Dissident at the Doorstep Episode 1: Batman Gets Punched

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Crooked Media

Politics, News

4.8 • 24.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s 2011. Hollywood A-lister Christian Bale is in China and gets punched in the face by security guards for trying to visit Chen Guangcheng, a local human rights activist under house arrest. It’s all captured by a CNN crew and broadcast across the world. A few months later Guangcheng would escape to the United States. But after you arrive in America as a hero, what happens next?

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0:00.0	Oh, well okay well that's easy. You're a genius. Thank you.
0:05.0	You're fantastic. Thank you.
0:08.0	Hello.
0:10.0	Hi Stan here, How you going?
0:13.0	Hi Stan, this is Colin.
0:15.0	Hi Colin.
0:17.0	And Allison from Brooklyn.
0:19.0	Hi.
0:20.0	Hey, how are you going?
0:22.0	I'm Allison Klayman.
0:23.9	That's my husband, Colin Jones.
0:26.5	Recently we called up Stan Grant,
0:28.8	one of Australia's most respected and awarded journalists.
0:32.6	We wanted to talk to him about an unusual phone call
0:35.5	he got back in December 2011.
0:38.3	So then tell us about the Hollywood star.
0:41.6	As a CNN correspondent in Beijing, Stan got a lot of calls, but not from celebrities.
0:48.0	That's why this particular request was so surprising.
0:52.0	Christian Bale, the world would know as Batman, he got in contact with us and called our Bureau and said,
1:01.0	look, I've seen your story on Cheng Guangchang and I'd like to try to get to meet
1:06.7	the man.
1:07.7	Christian was in China for the premiere of a new film and he was asking Stan to take him to a tiny village in Shandong
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