Just a bit of follow-up on Spielburg’s Olympics protest. Liu Guijin says he couldn’t have resigned because he never worked for the Olympics.

Chinese official said on Thursday he was surprised by Oscar-winning film director Steven Spielberg’s withdrawal as artistic adviser to the 2008 Beijing Olympics because he had never formally taken up the job.

Liu Guijin, China’s special representative on Sudan’s Darfur region, said the Beijing Olympic organising committee had sent Mr. Spielberg a recruitment letter but because he had not signed it by the deadline of May 10 last year “theoretically he was not art[istic] director to the … Beijing Olympic games.”

“It was a great surprise for me that he should have resigned. There is no such question of resignation,” Mr. Liu told reporters during a visit to London.

Sounds a bit like “You can’t fire me, I quit!” to me.

Via National Post