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2006-02-11 Fifth Column
NBC Announcer for Olympics displays Dhimmitude
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Posted by Ulererong Elmeamble2375 2006-02-11 00:16|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 IIRC, Soviet athletes did not regularly receive major Madison Avenue endorsements. They did not appear on Wheaties boxes, co-star in drive-in movies, or become color commentators for Amerikanskii futbol matches.

Yes, they did "disappear."
Posted by Theath Spineng8371">Theath Spineng8371  2006-02-11 02:18||   2006-02-11 02:18|| Front Page Top

#2 No, you're wrong Theath - they didn't disappear, that's just what you were "taught"!
Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-02-11 06:46||   2006-02-11 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in college, I used to argue with a dedicated Sparticist Youth Leaguer (nutty but easy on the eyes) about her revolutionary aspirations for the State of Wisconsin. She never had an answer on how the Green Bay Packers would be managed in a new Utopia despite their obvious place in the hearts of the workers and peasants there.

The truth of how sports and entertainment, e.g. pop music, were run behind the Iron Curtain is fascinating and chilling. Hockey player Sergei Federov's wife said she was convinced he would be jailed or even killed for lobbying authorities to play in the NHL during the 1980's. It wasn't unheard of back then.
Posted by JDB 2006-02-11 10:47||   2006-02-11 10:47|| Front Page Top

#4 This wasn't dhimmitude per se, but collossal, stunning historical ignorance. Hell, he was probably even alive during this time. Too busy to notice I guess.
Posted by whitecollar redneck 2006-02-11 12:21||   2006-02-11 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 How can we expect the Marxists and useful idiots to lay low and deal with reality when we can't even keep the lid on the Holocaust deniers these days.
Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz  2006-02-11 13:20||   2006-02-11 13:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Bob Costas did a great job. Someone should have told Brian Williams that the Olympics is not about politics. We kept hoping Bob would tell him to shut up. I'm sure he felt like it.

Only other moment that marred an otherwise spectacular show was the aging Susan Sarandumb. What has she done to deserve the honor? I guess if you shill for enough dictators you get to carry the Olympic flag.
Posted by 2b 2006-02-11 13:57||   2006-02-11 13:57|| Front Page Top

#7 I missed it (I don't watch much sport unless it involves senseless violence or females in jelly), but it appears, from what I read in forums, that the italian public BOOED the iranian and lebanese teams... with the Eurosport (sport satellite/cable channel) sound engineering trying to hide it, and the segment being removed from re-airing.

Any confirmation???
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-02-11 16:16||   2006-02-11 16:16|| Front Page Top

#8 The Green Bay Packers are the ultimate socialist enterprise. They are owned by the workers, otherwise they would have been moved to a much bigger media market long ago. They are part of the NFL, whose motto is from each, according to its ability to pay to each according to their needs, which under the worker exploiting salary cap, are the same; obviously a socialist organization.

Have at it.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-02-11 16:42||   2006-02-11 16:42|| Front Page Top

#9 I watched the late-evening version and wondered why there was a cut away to commericals during the time the Russian members were being introduced.
Posted by Captain America 2006-02-11 19:17||   2006-02-11 19:17|| Front Page Top

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