Libsmasher
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After 294 medals awarded, Canada has won ......... NONE!!!
Unlike algeria, egypt, and (hee hee hee!
) Zimbabwe!! 
Unlike algeria, egypt, and (hee hee hee!


Well, now 354 medals have been awarded, and Canada checks in with a big, fat, perfectly round ZERO!!!!!!!!![]()
THAT makes you gleefully happy??? What kind of a "human" being are you??? Besides a lousy example for an "amerikan.". Talk about a cheap shot.
libs: if you have been paying attention........ many if not most of US hadit 's so called "anti american" remarks are based on observable facts. & and are shared by the majority of the world OUTSIDE the US. (yes , there IS a world outside the US.....even if americans don't KNOW it ) Don't think anyone is expressing GLEE at the US shortcomings. You were expressing GLEE at the low olympic showing by Canada. Something akin to the maturity of a 2 yrs old. No offense to two year olds.
libs: you a sports fan??? The truth is that I have not been following the current Olympic events all that closely. I do know that Phelps (??sp??) from the US has done astonishingly well. and cudos to him. Congratulations for his success are certainly in order.![]()
Nonsense. His crap is standard anti-american cant, loaded with preposterous stereotypes, dribbling with phony "facts", revelant of historical clueness, and generally just a dumb-level regurgitation of leftwing agitprop. But, you're right about the majority, force fed with anti-US propaganda by state run TV, probably are just as clueless. Also Popeye, whom I understand to be another canadian, chortled when Cuba beat the US at baseball.
Bolt, in breaking his own world record, even slowed up at the end, pounding his chest, which has some wondering if he could have come in at 9.64, or even better. This is what the Olympics should be all about--watching athletes exceed our wildest dreams as to what is physically possible. There was just one problem with this amazing moment in sports history--it wasn't televised here in America. Instead men's basketball was being broadcast. Does anyone believe for one moment if US track star Tyson Gay had made the finals, this would have happened? In fact, unless you were following the race on a live blog you wouldn't have known a record fell at all. (And what does a "live blog" for a 10 second race look like? "The race begins." "Now it's over.")
As one poster at Washington Post.com put it, "Seriously, I'm sitting here watching the basketball team destroy Spain when I could have been watching the first person in history beak the 9.7 second mark? NBC has been dropping the ball all week on what they have been showing. They think that just because we are in America, all we want to watch are Americans." Another person called it "Shocking and disappointing." And yet another said pointedly, "Hey NBC, you SUCK."
Somehow NBC--as well as John McCain and the Republican party--hasn't gotten the memo that the cold war is over. Ivan Drago has left the building and no one wants to remake Red Dawn. We don't need to be spoonfed American athletes and US stars as if our national dignity would somehow be sullied if we watched Bolt race. The sports world has gone global.
If Bob Costas and NBC could just remove the red, white and blue face paint for a moment, they might be shocked by what they can see.
First off, I'm not Canadian, I was born and raised in the US and currently live in SW Washington state. I do occasionally go up and watch the Canucks play at BC Place in Vancouver but that's about it for my Canadian experience these days. So, you are wrong one more time.
I notice you speak of being "force fed" well NBC has force fed us US athletes to the point that we missed the live broadcast of Usain Bolt of Jamaica, set a world record of 9.69 seconds in the 100 meter dash. They opted instead to show us the US basketball team win another game by a rout.
THAT makes you gleefully happy??? What kind of a "human" being are you??? Besides a lousy example for an "amerikan.". Talk about a cheap shot.
Funny, but I'm proud to call myself a resident of one of the most progressive states in the union. I spent a great deal of my youth in California (Bay Area) and I know I wouldn't live in the fascist like cop filled OC unless I was quite literally paid.That figures - with all the libs in washington state, you should probably be annexed to canada, and you should CERTAINLY change the name of your state.
Libsmasher said:]This is pure BS. I SAW THIS ON NBC. They preceded the dash with a special video presentation on Bolt about his home in Jamaica. It showed him lifting weights, and then it showed them asking little kids on the street who Bolt was, and they all said "lightning bolt", what he is called by some in Jamaica. Every time I turn on the TV at night, all I see is jamaican athletes. They've shown all the heats for the women dash events, and gave background such as where they attend university in the US - one was in florida and the outger was University of Huston. They showed the women's 100 meter dash with jamaicans winning first and second place. All I've seen on TV lately it seems is the jamaican green and yellow track outfit. The women from NBC:
http://www.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/photos/galleryid=227381.html
NBC is said to be worried about post-Phelps ratings for these Olympics, yet they squandered the opportunity to turn Bolt into their second-week star by dumping his race in the outer-reaches of primetime and then giving it no notice on yesterday's broadcast. Bolt's speed, charisma, youth and good looks make him a prime candidate to be the breakout star of these Games. The Peacock Network is more concerned with squeezing every last ounce of coverage out of Michael Phelps
Somehow NBC--as well as John McCain and the Republican party--hasn't gotten the memo that the cold war is over. Ivan Drago has left the building and no one wants to remake Red Dawn. We don't need to be spoonfed American athletes and US stars as if our national dignity would somehow be sullied if we watched Bolt race. The sports world has gone global.
If Bob Costas and NBC could just remove the red, white and blue face paint for a moment, they might be shocked by what they can see.
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Originally Posted by Libsmasher
That figures - with all the libs in washington state, you should probably be annexed to canada, and you should CERTAINLY change the name of your state.
Funny, but I'm proud to call myself a resident of one of the most progressive states in the union. I spent a great deal of my youth in California (Bay Area) and I know I wouldn't live in the fascist like cop filled OC unless I was quite literally paid.
You may have seen it...tape delayed. The 100m final is one of the top events at every Olympics and Usian Bolt is the fastest man in the world. Yet NBC decided, because Bolt is Jamaican, that it didn't warrant a live feed or the kind of primetime coverage it deserved. Imagine if Bolt was American, they wouldn't be able to shutup about him.
Fine, you can be proud - just change the state name to something more appropriate and stop defiling the memory of George Washington. How about "Malcolm X"? Maybe "Stalin"? As for Orange County - it's a place where freedom rings, private enterprise thrives, and the fourth of july is celebrated. A pinko lib-fascist like you would be unwelcome.
Libsmasher said:]Yes, because unlike dictatorship and third world-fixated america-hating people like you, most americans want to see how the americans are doing. Another thing is that Bolt is an arrogant snot, always making snide gestures before and after races.