“NBC: Nothing but communism;” Update: The peacock and Olympic logos redesigned
Photoshop – Lundesigns
Update: Thanks to David Lunde for the new Chicom-friendly peacock and Olympic logos.
Are you watching the Olympics? Have you detected Commie whitewashing by NBC?
So has Matthew Balan.
Maybe it’s time to redo the NBC peacock logo in ChiCom red with yellow stars…
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The Times of London highlights dissident voices you probably won’t be hearing on NBC:
WHILE the world marvelled at the spectacular opening ceremony in Beijing, a surprising backlash was materialising this weekend among Chinese internet users.
A significant number of those posting comments on some less closely censored websites said the ceremony had glorified authoritarian rule and one said it reduced individuals to “cogs in a machine”.
Yesterday even the website of the People’s Daily, the Communist party newspaper, recorded more readers criticising the event than admiring it, with some calling it “empty” and “boring”.
While the majority of Chinese people reflected the positive global reaction to the ceremony, the openness of the online dissent was surprising given the government’s draconian measures to crush any criticism during the Games.
China sent at least 58 citizens to labour camps for “reeducation” to stop them staging protests in Beijing, according to official figures. Eight more were given prison sentences and 45 others are awaiting punishment for daring to travel to the capital to raise their grievances.
All such protests were effectively stifled before Friday’s ceremony but yesterday the work of Zhang Yimou, who directed the show, was subjected to unusually strong public criticism.
“The actors looked like a swarm of ants,” complained Guo Yuquan, on Cat898.com, a popular website. “What was the idea? It was to consider people just as cogs in a machine. I think he got his ideas 100% from North Korea.”
“This had nothing to do with the Olympics or sports or even Chinese classical culture,” Guo Chen, a university professor, was quoted as saying in an interview with Kanzhongguo.com, another website.
Here’s the latest on the web censorship situation during the games from the Press Association:
Some websites remained inaccessible to reporters as competition got under way at the Beijing Olympics.
China’s communist government routinely filters its citizens’ access to the internet, but in the run up to the Olympics Chinese officials and officials with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) vowed there would be no censorship of the internet for accredited journalists covering the games.
Some sites were unblocked 10 days ago after reporters arriving to cover the games found them blocked and complained to the IOC, but others remain inaccessible, including sites related to the Tiananmen Square protests, Tibet, Taiwan and the Dalai Lama.
While searches for these keywords turned up long lists of websites, attempts to open some of them resulted in a message saying the page could not be displayed.
A search for information about the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual movement not only drew that error message but froze the search engine and prohibited further searches for several minutes. Sites that host thousands of blogs appeared to be open, but specific blogs remained blocked.
A statement by Chinese officials indicated they had gone as far as they intend to go. “Yes, we promised to provide free access to the internet – except for a few that would jeopardise our national security and would not be good for the healthy growth of our young people,” said Wang Wei, executive vice president of BOCOG, the Olympic organising committee.
“As in any other country, there are some kinds of limitations,” Wang added. “However, I think we are going to provide sufficient access for the media to cover the games.”
IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies suggested reporters should keep pushing the Chinese. “Sites that you need to have for your job, it’s important that you raise them for BOCOG’s awareness,” Davies said.
And now, back to NBC’s regularly scheduled, Commie-soft-pedaling programming…
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As much as I hate the Games being over in China, I’m trying to keep the politics out of it when I watch. Our athletes have worked too hard.
I can’t blame NBC too much for their coverage. They’re probably walking a tightrope and don’t want their broadcasting pulled by the Chinese government.
Alain Bernard: “The Americans? We will smash them”
NBC’s commenter: “I don’t think they (USA) can do it…they should get the silver medal”
Then…THE SURGE
The low point of the opening ceremonies , for me, was in the beginning. They had the children dressed in their outfits walking and singing, a very nice image, followed by soldiers marching with weapons (a la Communism).
Matt Lauer said this had such special significance for the Chinese because it represents the children as China’s future and behind them is the state to guarantee the children’s future.
I got a completely different image from seeing soldiers marching behind children. To me it said the state is there to oppress China’s future and keep them “in line”. (Hence the stern marching and guns.)
