Chinese internet meme of the day: party officials head from Huili to the moon

First a contingent of officials in Huili, Sichuan were captured in that staple of the Chinese press: the Photoshopped government inspection photo-in this case the men were supposed to be discussing some presumably important matters on-site at a road construction project.

Only something went awry in the propaganda department. Instead of showing them on site, the picture published has the officials inspecting the road from a vantage point that has their feet well above the ground... as in maybe 8-12 inches above the ground (Xinhua offers a bit of a tortured explanation in Chinese for how this photo came about). I don't think the message of this government PR shoot was supposed to be that people in Huili County can defy gravity.

Taking the theme to heart, netizens on Weibo have been busy Photoshopping the same officials into other scenes. Some examples can be seen below, beginning with the original.

Note the carefully done shadows:

On flood watch:

 

Car Patrol:

Tracking Osama bin Laden:

Landing on the moon:

And couple NSFW pictures (I recognize the photographer in that first one from M1NT)...

 

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