The Olympic Sham

[RednBlue11]

Rick Reilly wrote a great article detailing everything fake about these Olympics

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story ... d=tab1pos1

[PonyTime]

That is GREAT! Thanks for posting . . .

[OC Mustang]

Agreed. Fantastic post. I did my junior seminar thesis in History on Liu Binyan (now deceased), a Chinese dissident who went to live with his wife in New Jersey (Princeton U.) after he was thrown out of China the THIRD time. He made some constructively critical writing about the need to root out corruption, but he made the party officials look like chumps, so they gave him the boot as 'punishment'. The trouble was, everybody, and I mean everybody knew that Binyan was a true Marxist...a purist who didn't believe in corrupt people no matter what the system of government. He got a pass (i.e. wasn't shot) because they knew he was a Mao-kind of guy. The last time, they had built up enough of a case they could simply say 'leave and don't come back on pain of death'.

By and large, for all their largesse about being Communist, they really aren't. They are the ultimate in pragmatic, even to totalitarian when it serves their purpose. But the bottom line is, regardless of -ism, is that when the Chinese are embarrassed, it is an unrecoverable character flaw. And they either hide it, shoot it, or send it out of the country if it embarrasses them. Only in extraordinary situations do they actually make institutional changes.

And even then, it's usually because it is worked in from the outside.
Never when they are embarrassed.

[ThadFilms]

Too bad they couldn't get the Cowboys Sham, too, huh?

[smupony94]

Too bad they couldn't get the Cowboys Sham, too, huh?

booooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[MrMustang1965]

Shamu the Killer Whale

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

Or Sam The Sham

[MrMustang1965]

[03Mustang]

[smupony94]

Made in Germany not China

[MrMustang1965]

[quote="MrMustang1965"]nm

[smupony94]

Composer Says Beijing Olympic Committee Ripped Him Off

Peter Breiner, who arranged more than 200 national anthems for the 2004 Olympics, has accused the Beijing Olympic Committee of stealing those works for this year's Games. He says he is "100 percent sure" that his arrangements are being played at medal ceremonies -- and the Washington Post's culture critic couldn't agree more.

"First, the Slovak orchestra is much better than the Beijing orchestra (pictured above), which suffers from shrill upper-string sound," writes Philip Kennicott, of the Post. "More to the point, the Beijing orchestra is using Breiner's ideas so blatantly that it would be accused of plagiarism if its arrangers submitted their orchestration as original work in any respectable conservatory. It isn't just the rockets' red glare: Breiner's basic conception of the whole piece has been copied."

[03Mustang]

Composer Says Beijing Olympic Committee Ripped Him Off

Peter Breiner, who arranged more than 200 national anthems for the 2004 Olympics, has accused the Beijing Olympic Committee of stealing those works for this year's Games. He says he is "100 percent sure" that his arrangements are being played at medal ceremonies -- and the Washington Post's culture critic couldn't agree more.

"First, the Slovak orchestra is much better than the Beijing orchestra (pictured above), which suffers from shrill upper-string sound," writes Philip Kennicott, of the Post. "More to the point, the Beijing orchestra is using Breiner's ideas so blatantly that it would be accused of plagiarism if its arrangers submitted their orchestration as original work in any respectable conservatory. It isn't just the rockets' red glare: Breiner's basic conception of the whole piece has been copied."

Copyright violations in China?? No F'ing way!

[03Mustang]

Made in Germany not China

You know the Germans make good stuff

[ThadFilms]

Made in Germany not China

You know the Germans make good stuff

Hahaha. Well played.

Camera guy, get in here....