NBC is doing all it can to present China as the country the rest of the world needs to emulate. Just happy, peaceful people. Nevermind the brutal oppression of its people. Just sweep all that mess under the rug and enjoy the Games…and NBC’s huge haul from advertising dollars!
guitarplayer-I totally agree-
The young men and women have worked hard to represent this country–
Remember Carter and the Moscow fiasco?
I had a friend who trained-made it to the team and was devestated when that Pres. (one of the worst I might add) pulled his ONLY “strong” stand while in office… what was it??
Penalizing hard working U.S. citizens—the athletes!
The Olympics are being held now? Hmmm. Oh that is right I heard something about Bush shooting off his mouth as well as others with political agendas. Olympics, not really, not for me. Thank you Jimmy Carter.
Probly that whole China thing about do as we say or we send you home… or worse… has something to do with it, but, yeah, I tried to watch the Olympics this weekend and had to turn off the sound after about 10 min of them fawning and slobbering over how great China was, how great China is, and how great China will again become.
This may also be good for America.
Should the Olympics by its nature stir up American Patriotism ans Nationalism.
(See response to 400 m relay victory by the US over France), that is also bad for Obama.
It will circumscribe and highlight why Obama is non-AMerican. Further, the Russian-Georgian conflict also is (or should be) particularly bad news and timing for Obama.
I believe more Americans than the NBC and the tres of MSM ARE AWARE of the bad situation in CHINA and RUSSIA.
REWORKED MY ORIGINAL NBC CHI-COM LOGO
Had to rework it with the Olympic rings and got some other ideas from Lundesigns and Ron Rockstar. Thanks to you both for your ideas, I think this might make a good T-Shirt.
Yes we were on the same path, Great minds think alike.
I’m a little ticked at NBC because I can’t see video of the torch being lit during the opening ceremony. I went to their official website and you have to enter your zip code and internet service provider. I then got a message that I couldn’t view it because Cablevision doesn’t have an agreement with NBC. So I figured someone must have put it on youtube or some similar site. I found a couple, but when I clicked on them I got a message that the videos are not accessible due to possible copyright issues. I finally found a grainy one I could watch, but I wonder how long it will take NBC to have that one pulled.
Not surprising that the same network which features creatures like Keith “The Shill” Olbermann would fawn over Red China.
Them “Democratic Socialists/Communists” gotta stick together, after all.
Hmmmm..
Im trying to find any video/pics on the “lovely” goose-stepping of the olympic flag. Try googling or youtubing this…nadda. Should we be surprised?
I thought the opening ceremonies for the Olympics were absolutely amazing. The skill and artistry of the events were phenomenal. The Chinese people were making a statement on many levels about their people and their culture.
The athletic competition at the Olympics, as always, is the reason for watching the games. No matter what the sport, the stories are always compelling.
I love the Olympics and seeing athletes do amazing things. This year it’s been tainted with NBC’s horribly biased coverage. Did people forget that communism should be viewed as evil? It was back in the day when the USSR was around. How is China any different? I watched a special interest piece about a Chinese diver that got in trouble when she started making money doing endorsement deals. They forced her to go back into diving. Well, maybe not “forced”, but she was scolded into coming back. It made me sad for her because she’s a talented diver, but she is not free to pursue other interests (especially if they better her life!).
I’d also rather not watch the fawning over how good the Chinese are at everything before we even get to see the American athletes compete.
It creeps me out to no end that the MSM make communism seem like the “wave of the future” and as somewhere they’d like to go.
And then there’s the tampering by
faking the fireworks and reordering the parade of nations.
You’re kidding, right? Similar to the way Jordan Eason and the CNN Baghdad bureau covered up Saddam’s big party so they could stay around and report the fake news??? Same thing here!
Excuse me Eason Jordan, that is….
I can’t help but view the IOC as the UN Sports Channel; a repugnant bunch, all of them.
You can’t beat the great feeling watching the Americans pull off the relay win last night, just out-touching the French. All the goo on the VISA ads about cheering for the world is bunk. We cheer because they are AMERICANS.
Also – I do remember one of the announcers at the opening ceremony (I believe it was Costas) commenting after the drummers finished, that it was amazing, but also a bit disconcerting and a bit weird. He was decidedly uncomfortable about the regimented perfection as I believe a lot of us viewers were. Leni Reifenstahl would have been proud of the Beijing show.
Test post for see-dubya.
The word that comes to my mind about the drumming segment is “mesmerizing”. It was a powerful statement of discipline and precision and I think it was used as the first segment to send a message. It was an artistic version of “shock and awe”.
