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Olympic complaint

By / 18 August 2008

I finally caught up with the Olympic news yesterday. The thing that depressed me most was that number of columnists taking aim at the hypocrisy of China. It could be the small cynical man sitting behind my head whispering to the devil on the left and angel on my right shoulder (they seem to give me the same message) but it seems like complaint about the Chinese performance has become a commodity of ‘news’ outlet sales. All the regular columns berated, every other page showed pics and results of events. I heard a radio host slay the media for gratuitously showing the weightlifters elbow over and over and over.

“Outrageous,” he exclaimed.
“We agree,” we applauded.
“For those who don’t know what we are talking about,” he confided, “I have put a link on our web page!”
“We will look just for the information,” we consoled.
“And if our hits should increase, it is unintentional,” he confessed.

If China is giving the bird to the rest of the world they will be rewarded. When this is over and we have stopped selling papers by abusing them we will go right back to buying every piece of under-priced crap flooding our stores and everyone else will pursue the same free trade agreement we have. Shopping question number one – is this product cheaper? Shopping question number two – can you help me put it in the car please?

“Bad Olympic country… can we have some more please?”

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