[C19fan]

NBC's horrid coverage of the Olympics is one of the reason I stopped watching.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I watched part of it. I couldn’t believe when I saw they were pushing global warming as part of the opening ceremonies.

Has liberal political correctness infected absolutely everything nowadays????

[ClearCase_guy]

The best part this year was Jim McKay’s commentary.

[Leep]

There is Olympics going on?

[The Sons of Liberty]

Rio Olympics: NBC Opening Ceremony Miraculously Makes Brazil Boring

Between the lib NBC pukes like Matt Lauer, the lecture on global warming, and endless parade of commercials, I fell asleep.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

NBC Opening Ceremony Miraculously Makes Brazil Boring

The commercials which took up as much time as the actual opening ceremonies certainly didn't help.

[rainee]

Snoozefest! Wayyy too long & too many commercials.
Global warming, slaves...really?
& then the globalist loony lefty’s applauding the refugee team. Ugh

I want to see Matt Lauer report live from slums in San Paolo.

[moovova]

Not to mention, they preempted Wheel Of Fortune.

No Vanna, no Olympics.

[dfwgator]

They needed "Getting Gay With Kids".

Doo-doo-doo, da-da-do-do-wow!
There's a place called the rainforest that truly sucks ass
Let's knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say 'save the rainforest', but what do you know?
You've never been to the rainforest before!
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes 'cos caring sells
All you activists can go ____ yourselves.

Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There'll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
Getting Gay with Kids is here
Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
Its totally gay, it's totally gay

[dfwgator]

For those who didn’t watch, here’s a brief synopsis:

In the beginning, Brazil was inhabited by happy indigenous people who were happily dancing around with green string....UNTIL the EVIL white man came from Europe and brought African slaves with them.

And the White man is the cause of all of the evils in the world, especially Climate Change.

[butlerweave]

From the seconds of the Ceremony I saw on the news I think they forgot to turn on the lights

[TomGuy]

I watched some via streaming.

They had a bunch of different colored ‘pod’ people in strange costumes. I had the volume low. I finally upped the volume. They were not even keeping rhythm with the music. But, the music wasn’t that good anyway.

Gustovo (IIRC) who carried in the torch acted like he had been whiffing the fumes. He handed it off. It finally got to a big kettle which rose — and my internet stream cut out. By the time I reloaded, there was a star-bursting show of lights in and around the stadium for several minutes. And ‘this stream has ended’.

[TomGuy]

The stream I watch on had no commentary, was ‘live’, and no commercial breaks.

During the live thread there were many complaints about the number of commercial breaks NBC had.

I will probably watch some venues, but they will be streaming or TiVo recorded so I can jump over commercials and the typical inane NBC commentaries.

[dfwgator]

I noticed they had a shot of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio that was illuminated in the Brazilian flag colors.

No blasphemy there. /s