Found this on HotAir Headlines, had to post here with Commentary.
Go figure. China doesn’t want Journalists roaming around, they just might find something embarrassing. I like the part about the “live” tv feed – it has a 10 second delay, the better to not let the masses know just how illegitimate the totalitarian government really is.
When will we in the West quit mollycoddling these brutal regimes? They say the Games are nonpolitical, but everyone, especially China, know better. It serves to legitimize an illegitimate government that brutally represses its people, restricts their knowledge, and now seeks to restrict ours. Why did anyone with half a brain think we would have no problems of this nature, that they’d keep their word?
The sad fact of the matter is that these games will serve as a “Potemkin Event” designed to only show how wonderful Communist China is. Wait, all this sounds a little familiar.
Jeff Weimer
Dan McLaughlin
Moe Lane
Neil Stevens
Steve Maley
I was surprised by my wife last night
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Sunday, July 13th at 9:18AM EST (link)She is a recovering liberal Dem and jewish. We hadn’t talked about the olymics and I had just assumed we would be watching. Last night she sees and ad for them and says outloud, “not that I’ll be watching.” If she decided to personally boycott, I wonder how the ratings will end up looking.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
The games were always geopolitical
Neil Stevens (Diary) Sunday, July 13th at 9:44AM EST (link)As far back as 1936 they were, anyway!
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