The Media's Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts: Ashamed of the U.S.A.

NewsBusters.org ^ | February 7, 2014 | Geoffrey Dickens

[Kaslin]

Sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from reporters covering the games. Over the years the MRC has documented lefty reporters and writers using the games to celebrate socialist policies, bash expressions of patriotism and even work in jabs against Republicans.

In the spirit of the games, the most outrageous journalists are competing with each other in three events for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. Today's competition: The "Stop Waving That American Flag, It's Embarrassing!" Event. Click the Read More button to see who takes home the gold! Will it be Katie Couric and Matt Lauer? Bryant Gumbel? Or will there be a stunning upset? 

Click here to see day one results.

The “Stop Waving That American Flag, It’s Embarrassing!” Event

 

Iron Curtain Ridicule (runner-up)

“Yet the star-making machinery is oddly out of touch, with huge streaks of lingering Cold War mentality and sexism. The American swimmer Lenny Krayzelburg is one of the most appealing personalities, low-key and modest. One of the many features about him born in Odessa, moved to California began, ‘He’s known life behind the Iron Curtain and in the land of opportunity.’
When is the last time you heard the term ‘Iron Curtain’ used with a straight face?”
— New York Times television critic Caryn James, September 27, 2000 review of Olympic coverage.

 

Today Show Hosts Worry that U.S. Patriotism Could Mar Games

Today Hosts Worry that U.S. Patriotism Could Mar Games

Matt Lauer: “You are expecting a greater wave of patriotism here in the United States, in this particular time, than other countries have shown when they’ve hosted the games.”
Lloyd Ward, U.S. Olympic Committee President: “I certainly expect the stands to be rocking. I expect the flags to be flying. And you know, the expression of patriotism is fine for any country that hosts the Olympics. We want to express our nationalism as a part of the world's community and I expect to see that.”
Lauer: “But we have to also be careful and draw a line not to let our patriotism get in the way of the games in general.”
— Exchange on NBC’s Today show, February 7, 2002.

“Obviously, the opening ceremony, the games themselves will be very patriotic in feel. And yet sometimes the international community can interpret that as arrogant nationalism. Obviously, you’ve gotta balance those two things. Are you all, clearly you’re mindful of that. How are you, how are you going to do that?”
—  NBC’s Katie Couric questioning Salt Lake Olympic Committee Creative Director Scott Givens on Today, Feb. 8, 2002.

Awful “Nationalistic” Medal Counts

Bryant Gumbel Condems 'Nationalistic' Medal Counts

Jane Clayson: “To see Jimmy Shea last night kissing that gold medal, it was really, his story is such an emotional highlight of these Olympic games.”
Bryant Gumbel: “Yeah, but I liked what he said. He said that, you know, they shouldn’t be keeping a medal count, that this is not about nationalistic efforts, this is about individuals and medal counts don’t mean anything. Love that!”
— Exchange on CBS’s Early Show, February 21, 2002.

 

“Nationalistic” Medal Counts Liberal Radio Host: It Pains Me to Chant “U.S.A!”

 

 “As I’ve grown older, I find my ‘U.S.A.!’-chanting reflex increasingly interrupted by pangs of discomfort, and not because I’m ashamed of our country or our Olympians....Missed in the ensuing red-white-and-blue hoopla, of course, is the fact that we are not so exceptional outside the Olympic village....We are not gold, silver or even bronze medalists when it comes to healthcare; sadly, we are 39th for infant mortality, 43rd for female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortal-ity....If we do stand atop a dais anywhere other than at a sporting event, it is for military spending, carbon emissions and incarceration rates.”
— Colorado radio host David Sirota in an August 1, 2012 piece for Salon.com, “Don’t chant ‘U.S.A.!’ It’s liberal Americans’ Olympic dilemma: How do they root for their countrymen without being jingoistic?”

[MagUSNRET]

Matt Lauer is a GD Liberal pussy, and HIGHLY overrated as a (gag) reporter. OH, and did I mention he is ugly as a mud fence?

[al baby]

“sadly, we are 39th for infant mortality, 43rd for female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortal-ity”

Does that include abortions?

[Para-Ord.45]

On the matter of culture in general. Watched a few moments of the 3 hour opening show where they sung opera.

