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1. During conversations with reporters, he banters and laughs –– laughs so hard at one point he snorts.
2. Worst of all to the Beijing officials who direct China‘s broadcasting, the show was emceed by Li Xiang, an edgy pop music hostess from the provinces who is well known for using Hong Kong and Taiwanese words as she banters with singing stars onstage.
3. He does not brutalize the English language as much (although last week he mangled the name of his ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, pronouncing it Kahl–i–had ). And he banters with audiences in a way he doesn‘t when delivering a conventional speech.
4. But for all his smoothness, Kyle can also be unexpectedly ungallant: as he banters with the audience he takes to task one member for her looks (sideburns that make her look like an "Easter bunny"); another gets a comment on her age ("Past your best aren‘t you?"). But when the red light of the camera comes on, Kyle‘s voice changes: he becomes slick and serious.