2004
* Another Saturday night of violence in Taiwan's capital: Taiwan's pan-blue supporters bring Elton John classic to life
Monday, April 12, 2004
* Taiwan's pan-greens have had more than their fill: How much more must they endure?
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
* Return of the mother of a son of a bitch: Updating the Shen Chih-hui farce
Friday, April 16, 2004
* They belong in jail, not in political office: Why reasonable people experience frustration
Saturday, April 17, 2004
* You learn something new every day...: Unless you're a pan-blue politician, that is
Monday, April 19, 2004
* A riot-free weekend?: There's a first time for everything
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
* I've got your "ethnic divisiveness" right here!: An anal-retentive analysis
Sunday, April 25, 2004
* Another reason to distrust Beijing: Can you say "cover-up"? (subtopics: How do you keep an "earthworm" in jail?; "Dictators" vs. "truth-seekers"; Jackie Chan not banned by Taiwan)
Friday, April 30, 2004
* A big "Ha ha ha!" to The Journalist: Were their brains eaten by aliens?
Monday, May 03, 2004
* Just how much does "freedom of the press" cover?: Does it include giving airtime to presidential assassination plotters?
Thursday, May 06, 2004
* Pro-China psycho bitches on the loose in Taiwan: Opposition still thinks Chen Shui-bian is a "dictator"
Monday, May 10, 2004
* On your marks, get set, ...: Cry: "Unfair!"
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
* No "major disturbances" in Taiwan's recount: Backstory rife with military-grade acronyms
Sunday, May 16, 2004
* A cornucopia of clouds over Taiwan: Pan-blues are still insatiable power-sluts
Monday, May 17, 2004
* More "clouds" in Taiwan's news: Could it be somebody smoking crack?
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
* Hou You-yi [says] Feng is full of shit!: Taiwan's English-language media should be all over this!
Thursday, May 20, 2004
* "United" only in their divisiveness: Can you say "Napoleon complex"?
Friday, May 21, 2004
* World media kowtows to Beijing, echoes their lies: Bullies play victim
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
* Nonsense and lack of sensibility: Taiwan's opposition and Beijing are two of a kind
Friday, June 11, 2004
* "Mayberry, ROC"?: Taiwan's crybaby loser pan-blues' approval ratings plummet
Thursday, June 17, 2004
* "Earthworm" (and other PFP psycho-bitches) indicted
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
* Birds of a feather (this post)

How's that for in-depth coverage?