"ALL CAPS IN DEFENSE OF LIBERTY IS NO VICE."

Sunday, August 17, 2008

WHAT LEFTIES ARE GOOD AT

The London Times's Gerard Baker has it exactly right:

To some, China's muscular domination of the Olympic medal table is a powerful allegory of the shifting balance of global power. A far better and more literal testimony to the collapse of the West may be seen in the distinctly weak-kneed response to Russian aggression in Georgia by what is still amusingly called the transatlantic alliance.

Once again, the Europeans, and their friends in the pusillanimous wing of the US Left, have demonstrated that, when it come to those postmodern Olympian sports of synchronized self-loathing, team hand-wringing and lightweight posturing, they know how to sweep gold, silver and bronze.

There's a routine now whenever some unspeakable act of aggression is visited upon us or our allies by murderous fanatics or authoritarian regimes. While the enemy takes a victory lap, we compete in a shameful medley relay of apologetics, defeatism and surrender. (Emphasis added.)

If you want to see more of that, vote for Barry Soetoro.

If you want America to continue to be governed by leaders, vote for John McCain.

And you know you want to read the whole thing.

(Hat tip: the indispensable Gerard Vanderleun.)

4 comments:

Pastorius said...

You know what REALLY pisses me off about the Olympics. So many of those athletes who are winning medals for other countries

FUCKING TRAINED IN THE UNITED STATES.

In some cases, they are considered citizens of other countries, even though they are apparently also American citizens.

For instance, there is a Zimbabwaen female swimmer who was born in Anaheim, CA, went to school in Ohio, and is now winning medals for Zimbabwe.

This is complete bullshit.

The other countries pay their athletes, drug their athletes, use our facilities, etc. and then they "win" medals.

Fucking China is taking care of the monitoring of drug abuse.

What does that tell you about all their athletes.

I remember a couple of years back, it had been determined that a sizable number of Chinese female athletes didn't even qualify as women, when analyzed hormonally.

This is all crap.

If the playing field was even, we'd be winning in almost everything, just as we already win in almost everything everywhere in the world.

Pastorius said...

You know what REALLY pisses me off about the Olympics. So many of those athletes who are winning medals for other countries

FUCKING TRAINED IN THE UNITED STATES.

In some cases, they are considered citizens of other countries, even though they are apparently also American citizens.

For instance, there is a Zimbabwaen female swimmer who was born in Anaheim, CA, went to school in Ohio, and is now winning medals for Zimbabwe.

This is complete bullshit.

The other countries pay their athletes, drug their athletes, use our facilities, etc. and then they "win" medals.

Fucking China is taking care of the monitoring of drug abuse.

What does that tell you about all their athletes.

I remember a couple of years back, it had been determined that a sizable number of Chinese female athletes didn't even qualify as women, when analyzed hormonally.

This is all crap.

If the playing field was even, we'd be winning in almost everything, just as we already win in almost everything everywhere in the world.

Punditarian said...

And the RUSSIAN women's basketball team is using an AMERICAN player, Becky Hammon!

Unbelievable!

This is what the American coach had to say:


So far, the harshest criticism has come from Anne Donovan, coach of the U.S. women's Olympic basketball team, who all but called Hammon a traitor.

"If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland and you put on a Russian uniform, you are not a patriotic person in my mind," Donovan told the ESPN network earlier this year.

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-olympics-patriotism_rodriguejul27,0,2122993.story

Reliapundit said...

OLYMPICS = BS.

PURE UNADULTERATED BULLSHIT.