Would you agree there’s a difference between being polite and sucking up as Lauer did with a question that managed to simultaneously put down the USA while praising China?
I suppose you could assume that the people in the US feel way more free to speak of their displeasure on various issues than the Chinese do - i.e. you'd better be happy or else.
Those media people are buried so deep in the left that they don't even know it. I saw Ann Curry vehemently attack Rick Warren because she accused him of being anti-gay - as if such a thing was against the 10 Commandments.
It's all disgusting but nevertheless I enjoyed watching the Olympics.