After the Olympics is gone...the facade lives on!
September 7th 2008 02:04
If you, dear reader, had read any of my previous blogs (unlikely but I like to fantasize that there is one "fan" out there) you'd know that I am not a fan of the Olympics. I find the games to be detestable and a grand waste of money. China spent well over $30 billion on the games which lasted, what 15? 16 days? but yet found putting such amounts in top priority when there are so many more pressing issues that could have used the money. Imagine there are people in this world who live off less than $1 a day. On that basis, how many people could have been fed or housed permanently in some poor nation? Tell me how many suffering people will profit off Usain Bolt's record breaking runs? Or Michael Phelps 8 gold medals? How will that help those who really need something more than what little or nothing they've got?
We as people have been suckered into beliving that the world somehow comes together at the games and sings "kumbya". Rubbish. If you watch the very partisan NBC you'll know that world unity is a facade. I tried watching NBC for one night and after watching their blatantly biased coverage I am no longer surprised that so many US citizens are so damn ignorant on any thing outside of the US borders! The one night that I attempted to watch, the heats of the 110m womens hurdles were on, and I'll be damned, but there were only two runners in the race! And both happened to be US athletes. Well I only saw two runners because the cameras focussed on those two. I figured the rest of the field were there just making up numbers. The US runners could have fallen and come dead last and the commentators would still have not made any mention of who won.
Not only was NBC one eyed in it's coverage, but it was the way the US cried foul over the Jamaican track athletes who managed to beat everyone else decisively. If the US couldn't win they'd lodge an appeal. How do you say spoilt? They took the whole thing a little further by saying that Usain Bolt was unsportsman like. Who is more unsportsmanlike than the US athletes and by extension NBC? Did you see the US athlete who dived over the line to get a medal? Did you see any US athlete congratulate other competitors in their events? I never saw Phelps, Gay, Dix (Gay and Dix...quite appropriate names fro US athletes) or any other athlete from that country do that either, so why throw stones if you live in a glasshouse? NBC never once chastised one of their own by saying that athlete X was unsportsmanlike. To prove a point they then dragged Jacques Rogge into the debate over Bolt's sportsmanship and twisted what was said to make Bolt's behaviour look bad in the IOC's eyes. What they also did was to try and trap Donovan Bailey into saying he believed Jamaican athletes were on drugs. Bailey was too smart for that, considering that if he'd said any such thing his Jamaican relatives in Canada and Jamaica would give him a lesson he'd never forget.
The worst accusations were that the Jamaican athletes were on drugs. How were the grapes NBC? Pretty sour I imagine. What would a small relatively poor country like Jamaica be doing with drugs? As far as I know Jamaica doesn't manufacture pharmaceuticals so whence do the drugs come from? People like Abrahamson who wrote for the MSNBC website as well as convicted drug maker Victor Conte need to keep their big ol' traps shut. I guess Conte beleives he has now become the proverbial criminal turned analyst/expert who believes he has something worthwhile to say. Apparently not considering that the Jamaican athletes were tested over 40 times at the games. The games have been over now for some weeks (thankfully) and not one report has surfaced of any drug in any Jamaican athlete's system. It must burn US Olympic officials to know that whilst they, over the past few years, have been busy packaging, and sending back medal after medal after medal.
Up until today I thought that the NBC olympic coverage was a once every four year thing. Wrong! I tuned into the weather channel today to check on the hurricane situation. Apparently, a tropical storm/hurricane is only important if it's heading toward the US. The insignificant islands in the Caribbean are just little bumps for the storms to roll over. One "weatherman" had the gall to say that it was good that Hurricane Ike was heading over Cuba! Only so that it wouldn't do as much damage to the US! What a kind hearted individual! Once again we have the well off showing little interest in the poor and defenceless in this world. Nice to know what the priorites are...not you outside of the US, but just you inside of the borders.
This is the leader of the free world? Once again the United States has shown that even though they have got plently of money, tthey have little class and even less sense.
We as people have been suckered into beliving that the world somehow comes together at the games and sings "kumbya". Rubbish. If you watch the very partisan NBC you'll know that world unity is a facade. I tried watching NBC for one night and after watching their blatantly biased coverage I am no longer surprised that so many US citizens are so damn ignorant on any thing outside of the US borders! The one night that I attempted to watch, the heats of the 110m womens hurdles were on, and I'll be damned, but there were only two runners in the race! And both happened to be US athletes. Well I only saw two runners because the cameras focussed on those two. I figured the rest of the field were there just making up numbers. The US runners could have fallen and come dead last and the commentators would still have not made any mention of who won.
Not only was NBC one eyed in it's coverage, but it was the way the US cried foul over the Jamaican track athletes who managed to beat everyone else decisively. If the US couldn't win they'd lodge an appeal. How do you say spoilt? They took the whole thing a little further by saying that Usain Bolt was unsportsman like. Who is more unsportsmanlike than the US athletes and by extension NBC? Did you see the US athlete who dived over the line to get a medal? Did you see any US athlete congratulate other competitors in their events? I never saw Phelps, Gay, Dix (Gay and Dix...quite appropriate names fro US athletes) or any other athlete from that country do that either, so why throw stones if you live in a glasshouse? NBC never once chastised one of their own by saying that athlete X was unsportsmanlike. To prove a point they then dragged Jacques Rogge into the debate over Bolt's sportsmanship and twisted what was said to make Bolt's behaviour look bad in the IOC's eyes. What they also did was to try and trap Donovan Bailey into saying he believed Jamaican athletes were on drugs. Bailey was too smart for that, considering that if he'd said any such thing his Jamaican relatives in Canada and Jamaica would give him a lesson he'd never forget.
The worst accusations were that the Jamaican athletes were on drugs. How were the grapes NBC? Pretty sour I imagine. What would a small relatively poor country like Jamaica be doing with drugs? As far as I know Jamaica doesn't manufacture pharmaceuticals so whence do the drugs come from? People like Abrahamson who wrote for the MSNBC website as well as convicted drug maker Victor Conte need to keep their big ol' traps shut. I guess Conte beleives he has now become the proverbial criminal turned analyst/expert who believes he has something worthwhile to say. Apparently not considering that the Jamaican athletes were tested over 40 times at the games. The games have been over now for some weeks (thankfully) and not one report has surfaced of any drug in any Jamaican athlete's system. It must burn US Olympic officials to know that whilst they, over the past few years, have been busy packaging, and sending back medal after medal after medal.
Up until today I thought that the NBC olympic coverage was a once every four year thing. Wrong! I tuned into the weather channel today to check on the hurricane situation. Apparently, a tropical storm/hurricane is only important if it's heading toward the US. The insignificant islands in the Caribbean are just little bumps for the storms to roll over. One "weatherman" had the gall to say that it was good that Hurricane Ike was heading over Cuba! Only so that it wouldn't do as much damage to the US! What a kind hearted individual! Once again we have the well off showing little interest in the poor and defenceless in this world. Nice to know what the priorites are...not you outside of the US, but just you inside of the borders.
This is the leader of the free world? Once again the United States has shown that even though they have got plently of money, tthey have little class and even less sense.
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