Did Lang Lang just Sucker Punch the President?

Loyal listeners, you just can't make this stuff up! At last week's State Dinner for China's President Hu Jintan, part of the entertainment was provided by Chinese-born pianist, Lang Lang. (I don't know Mr. Lang Lang; apparently he's about half as well known as Cher).

Nonetheless, I do know a good bit about great affairs of State; they are choreographed down to the split second, where each dignitary stands, and most absolutely, the content of the program down to the last syllable and musical note.

Accordingly, irrespective of whatever Mr. Lang Lang did or did not know regarding the lyrics of his piano selection, "My Motherland", it stretches credulity beyond the breaking point to believe that the Chinese delegation did not know that this theme song, from a virulently anti-American 1956 Chinese movie about the mass killing of American soldiers during the Korean War, was an irredeemable affront to the Nation - "but if the Jackal (Americans) comes/what greets it is the hunting rifle". Guess the ChiComs didn't get the memo. about cessation of the martial references.

What is even more alarming is that this Administration is: either the most incompetent in history because it did not ascertain in advance the source of Lang Lang's egregiously offensive choice, or knowing its provenance, allowed it to be played anyway. Too stupid to govern or too gutless to defend America, I'm not sure which is the actual explanation; neither one is particularly reassuring as to our future. My response? I'm getting my granddaughter chinese language lessons. Just saying ... in english, for now only.