DISQUS

kladinvt · 1 year ago

The Olympics have been reduced to a 2 week long 'informercial' for China, the Olympic corporate sponsors & those athletes scrambling for corporate sponsorships.
The Olympic ideal in 2008 = the corporate bottom line. Nothing more, nothing less.

intotheabyss81 · 1 year ago

Any chance we can get them to keep 'em?

smiling_dog · 1 year ago

It's about time somebody did it.

Indigo · 1 year ago

If we ask nicely, will they arrest Bush and turn him over to the Hague?

im_nobody · 1 year ago

I'd say it's one of the smarter moves China has made recently; however, "Indigo" (posting a few minutes ago) got it right. China got the wrong plane.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

China must be short of stenographers.

ComradeRutherford · 1 year ago

This is why the IOC gave the Olympics to China - to reward the brutal regime for it's inhumane actions. That's also why Bush loves the Chinese so much, isn't Bush there to get more tips on how to torture the innocent?

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

This whole shit pile is about cheap crap sent to US big box stores. End of discussion.

S_in_Tokyo · 1 year ago

Getting treated like everyone else? Oh, how sad! It must have been such a trial!

heathwood · 1 year ago

Does any one care that Russia is attacking Georgia?
WWIII?

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

I'm sure Rice's incompetent ass is going to do something.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

who cares This would only be news if they were all beat to death on the tarmac. I get nothing from this.

brian · 1 year ago

At least Bush and Co. won't be able to spill their daily propaganda until they are released. Onto more important subjects like ... Britney Spears. What a mess the press in the US has become. There are very few real journalists anymore.

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

We could only hope McCain's barbeque / beer buddies who cover him "journalitically" would have the same thing happen - only make it permanent detention.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

And they detained them ON THE PLANE...
Usually your detained in an area in the airport NOT on the plane.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

well who cares

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

The Chinese detain just about everybody they find "suspicious". It's almost as though the ever paranoid Dick Cheney is running China in his spare time. I think they are really just trying to show "who's in charge"; they love flexing that muscle. Who gives a shit, really? They can all choke to death on the air for all I care.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Now, now let's not overreact, America. We have plenty of nice low prices this weekend at the store! --Walmart Spokesman

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

Wow, I'm really agitated. Something's going to happen. Another false flag.

Õ¿Õ · 1 year ago

They're about to do something. It's feeling really heavy right now.

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

It's really too bad about the Olympics. I used to enjoy certain events (I still like those events, just not when they're at the Olympics). Now, it's all about the corporate sponsors and the politics of the hosting country. I equate this to watching network television endlessly, one constant commercial to promote what THEY want to promote. Who needs it? I hope the athletes do well in their respective events; they've worked hard and they deserve it, however, I simply cannot abide being a spectator.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

Many years ago a TV exec buddy of my uncle's told me that programming was merely there to fill space between commercials. They in fact really did not care much about what kind of programming they had. Ratings mattered but not much else. He said they would tape grass growing if people would watch it and buy the crap they were selling.

jiminportlandoregon · 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply - I am not at all surprised to hear your comments. The thing that probably bothers me the most is how long it took ME to understand what THEY were REALLY doing - it's all about greed.

Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas · 1 year ago

It is all about a quarterly rate of return on the stock. America can see no
further than the next fiscal quarter. And thus we are in the sewer we are
in.

HereinDC · 1 year ago

btw, did you know the birds nest stadium (Swiss) and the aquatic center cube (Australian) were NOT designed by a chinese company?

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

so what are WE going to do about it? Bu$hco. has sold us to China over the Iraq war. What are we going to do about it? Thanks Republicans.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

And the White House Press Corp. helped him.

Let them rot.

jescot · 1 year ago

Can you blame the Chinese really for detainig the White House Press Corp? From an outsiders prespective they just look like his propanda department anyway and perhaps it was a planned get together to share notes.

KarenMrsLloydRichards · 1 year ago

Well, it's not like they don't deserve it, just a leetlle beet....

eagleye · 1 year ago

Given that we do torture and detain thousands of people without a trial, we're not in a great position to point out the shortcomings of the Chinese. Because of Bush/Cheney/Rove/Gonzales, we've lost our seat in the Ivory Tower.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Hey China!

Executing them would really show that you're tough!

Go ahead! Do it!

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Dear Chinese officials.

I feel it is my duty to inform you that the following so-called "White House Correspondents" are actually American spies.


