Thirty-four years ago this weekend, China’s communist dictators sent tanks into Tiananmen Square to end seven weeks of student-led protests pushing for democratic reforms. Secret cables sent at the time from Beijing by the British ambassador put the death toll at “at least 10,000.”

Even after such a repugnant display of brutality, some liberal journalists absurdly compared the event to American transgressions. “Will the military leaders there [in China] be embarrassed by this, will this be something like Kent State was for our military?” CBS reporter Eric Engberg wondered three days after the massacre, as if the Red Army and their communist masters would experience remorse for the lives lost.

“Thousands may have been gunned down in Beijing, but what about the millions of American kids whose lives are being ruined by an enormous failure of the country’s educational system,” former NBC anchor John Chancellor weirdly argued in a “commentary” later that month about a long-forgotten report on middle schools from the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. “We can and we should agonize about the dead students in Beijing, but we’ve got a much bigger problem here at home,” Chancellor declared.

[If their tiny brains think they can dink on the U.S. with “whataboutisms” they’ll take the shot, hell or high water. ~ Beege]