Fork-Tongued in Shanghai

One might be tempted to pen a dark comedy about it. Don't bother. President Barack Obama has just added this latest act to his own peculiar satire, authored by his speechwriters and scripted by professional censors.

In Shanghai, China to bolster relations between China and the U.S., he appeared in a "town hall" that was as thoroughly rigged as his press conferences and other "town hall" meetings in the U.S. He addressed a group of Chinese government-vetted students and answered eight pre-sele...