As if we needed more...a few days ago Glenn Beck told his astute viewers that we should fight against having the Olympics in Chicago because we can't afford it. In fact, he said, Vancouver "lost a billion dollars when they had the Olympics." Yeah, uh, when was that again Glenn?
2010.
What? 2010 is in the FUTURE, as in, the Vancouver Olympics HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET.
So seriously, how much fact checking could Mr. Beck possibly have done while writing the script for his show? How the fuck does he gather information, by listening to schizophrenics talk to themselves on the subway? Even Jon Stewart has a room full of fact-checkers, and he's on a fake news show!
We're getting the Olympics and it's going to be awesome.
UPDATE:
We didn't get the Olympics. Oh well. Woulda been awesome. I guess it makes sense that Rio gets it, since South America has never hosted an Olympics (never? didn't realize that.)
This question did come up in class though - will the "Summer Olympics" be during the Brazilian summer, which is our winter, or during the Brazilian winter, which is summer for Europe and North America? I would supppose their winter is still as warm as a regular summer, and probably better for the athletes than the super hot, humid Brazilian summers. Who knows?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment