Posted on 08/20/2008 9:43:27 AM PDT by AJKauf
Sour-faced Bob Costas and Cris Collinsworth should take a lesson from the enthusiastic, America-loving Bela Karolyi.
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Being the typical American family — 2.1 kids, house in the burbs, yappy dog — the Olympic Games have been running in the background pretty much non-stop at our house. In the evening, after work, I settle down with everyone else and watch what Bob Costas and company have for me that night.
Maybe it’s just the fact that after three days both fish and avuncular TV anchors stink, but the NBC talking heads have gotten on my last olfactory nerve.....
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I gave up on the NBC anchors within the two minutes I watched the opening ceremonies. They were so into giving the Chinese propaganda spin, it was disgusting.
Bela knows what it is like to not live in a country as great and as free as america and does not take it for granted.
I have never seen Bob Costas laugh. Ever.
Worldly, media-elite sophisticates are above patriotism.
It is for the provincial, closed-minded, un-nuanced religious fairy-tale believers out in flyover territory.
I thought he was dead!!
they are the two asses that compared Italy to the same level as Mali and Togo.
Italians are furious at them and NBC
He’s had a lot of work. I’m not sure if he can smile any more.
It was painful to watch.
The “commentators”/cheerleaders would fawn over the Jamaican runners and just before the race would start they’d mutter that “oh-yeah, an American is in lane 6.”
You think these folks would be caught dead wearing an American flag pin?
No way.
I want to watch and I catch a little of the Olympics every night and then kick myself for turning it on.
Not sure of her name, but the woman doing color for the diving is the worst. No one can defeat a Chinese diver, ever. They’re good, but when another competitor does well, it’s a fluke, it’s because they were in the water before a drastic error was visible to judges, it’s good, but just not up to the high standards of the Chinese team. So I mute the TV and put on some Pink Floyd “Animals”.
Patriotism might not actually kill them, but it would surely kill their careers...
I saw Costas interviewed Rush once. Rush was very amiable but Costas had his defiant glare in his eye and was looking at Rush with determined fierceness. I think Rush had trouble not bursting into laughter because Costas’ stance was perfect for pushing a big pin into. Puffed up dork. Also a “world class AH”, as our favorite Crawford resident would say.
If he never laughs, he is.
That’s what the other channels are for. As soon as the wrap around coverage starts go to one of the other places Universal is showing Olympics, they pretty much always have a sport going on one of the channels.
Of course, we had an American woman win the discus gold for the first time in decades and as far as I can tell NBC has not bothered to show a single throw she did and has never shown her medal ceremony.
Bob Costas and Cris Collinsworth know sports and nothing else.
Two typical self-hating white libs who have outgrown love of country and humanity in their short sick lives.
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