Even those who detest Mark Steyn have to admit that he’s pretty darn hilarious. From his recent column on the 2012 Olympics comes this gem:
On the whole, the residents of that great city would rather the honor of hosting the world’s most disruptive sporting event had gone to some joint that needs the publicity more — Alma Ata, or Ouagadougou, or Oakland. In 21st-century London, traffic moves at fewer miles per hour than it did before the internal-combustion engine was invented without the added complication of fleets of Third World thug bureaucrats and the permanent floating crap game of transnationalist freeloaders being dumped on its medieval street plan. Nevertheless, having drawn the short straw of hosting the games, Londoners felt it a point of honor that the city be able to demonstrate the ability to ferry minor globalist hangers-on from their favorite whorehouse in Mayfair to the Olympic Village in the unfashionable East End in time for the quarter-finals of the flatwater taekwondo.
As usual he hit it on the head. I don’t even watch let alone listen to the stream of BS that the media put out.
‘Hangers-on’ is a polite description of the leeches that suck taxpayers money to feed these events. If some idiot has the cash to fly in to watch a soccer match then he should pay the tab for the whole cost.
All this said I would never miss a Team Canada hockey game!
Steyn’s column is good,as always, but I found the article on Olympic political correctness by John Fund,at the same link,even more interesting.
It seems the usual PC crowd are at work bullying anyone who says anything that could be remotely construed as “racist” or insensitive,and a couple of athletes have been sent home for making remarks not in the Olympic spirit.
As Fund points out,some of the Countries have such dismal human rights records,the whole thing smacks of hypocrisy.
Not surprising, a German woman was asked to resign from the Olympic team because her boyfriend is a member of a “far right” political Party in Germany,while not a mention is made of any athletes who may have far Left political Party affiliations,like the entire Cuban and Chinese teams.
dmorris, that is all part of the UN agenda to make the new soviet man.
Next to the UN,the Olympics are the biggest leeches on humanity known.They serve only one purpose in modern times.And when somebody figures that purpose out,please let me know.
I don’t have any use for the Olympics either. Massive waste of time and money. Montreal only paid off its Olympic debt from 1976 a few years ago.
As to turning London into a giant theme park, well, that’s pretty much what Britain is these days, one giant theme park.
Steyn – the man who tells the truths that can’t be told. He’s on the money again in his take of the demented spectacle of the London Olympic farce.
The show was lowbrow political marketing and fantasy propaganda from a nation in decline both economically and politically – a whistling in the dark moment – or as Steyn puts it; a last hurrah for a nation whose power and prominence is waning.
“They serve only one purpose in modern times.And when somebody figures that purpose out,please let me know”.
~Justthinkin
Slight of hand on a global scale.
These great sporting events exist to divert the masses from how badly they are governed.
Bread and Circuses, citizen.
The ancient Olympic games were a pagan abomination held to glorify the idols of the pagan Greeks, who, of course, never managed to defend them from Rome’s armies.
The modern games are an abomination cooked up by a French aristocrat, held to satisfy his own ego, and held every four years since 1896 to satisfy the egos of local tyrants, communist and liberal alike. They rarely succeed in fooling anybody but themselves. The Montreal Games were only held at all because Jean Drapeau wanted the chance to prove that Montreal was still the metropolis of Canada, in spite of his spending a lifetime driving it into the ground. All he succeeded in doing was bringing the Parti Quebecois to power and giving Nicolae Ceausescu a propaganda coup in Nadia Comaneci.
It wasn’t even as if Montreal hadn’t more than its share of enormous monuments to French Canadian vanity already. This much I’ll give to Alfred “Brother Andre” Bessette, even he never tried to beat the money for his abomination on Monut Royal out of Protestant and Jewish taxpayers.
Christians glorify God by fearing him and keeping his commandments. Pray for the day when mass games are an unmourned memory even in North Korea. In the meantime, leave mass games to the cults of idols and demons from whence they came.
Fun fact: Montreal’s Olympic Park is one of the very few places on earth where the flags of the Socialist Republic of Romania, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the German Democratic Republic are still suffered to fly in public. Let he who is intelligent interpret this.
Dick Slater at August 7, 2012 12:15 PM
Pretty much……..
I must nitpick with Steyn’s “its medieval street plan”…….that street plan was incinereated (for the most part) in the Great Fire….The current plan dates from late Renaisance architects(such as Cristopher Wren).
In the aftermath of the Blitz, a great opportunity was lost to modernize the street plan.
Holding the Olympics in London, was non-the-the-less a communications blunder.
Paris, France on the other hand is the legacy of Napolean Buonopartes architects who renouvated Paris street plan (and sewage system) The broad boulavards were to facilitate rapid movement of troops(especially cavalry) to maintain order…not traffic but….unintended consequences.
The ancient Olympic Greek games used to march their young men and women down the street naked to show off the beauty of their bronze smeared olive oil sculptured bodies.
You know,
the ones cast in cold dusty marble now on display at the art museums with green palm leaves stretched across their crotches.
Anyway…
London is too dignified to allow such bodily displays,
excepting the American Women’s Beach Volleyball Gold Medal Competition.
Watching those middle aged women run, jump up and down the sand courts with nothing on but Bra and Panties,
made my eyes fill with more blood-shoots than a good stiff pint of Wooden Barrel,
Steel Strapped,
Canadian Crown Royal Limited Edition Whiskey.
NBC should post warnings in the future-
‘Olympic Women’s Beach Volleyball’
Viewers Beware,
some content not suitable for pubic viewing.
Probably couldn’t be done, Sasquatch. By 1945 there’s far too much underground infrastructure to be readily moved. This wasn’t a problem in 1665.
When will NBC or CTV air the Shooting Events in Prime Time?
The IOC does not support a Political Agenda at the Olympics, but that is false as the PC (anti Gun whores) do everything to not cover Shooting..
We (Republicans) have to start playing hard ball some time, why not help NRA boycott the Olympics..
Just saying!
Wow, all the white racists banned from the Olympics this year, and all the touching Third World success stories, it could never be better!
Aside from the little black child soldier that won his way into our hearts and minds, I believe there was a little black quadriplegic girl from Kenya that couldn’t make the 100 yard sprint qualifiers, without more American donations.
Thank god we’ve routed out all the blond white racists girls who twittered racial jokes. I heard one even volunteered to quit, because as it turns out her boyfriend had some alleged ties to a white neo-Nazi party in Germany. Why didn’t they cut her legs off?
A white East European guy got off lucky with a $5,000 EU fine for allegedly giving the Nazi salute to a black athlete from the spectator stands. Why didn’t they hang him?
Damned good games to be sure.
Phillip: How right you are about shooting events. Even in the Winter Olympics, it is rare that biathalon is shown.
Pure hilarity. Pure Mark Steyn.
To be sure, Osumashi Kinyobe.
I’ll be referring to syncronized swimming as ‘flatwater taekwondo’ forevermore.
Steyn: “… my old friend Boris Johnson, now and somewhat improbably the mayor of London (and even more incredibly Britain’s prime minister–in–waiting) …”
In this case, Steyn has an excellent opportunity to ask Johnson, when he becomes PM, to rid the U. K. of the political correctness that has sprung up under Labour since 1997, ASAP.
Yes, London was rebuilt after the Great Fire, but the street layout changed very little. It’s substantially the same as it was in medieval times.