The most famous Super Bowl halftime moment is probably Janet Jacksons’ “equipment malfunction”. Comparing these to events, IMO, it was a statement by the Chinese about cultural values and what they contribute to the society.
I don’t agree with the communist ideology about collectivism and the individual vs. the state.
However, the message I received from the Olympic opening ceremonies, is that the United States is facing formidable challenges (and opportunities) from China in the 21st century. Burying your head in the sand and ignoring this challenge is a mistake. The current U.S. culture of vulgarity, cultural offensiveness, corporate malfeasance and government ineptitude is not going to serve us well in facing the challenges of the future.
So many people are under the mistaken idea that the United States has Detente with China, and Russia.
It’s really an illusion. China and Russia are the same enemies they always were. Detente died with President Nixon, and perhaps the closest we’d ever come for common ground with Soviet China. Had Nixon not been impeached, there may very well had been some sort of treaty with the Chinese, and it seems all of his diplomacy was heading in that direction.
Reagan made incredible inroads, but 8-years of the Clinton Administration, with nobody minding the store, and Russia and China have been up to their old tricks, lately. Russia secretly backs Iran, and Mainland China has been secretly plotting to takeover Taiwaan.
It’s amazing how people are “shocked” at all the Communist propaganda coming out of modern-day China.
#87
When this was taking place we were told that this was animation because it was too dangerous to film real fireworks like this. This wasn’t a trick, we were told and so were the commentators. I have enjoyed the Olympics and I enjoyed the opening ceremony. Our entire family was cheering and screaming last night when the US swimmers beat the French team. Right now we’re watching women’s beach volleyball and I can’t wait for gymnastics, my personal favorite.
NBC, like ANC before it, has always done a bunch of “reports” on the host country. Basically, what they are doing for China is much the same. They should not be turning it into a political issue, for that is the EXACT opposite of what the Olympics are supposed to be. However, they ARE doing WAY too much gushing about how wonderful the Chinese teams are, and not enough of our team…let alone anyone else.
Now, for those of you who did not see it last night, you truly missed one of the best, most exciting simming races last night with the 4×100 Men’s Relay.
For those that don’t know and haven’t heard, France had been talking a bunch of smack about how they were going to win, and when asked, the French Captain had said, “The Americans? We are going to squash them. That is what we are here for.”
Well, while it did look like that was going to happen, USA came from WAY behind and fought hard in the last 50m to catch and over-take the French by 0,08 seconds, touching the wall just ahead of them, shoving those pompous French words right down their throats. The French couldn’t even look at them and wouldn’t even congratulate them, even on the podium.
It was the class act Michael Phelps who steped down off the Dias and walked over to the French and shook their hands, both showing them what it is to have class…and probably even rubbing their noses in it just a bit more.
So you guys are really missing out on some really good stuff, if not just avoiding supporting our teams in general.
Sorry…ANC=ABC
I really hate my keyboard.
kycon (#132): Yeah, I read about it on Hot Air earlier today. Tried watching the video on NBC.com before I posted my comment, but the NBC website wanted me to install a media player, which I didn’t feel like doing. I was wondering why no one was talking about it.
Ugh… Watching the Women’s Gymnastics qualifying rounds with the sound on was a mistake. Both commentators, at one point, were criticizing the “lack of discipline” on the Romanian team as compared to the 1976 team and how they just weren’t as good as they used to be.
I turned to my husband. “Wasn’t Romania under Soviet rule in 1976? Didn’t the Soviets try to turn everything into a glorious victory for communism every time they went to the Olympics?”
“Yeah, if I remember correctly.”
“So NBC thinks that everything was better under the communists?!”
“It would appear so.”
Oh, and the only reason they were even slightly favorable to the US gymnasts is because they had to “overcome adversity” with all their injuries.
Pathetic commie-lovers.
Ret Fireman, it’s not really a matter of politics or anything else that is causing me to avoid the Olympic broadcasts. It’s just that I simply don’t care. There really isn’t that much on TV that holds my interest anymore.
Granted, as a former competitive swimmer, I was ecstatic to hear about the defeat of the French team but that’s really about it. I have no interest in listening to a bunch of talking heads followed by a lot of commercials. I’ll just content myself with reading up on it the day afterwards.