You think if that were held in the USA there would have been half naked female rappers twerking ?

[Nowhere Man]

I’m tired of NBC hosting the Olympics, it’s time for someone else to take a crack at it. I dunno if ABC or CBS would do any better (although if we dig up Jim McKay, I’d think he’d do a better job, even in zombie mode) but it is time to give Matt Lauer and Bob Costas a rest. I think it is payback because NBC was going to host the 1980 Summer Games but the boycott put an end to it. Ideally, I’d like to see it split up to the three networks but that’s for another time.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Too bad they don’t beat a permanent path to Cuba or Russia or North Korea

[musicman]

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[TomGuy]

Wonder what they think of Leslie Stahl's major revelation that men and women actually are different?

Lesley Stahl Shocker: Men and Women are Different! (Really, Who Knew?)

Friday, February 07, 2014 1:15:04 PM · by Kaslin · 20 replies
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | February 7, 2014 | Rush Limbaugh


RUSH: Let me go to the Lesley Stahl sound bites. We'll start number three here. This is a little review. How long ago was it TIME Magazine actually ran a cover story: Shocking News: Men and women are actually born different! Now, that's 20 years ago, 18 years ago. For those of you that are not that old, me give you a little history of this. You might be scratching your head. "What do you mean, boys and girls, men and women are different? Everybody knows that!" No. See, the modern era of feminism began in the late sixties, the...

[tiki]

I just shut it off.

[Kaslin]

I don’t even know on what channel it is on

[bicyclerepair]

What is this sochi 2014 crap I keep seeing in banners?

[Kaslin]

I am afraid you are in the wrong thread . this is about the Olympics

[TigersEye]

He quoted from the article you posted.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Lauer, Couric, Gumbel and Sirota, the “Four Horses Asses of the Media”.

Any way we can get Putin to keep them there? A little Dacha, say in sunny Siberia? A hut on the Volga River. A caviar stand in Stalingrad?

Come on folks. We’ve got a once in a lifetime chance to keep these leftist, anti-American schmucks out of the country.

Come up with good ideas to keep them away, like the plagues that they are.

How about changing the old nickname for Couric from “Perky” to “Twerky”?

Lauer: He looks like a lawnmower ran over his head. Same look as a porcupine that got clipped by that mower.

Gumbel: Did you know that his name in Yiddish is “SCHMUCK”. Yep.

Sirota’s name in Yiddish is “PUTZ”.

There you have it: Twerky, Porkypine, and the Schmuck and Putz brothers.

Is this the best that the American news media can send? If so, let’s surrender now to Mr. Putin on the Blitz (in Georgia and the Ukraine). No use prolonging the pain. Besides, I understand that Pravda has changed its tune and is worth reading now. Is Tass still around? Got to be better than the New York Times. Even old issues of Tass have got to be better than the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost.

“Twerky” - the other white meat! DosviDanube!

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

#8: If Lesley Stahl didn’t learn that men and women are different when she was in high school, then it’s too late now to learn it.

Dating her must have been boring.

[mgist]

To be perfectly honest, I am ashamed of my country too.

We have a dictator sham government spying on its’ own people, and the rest of the world.

A morally bankrupt and inefficient school system that teaches children to expect a free lunch in life.

A culture of death that considers babies and elderly unwanted, therefore deserving death.

We have people who walk the streets thinking that “knocking out” random strangers is entertaining.

We have mafioso unions acting as enforcers for their Capo political Fat Cats.

Small business that made this country the land of the “American Dream” are dying.

Our government is spending like a drunken sailor, acting like a wanna be Argentina, and “conservatives” think immigration is an issue?

The Marxist political manipulators create division and animosity and conservatives take the bait like mindless fish.

We have a Hollywood movie and music world that has become a mental poison for the world. Especially the most vulnerable: Our Youth.

Then we have a media machine in place that would make Goebbels’s proud.

I am ashamed of my country. We have turned from God. He didn’t turn from us.

[BenLurkin]

When is the last time you heard the term ‘Iron Curtain’ used with a straight face?”

I don't get it. Who wouldn't?

[Kaslin]

I have to remember to not rush through reading

[TigersEye]

:-) It did appear on the surface to be off topic.

[ReformationFan]

I’d recommend watching it would the sound completely off.