Patricia Schroeder: “Today in China they are celebrating the first day of the lunar new year, the Year of the Pig, and we now find out from…”

“Today in China they are celebrating the first day of the lunar new year, the Year of the Pig, and we now find out from the New Yorker magazine that a big multinational pig is trying to feed over there the same way that pig has been trying to feed on the U.S. Congress. I guess the question is: Is Beijing becoming more like Washington, or Washington becoming more like Beijing? But what we learn today is Deng Xiaoping's daughter, Deng Maomao, also has a book contract with Mr. Murdoch. Mr. Murdoch seems to be wanting to try to get his TV station into China and has pulled all of the BBC news because it has much too much about human rights, which just really, really makes him upset, and has furthermore now cut this wonderful deal with Deng's daughter, who is supposed to be the closest to him, but of course there could not be any hanky-panky there. So, if anyone now asks what is the similarity between our Speaker, Deng Xiaoping's daughter and Mrs. Thatcher, we now know. They all have Rupert Murdoch book deals.”