Think the IOC is sorry now it chose China?

Pull the plug on the coverage plans.

What all the US networks should do is pirate the China TV signals and run the highlights from that.

After all China has little respect for our copyright laws.

 

I had a feeling this was going to happen. Can't wait to see what agreements print media must sign when they get there. And to see if any print media do a 180 and come home upon being presented with such agreements.

 

The Chinese don't give a shit if we film it or not and there's no way American broadcasters will pull the plug. The Chinese government has been telling Rupert Murdoch what to do for years without so much as a whimper from him. All for the money.

 

Doesn't matter whether they had the stones or not. What would the IOC do? Not a damn thing...

 

Is it too late to boycott the Beijing Olympics?

 

Yeah, President Stupid will be all over that.

 

Carter left office in January of 1981. I can't believe you missed that.

 

The good news is that high-tech TV equipment will soon be selling dirt cheap when we get a sudden wave of Chinese knockoffs coming to market.

 

Do people even still watch these things? Seems like the Olympics have about as much appeal in the U.S. as watching soccer.

 

Maybe I'm idealistic, but I imagine most newspapers will jump on the opportunity to point out some of the oppressive tactics.

 

Actually, I was listening to something on NPR, I think, though it might have been the BBC World Service, the other day about exactly that. The decision was made before Hitler came to power, so to say "Hitler got the Olympics" is wrong. As it became clear what was going on there, though, I don't think there was any serious move to take the games away from Berlin.

The U.S. considered boycotting, and in the end didn't, obviously, though a couple of Jewish athletes did stay home. The Nazis also told the German people to be nice to everyone, Jews included, in something of an effort to put a good face on things. They did kick a Jewish high jumper off their team, having previously thrown her off and then invited her back. They interviewed her for the piece, and she basically said she would have been screwed either way if she'd been on the team. If she won, she would have been in mortal danger. If she lost, it would have "proven" what the Nazis were saying about Jewish inferiority.