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Wash Post Columnist: America's 'Olympic Chauvinism' Is 'Mild' Compared to Hitler's Germany
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| August 13, 2012
| Scott Whitlock
Posted on 08/13/2012 1:45:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
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posted on
08/13/2012 1:45:07 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
What’s a “Washington Post?”
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posted on
08/13/2012 1:47:16 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
To: Kaslin
The UK, PRC, French and Aussie media seem to have no problem championing their home country's athletes.
Why does every "think(sic)-piece" on US coverage of the Olympics moan about the generally positive coverage given to Team USA?
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posted on
08/13/2012 1:49:07 PM PDT
by
wideawake
To: Da Coyote
Cheap paper liner for bird cages and litter boxes.
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posted on
08/13/2012 1:49:20 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Bocephus hits a home run! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt_vjPqAVzI)
To: Kaslin
Jeez. So even just once every four years is too often for Americans to show some pride in the greatest country on Earth?
Except Michelle Obama, of course, who wasn’t proud of this country until she was 44 years old.
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posted on
08/13/2012 1:53:08 PM PDT
by
FoxInSocks
("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
To: Da Coyote
So what would they LIKE us to yell: ZIM-BA-BWE! ZIM-BA-BWE!???/s
(of course if we don’t throw the current crop of DC knuckleheads out in Nov., four years from now there won’t be much of a difference;)
To: Kaslin
Does anyone else notice that this “egalitarian” idea is never advanced with regard to Hollywood stars at the Oscars or to the promotion/election of a “superior” progressive “intellectual” to the White House?
To: Kaslin
and at the same time worrying about how Chinese athletes "dont get many humanizing breaks."
I assume he's a leftist. If so, he ought to be careful what he wishes for. People might be exposed to some human-rights issues that were completely unprepared for.
I say that we should by all means showcase the life of a Chinese child of about 5 when they are identified as a potential Olympic athlete.
We can discuss how their parents weren't allowed to visit or even see many of them perform at the Beijing Olypmics.
We can talk about how female athletes are beaten when they make a mistake.
Yup...Costas' coverage of Chinese athletes at the Olympics would be a great eye-opener.
To: Kaslin
Well, at least he didn’t call it ‘jingoism’..........
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:02:36 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Think logically. Act normally.................)
Godwin’s Law in effect, and they didn’t even make it off the title.
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:05:29 PM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(We are now officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet)
To: Kaslin
Last time I checked, NBC was an American company broadcasting to a primarily American audience. Maybe Bob Costas would interview some Chinese athletes if:
a) They spoke English
b) People in China had the freedom, not to mention money, to actually watch TV from the outside world, and
c) NBC was being broadcast (uncensored) in China.
Seriously, there cannot be a more clueless and useless group of people on earth than today's "journalists".
Just utterly, absolutely worthless.
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:07:22 PM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: Kaslin
“worrying about how Chinese athletes “dont get many humanizing breaks.” “
If this jackass actually cared about the Chinese athletes, he’d be writing article after article about how they’re raised and trained....
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:10:02 PM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(OWS = The Great American Snivel War)
To: wideawake
Last night, NBC showed a video clip of the BBC booth (shot from the back) when Brit Mo Farah won the men’s 10,000m. They all celebrated, and one of them knocked over his or her chair. NBC should have played the audio of the BBC’s call.
I wonder what Al Michaels looked like when he called the 1980 USA-USSR hockey game.
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:16:34 PM PDT
by
JeffChrz
(ObamaCare is now ObamaTax. Vote for Romney.)
To: Kaslin
And the US is championing the superiority of what master race of humans???????
Tripe!!!!
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:23:24 PM PDT
by
RatRipper
(Obama, YOU LIE!!! . . .again and again and again and again, ad infinitum. . . .)
To: Kaslin
Oikophobia is the state cult of leftists.
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:47:16 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
To: Kaslin
If we take the ‘patriotism’ (i.e. countries)out of the Olympics, what’s the point in having them? The games were started and billed as a way for countries to compete peaceably.
To: Amberdawn
Exactly, but then that is the LSM for you
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posted on
08/13/2012 2:57:29 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: Da Coyote
AKA here as Washington Compost
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posted on
08/13/2012 3:02:56 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
(Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
To: mmichaels1970
Profound. Thanks
When oh when will an American conservative pony up and buy one of the losing rags?
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posted on
08/13/2012 3:04:30 PM PDT
by
sgtyork
(The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
To: mmichaels1970
Profound. Thanks
When oh when will an American conservative pony up and buy one of the losing rags?
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posted on
08/13/2012 3:04:30 PM PDT
by
sgtyork
(The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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