The Disingenuousness of Leftist Claims About the Olympics
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 5th at 11:47 AM |
The Democrats are in full push back against conservatives who cheered Barack Obama’s defeat at the hands of the International Olympic Committee. During the Bush era, Republicans from Karl Rove to Joe Wilson questioned — in ways both veiled and overt — the patriotism of Democrats who challenged the administration’s Iraq policy, pre-war intelligence and surveillance programs. But the joyous reaction in some GOP quarters | Read More »
Roland Martin is a Moron
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 3rd at 06:51 PM |
Roland Martin is a CNN Commentator and Obama sycophant. He says I, and others, are celebrating American defeat by laughing over the loss of the Olympics. Mr. Martin is one of the leftists in this country who spent the last several years rooting against our soldiers and sailors in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a strange set of priorities that leads a man to root | Read More »
Sports FAIL Poll
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 2nd at 12:29 PM |
Which is the greatest sports FAIL? Dan O’Brien Bill Buckner ’86 Red Sox Obama failed Chicago Olympics bid Jean Van de Velde British Open collapse 1980 Soviet Hockey Team Free polls from Pollhost.com
From the Mailbag
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | October 2nd at 12:12 PM |
From: Brooke Obie Subject: Chicago Date: October 2, 2009 11:52:35 AM EDT To: contact@redstate.com I surely hope you and all of your loved ones are employed and are not in danger of being laid off. You are really cheering the failure of Chicago to be the site of the Olympics–something that could have been an enormous stimulus to our economy–as a GOOD thing? It is | Read More »
Olympic Opening Ceremony is Lame Open Thread
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | August 8th at 09:09 PM |
They have nothing to resemble alphabetical order. The stunts are mostly lame. And no word yet if the torch will be lit with Tibetans and Falun Gong activists as kindling. Have I mentioned I hate the Chicoms? Here’s an open thread. UPDATE Did McDonalds design the Chicoms’ outfits? (kidding, yes I know it is the chicom color scheme). By the way, was I the only | Read More »
Eric Shanteau – Champion
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | July 11th at 09:43 PM |
This is something else. Good on him for sticking to his dream, but I hope he is responsible and gets back to get treatment ASAP. Olympic swimmer Eric Shanteau, of Lilburn, is heading to Beijing with a startling diagnosis: He has cancer. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Shanteau said he learned just a week before the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., that | Read More »