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.
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...
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.
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.
In their rush to seem "relevant," they have forgotten that most of look to sports as an escape from silly pompous leftists.
Bob Costa is a %$#*&*$ *%$*#@!!!!!!!
Condescending, elitist, arrogant and generally a putz.
You want patriotism from leftist-owned networks?
NBC’s coverage choices have also been rather odd. They’re still playing 5 year old C+ movies on USA and running episodes of Dr Phil during the day, and running few live events during the overnight. (I’m often up at 3-4am.) Why not scour the events, and re-run the exciting ones during the day (instead of the pre-lims in ping-pong, with the US vs Nigeria, neither of whom is expected to go to the quarter-finals), and run live “lesser” events after midnight until 6am. (Noon-6pm in Beijing... you know, actually LIVE live.) They wouldn’t be sacrificing any ratings overnight, and allowing plenty of TiVo-ing. I tihnk they’d get more traction, better ratings, and more interst overall.
When i heard that NBC would be hosting the Olympics on TV, I resigned myself to the fact that people like Costas and Collinsworth would iritate me.....if i let them. I pretty much ignore the idiots and don’t watch their commentary.
I did not take time to read this post but have to say I have found the Olympics coverage by NBC to be excellent. They have done a very, very good job covering the games. The annoying feature fluff of the past games that took time away from the events is gone. The commercials while too many for the opening ceramony do not seem to get in the way now. Great Job on this one NBC.