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                                May 20, 2012</h6>
                            
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                                Blind Chinese Dissident Already Sick of Kardashians</h1>
                            
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                                Sisters’ Omnipresence ‘Troubling,’ Says Chen</h2>
                            
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                                NEW YORK (<span style="font-weight:800"><strong><strong><a title="Borowitz Report" href="http://borowitzreport.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=49de3335c30245ecd0fa291aa&id=f0dd2ca317&e=8ba6febced" target="_blank">The Borowitz Report</a></strong></strong></span>)
 - In his first interview since arriving in America, blind Chinese 
activist Chen Guangcheng told reporters today that he is grateful to be 
in the United States but is already “sick of these Kardashians.”<br>
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“Who are they, and what do they do?” Chen asked.  “I have asked these 
questions of many people, and no one will answer me.  It seems to be 
some kind of state secret.”<br>
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After being monitored for years by Chinese authorities, Chen said he finds the omnipresence of the Kardashians “troubling.”<br>
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“It almost feels as though I have traded one kind of tyranny for another,” he said.<br>
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The dissident said that if the Chinese government knew about the outsize
 role the Kardashians played in American life “they’d wonder what sort 
of country they’d bought.”<br>
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Chen said that since he had just arrived in New York he would reserve 
judgment about other aspects of life in the United States, but he did 
leave reporters with one final observation: “This Facebook IPO seems 
like total bullshit to me.”<br>
<br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a><br>