Posted on 08/04/2008 1:54:40 PM PDT by Pyro7480
NBC’s Matt Lauer, broadcasting live from the Great Wall of China on Monday’s "Today" show, referred to the "double-edged sword" of the world’s attention being on China for the Summer Olympic Games and asked a Chinese professor about how that "spotlight" might be "co-opted by party crashers who have a bone to pick with this country. He then asked the professor, "How worried are the people here about that?"
Lauer, who will be in China during the next weeks for the Olympics, interviewed Professor Teng Dimeng of the Beijing Foreign Studies University 20 minutes into 7 am Eastern hour of the NBC program. According to the University’s own website, it is a "key university under the [Chinese] Ministry of Education" and that "since her initiation, the [Communist] Party Central Committee and the late Chinese leaders, including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, has provided great care and teachings for the development of the university." Therefore, Lauer, despite introducing Teng as a professor, was actually speaking to an employee of the Communist Chinese government.
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Perky Katie didn’t leave NBC soon enough. Oh well...
You got dat right. Cuz dat’s how dey roll!
I think the whole "Olympic spirit" thing is completely gay, so I'll continue to bitch about China.
China is using these Games to project a positive image of themselves to the world. I consider it the duty of those who value freedom to use this opportunity to let otherwise unaware folks realize what a horrendous nation they really are. I just sent out some extremely graphic Tibet massacre pictures to my entire email contact list earlier today and I'm already getting responses to the effect of people will not be watching the Games as a result of this. Warms my heart.
Olympics: Seven years ago, while the selection process was still ongoing, we said that it would be a mistake for the Games to be awarded to Beijing. The Chinese have, unfortunately, confirmed our doubts.
But then Beijing was not a good choice.
• Athletes are being asked to compete in appalling environmental conditions. The city's poor air quality, as much a relic of decades of environmentally filthy communism as it is a sign of a burgeoning economy, could cause health problems for competitors.
• The government is censoring Internet usage by foreign journalists, an outrage the International Olympic Committee doesn't seem too concerned about.
• Beijing announced in June that "Not all of China is open to foreigners, and they shall not go to any venue not open to them." One of those venues "not open to them" is Tibet.
“But then Beijing was not a good choice.”
But it was the choice, whether you or anyone else likes or dislikes it. Support our athletes, get off the politics for one week out of your lives, and enjoy the games for what they are, or are supposed to be, an athletic prowess event. Stop mixing the two up and ruining it, like the Dems are trying to do. T
“I consider it the duty of those who value freedom to use this opportunity to let otherwise unaware folks realize what a horrendous nation they really are.”
Yeah, and one day other nations will consider it their duty to do it to us if we are awarded the Olympics. Don’t think it couldn’t happen. And stop punishing our athletes over an event that you can’t and won’t stop, and shouldn’t. Support our athletes, not your private political crusade which will go nowhere fast. Save your anti-China rap for some other forum than the Olympics. You have misplaced your emotions here.
“To paraphrase you - where is your pride in your country’s founding principles and its pursuit of freedom and liberty for oppressed peoples?”
It doesn’t rise nor fall on one week of the Olympics held once every four years as an attempt at world unity over at least one thing, and that being athletic games. Obviously to you, your very being is based on what happens politically during that one week in China rather than what happens on the athletic field. Your drama is boring.
“I can’t believe you think the Olympics were invented for anything but politics ... and business profits.”
No, I don’t think that, and the history of the games goes all the way back to ancient Greece, as I am sure you must know. Your cynicism is unpleasant. Go give your opinion of what the games mean to an American athlete up on the podium about to receive his/her gold medal while our national anthem is playing, and see what kind of a reception you will get.
“Your drama is boring.”
Maybe.
However, your cheerleding of the ChiComs and your support of their ongoing genocide/forced sterilization/abortion/support of Islamists in Iraq and Afghanistan/veto of sanctions against Mugabe in the support of fictitious “world peace” is digusting.
You also ignored my parallels to Hitler’s Berlin Olympics. Maybe, you are a fan of the Nazis too and their brand of “world peace”?
You are heartless, mindless, and souless. I only pity you and your misplaced sense of priorities.
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Good for them. I couldn't care less.
And stop punishing our athletes over an event that you can’t and won’t stop, and shouldn’t.
I can't stop it, but nothing would make me happier than nasty riots over there causing cancellation.
Support our athletes, not your private political crusade which will go nowhere fast. Save your anti-China rap for some other forum than the Olympics.
What is so special about Olympic athletes that I need to put them on some sort of pedestal? They're people. I'm sure some of them are good and some of them are a$$holes, just like any other group of people.
Save your anti-China rap for some other forum than the Olympics.
So I should save it for when the Olympics are over and the spotlight is no longer on China and people are less likely to care? Forget it.
Today's games have noting to do with the ancient Greek games. That's silly beyond words.
Your cynicism is unpleasant.
I call it realism.
Go give your opinion of what the games mean to an American athlete up on the podium about to receive his/her gold medal while our national anthem is playing, and see what kind of a reception you will get.
Why should I do that? Why should I care how they feel about it? It's my opinion and if they don't like it then too bad. Go ask a Tibetan how he/she feels about being beaten and shot for wanting to be free.
“To each their own.”
More melodrama.
“Go give your opinion of what the games mean to an American athlete up on the podium about to receive his/her gold medal while our national anthem is playing, and see what kind of a reception you will get.
Why should I do that? Why should I care how they feel about it? It’s my opinion and if they don’t like it then too bad.”
How partriotic to your own kind. You obviously care more about a Tibetan than your own American athletes who have labored long and hard to get where they are, at the Olympics. No point debating with you. You have misplaced priorities and patriotism.
“What is so special about Olympic athletes that I need to put them on some sort of pedestal? They’re people. I’m sure some of them are good and some of them are a$$holes, just like any other group of people.”
You don’t get it never will. Enjoy your misplaced hostility and anger.
My own kind? I am a person. I certainly value human life more than some stupid sports event.
“However, your cheerleding of the ChiComs and your support of their ongoing genocide/forced sterilization/abortion/support of Islamists in Iraq and Afghanistan/veto of sanctions against Mugabe in the support of fictitious “world peace” is digusting.”
My cheerleading is for our American athletes performing at the Olympics, and for the concept of the Olympic Games themselves. Your cheerleading is misplaced, verging on pathological, and you really should consider seeing a shrink. You decided to extrapolate out of your own myopic opinion that my support must thus be for the Chi-Coms and all the other blather you spewed thereafter. Speak for yourself toots, not for me, ever. You aren’t screwed on right and therefore this conversation, if you want to call it that, has come to an end. Enjoy rotting in the cesspool of your own warped mind.
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