Associated Press
Ben Feller
Jennifer Loven
Deb Riechmann
Mark Smith (Radio)

Christian Broadcasting Network
Melissa Charbonneau

Fox News (Note: These two are extremely dangerous...do not apprehend!)
Bret Baier
Wendell Goler

National Review
Byron York

Wall Street Journal
John D. McKinnon

Washington Times
Joseph Curl
Jon Ward

mikep · 1 year ago

Everybody has a right to their own opinion, but personally I find your bigotry towards and hatred of the Chinese to be quite out of hand. They may be human rights abusers, but not nearly as much as the Democrats and Republicans. In any case, all you're doing is embarrassing the US, and confirming the opinions of those who say that Americans are uncivilized thugs with no sense of manners or decency. Nobody in the real world takes American criticisms of human rights seriously since everybody knows that the US is the worst human rights abuser in the world. As an American I think it's great that the Chinese have the Olympics. I'm also grateful for the lower prices they have made possible on so many goods, and for the opportunity to buy my stuff from sources other than American corporations, who are mostly warmongers.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Let me guess:

Nader voter?

Topher · 1 year ago

Everyone does have a right to their opinion, but I have to disagree with yours. I'm not saying anything about the stature of the USA in the eyes of those who monitor and care about notions and the legalities of international human rights (and I agree it is significantly diminished), but that does not prevent criticism of a country that jails, tortures and "re-educates through labor" political dissidents, artists, whistle-blowers, returned immigrants and those who believe in non-state sponsored religions, rounds women up and forces them to have abortions (even if they're 8 months pregnant) if they are in violation of the one-child policy, engages in forcible sterilization of men and women, opens fire on Tibetian monks and demonizes the Dali Lama, and controls (or at least attempts to) where every memeber of their societly lives and works. Don't take my word for it. All you have to do is read the country reports from either Amnesty International or the Department of State. We (and by "we" I mean the Bush administration, which is on the way OUT) have our issues, but they will be fixed and attoned. The average Chinese citizen has no such hope, no such recourse and no other options. Not to mention China's aid to nefarious elements and repressive regeimes throughout the world (Darfur, Iran, Nigeria). If you think all of this is on par with our political system, I'd suggest you don't have a full picture of what China really is. We have the ability, the system and the right to change our discraceful behavior. China wouldn't even consider it because it is not even feasible for their system of government.

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

Dear Chinese Officials.

Forgot to mention these spies also:

ABC
Ann Compton
Martha Raddatz

They are very dangerous.

Rob Mule · 1 year ago

I wonder if the Chinese take torture requests???
Like, "Could you please electrify Bret Baier and David Gregory's balls?"

Bush_Bites · 1 year ago

LOL!

HelenaMontana · 1 year ago

Well, it's not like the White House press corps is going to anything other than their normal stenography, and they can probably do that from detention as well as anywhere else.

I think this happened because Bush trash-talked the Chinese both before he left for the Olympics and after he arrived there. Now, I'm not saying that the Chinese are good guys, but common rules of hospitality and diplomacy dictate that you don't insult your hosts. This may be the Chinese way of indicating displeasure--not that it's going to be any skin off of Bush's back because he's not personally being inconvenienced and he doesn't like the press anyway, even as sycophantic and adoring of him as they are.

It would have been far better for Bush to have just stayed away from the Olympics and sent somebody else--Rice, for instance. She's not doing anything useful.

jr · 1 year ago

free trade agreements at work

Mike_G · 1 year ago

Most of them have been acting like prisoners of the White House with Stockholm Syndrome for the past seven years, so it's really not much of a change for them.

dreadpiraterobert · 1 year ago

Hmm... I wonder how many of them were planning on visiting one of the many forced labor camps the CCP runs... some of them spitting distance from various Olympic venues! (Map here: http://www.humanrightstorch.org/news/guide-to-o...)

Or how many of them were going to take a little side trip to one of the massive prisons housing political dissidents, Christians, Falun Dafa practitioners, etc. that just "happen" to be next door to human organ harvesting facilities.

I'll bet none of them. But that doesn't stop the Chinese government from making sure!

devis1 · 1 year ago

Communist thugs detain corporate fascist thugs. What's the problem?

cowboyneok · 1 year ago

The Chinese torture people? Detain them without trial? My God, they sound like America under the Bu$h regime!!!

aibi · 1 year ago

Begs the question: who did GW meet with or where did he go that he didn't want the White House press corps to know about?