Comments on: Patriotic banners banned from China Olympics

By: GJCorby

GJCorby — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:00:20 +0000

The ban against material supporting national teams extends to all nations with the exception of the Chinese national team I’m sure.

By: rambler

rambler — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:38:56 +0000

Has anyone bought any tickets? Empty seats don’t wave banners.

By: Southpaw

Southpaw — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:20:16 +0000

On July 15th, 2008 at 9:33 pm, docflash said:
Guess I won’t be watching,,think I will miss anything?

I don’t see anything about banning flags. I’ll be watching to see Old Glory waving in the heart of Communist China.

I can understand people not wanting to watch because of the NBC/China (gag) love-fest. The main reason I’ll be watching is to support and cheer for the athletes that have worked so hard their entire lives to get to this event.

By: HeatherRadish

HeatherRadish — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:48:25 +0000

but THEY HAVE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!

Including free abortions if you’re audacious enough to get pregnant a second time…lovely society. If only we Christofacsist godbag wingers weren’t impeding progress here in the States…

And yeah, NBC’s sappy, melodramatic, sports-free coverage (pandering to the females 25-50 sports-hating demo) means I haven’t watched an Olympics since 1996.

But I’ll be reading about it, and I’m wondering if any of the athletes are starting to worry about their personal safety–I know a lot of them have opted to live/train thousands of miles away in other countries–and what kind of plans the State Department has for getting them out when the tanks start rolling.

By: hawkeye54

hawkeye54 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:37:45 +0000

On July 16th, 2008 at 8:43 am, abstractmind said:
Honestly, I’m not even going to watch. This whole affair has been one giant trainwreck that I can honestly say I can pry myself away from watching this time.

I stopped watching the Olympics years ago as I grew weary of watching just snippets of some events wedged between commercials and the personal stories of the prominent athletes. Rarely did I get to see an entire live event, often just prerecorded highlights and only usually when a USA team or athlete was competing in the event.

And just to continue to keep me from watching the Beijing games are the stories of US citizen athletes actually competing as members of OTHER nations’ teams regardless of any ancenstral ties.

By: supersean

supersean — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:37:04 +0000

This is just another reason to tune out the Olympics. IMHO the Olympics are no longer a sporting event… it is now a challenge to see which country has the better drugs that are undetectable.

By: Tennyson

Tennyson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:02:52 +0000

I guess the reasoning behind granting them the Olympics was to encourage them to join the modern nations on the world stage – sort of a carrot, a politically-neutral opportunity for them to begin moving away from their totalitarian past.

The Chinese have responded by totally blowing the opportunity. They have no one to blame but themselves when this turns out to be the most-ignored Olympics ever.

By: ArizonaNeanderthal

ArizonaNeanderthal — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:51:34 +0000

So what? Why would any honest person go to that fascist, murdering country anyway? The athlets fine, that is what they do and they worked hard for it.

Perhaps the People’s Republic can have a re-enactment of Tienamin Square for old times sake.

By: abstractmind

abstractmind — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:43:48 +0000

Honestly, I’m not even going to watch. This whole affair has been one giant trainwreck that I can honestly say I can pry myself away from watching this time.

By: Brian72

Brian72 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:04:42 +0000

NBC will spend much more time promoting “The Rise of the Eastern Dragon”, implying that America is going to be supplanted by China as the world’s top superpower. This will be presented as a good development. After all, China’s human rights and personal freedom policies need a little tweaking, but THEY HAVE NATIONAL HEALTH CARE!

By: sfcmac

sfcmac — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:13:09 +0000

If you grant the privilege of holding the olympics to a totalitarian regime, the ‘rules’ they make should not surprise anyone.

By: ProtestShooter

ProtestShooter — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:22:22 +0000

If there’s no curling it’s not the real Olympics anyway.

By: DesertLover

DesertLover — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:50:35 +0000

I have not watched the Olympics since they took the contract away from ABC, where I used to get up all hours of the night to watch live broadcasts of the USA teams competing.

Now that it is on NBC everything is taped so they can show it in prime time on the east coast and to H*** with the rest of the country. They spend more time touting their own programming and coming up with BS features than showing the athletes and competitions.

NBC can keep their pseudo-coverage.

By: mattm

mattm — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:38:16 +0000

I never planned on watching the Olympics this year any way.

By: Christian Soldier

Christian Soldier — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:27:19 +0000

PS # 20 JHSH–Thank you for the list-very revealing.