It's a good thing that I was watching Obama's inauguration in a French-owned restaurant with a CNN feed, because China's state television cut off our new commander-in-chief when he mentioned facism and communism in the same sentence. Here's a video of the CCTV broadcast and cutoff. Transcripts of his speech have also been edited in China. Read the lines that the CCP has "harmonized" here: Shanghaiist.
In the above video, the anchorwoman cuts him off and then asks the analyst about what challenges Obama faces as president. According to Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap, CCTV then switched to a rerun of the NFC championship game. I'm sure the NFL welcomed the airtime, but would have preferred its bonus exposure to come in different circumstances.
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