The Olympics are underway - don't miss the opening ceremonies, it's the one thing on TV that doesn't get a rerun. While I typically don't like my regularly scheduled programming to be preempted, I do love me some Olympics. Operative word here being 'some.' However, Olympic coverage will be shoved down our throats, as if we were being raised for fois gras.
While I am excited to see some of the events, I am a little disappointed in the American news channels glazing over the atrocities being committed in the name of Olympic peace and love (about 1 million people displaced). Even so, I have a feeling the controversies will increase and the threat of 'bad things' happening is pretty high. I feel like this is the part where the bully gets the lead in the high school play, and the drama kids use it as an opportunity to get their revenge. So Matt Lauer and Bob Costas better be prepared to switch their fluff-mode reporting off pretty quickly.
Me? I’ll be watching some movies and trying to catch the “off” sports (ping pong? I’m there)…all while nervously awaiting a special report to preempt my preempted programming.
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