You just had to bring this up, didn’t you? *sobbing* You KNOW how stunning a profound loss this is to all of us and how as a nation we’ll probably never recover. Yet you couldn’t just let it go for one night! What kind of person does that?!? *slams door and throws self on the bed, weeping wildly*

Is hockey season canceled too, also?

They still play hockey here in ‘Merica?

I thought that was just for them pinko Canucks up north to keep them from wondering what was in the poutine.

Leave president Obama alooone!!11! But… since we were all told he was wasting his time given how the Olympics always run a deficit anyway and features men in spandex and drug users and black men outperforming their white peers, perhaps this was all for the better, no?

Indeed, let Rio suffer while Chicago prospers. That’ll teach Lula and his scantily clad beach bimbos to shape up and join the civilized world.

Now, Jonah Goldberg, if you would, please, a Star Wars metaphor, perhaps, to better articulate the bittersweet feeling of pride in the defeat of others?

True. We all know that when Bush was in the White House, Dallas won the World Series every year. What?

They play hockey in Chicago, but then it is almost in Canada.

Can an alternative Games be sponsored in Chicago—Conservative Republicans vs (um) All The Other Republicans?

Wonder what the decathalon would be like……

Here’s my theory: The IOC considered recent footage of rabid wingnuts with loaded guns at town halls calling Obama Hitler and threatening death and decided it might be better to give the Olympics to a civilized country.

That’s the pitching form of a guy with a good hook shot.

Umm, what, did I miss something? ‘Cos if Obama is going to bring the triumphant 2009 Irish grand slam squad to America to show the yokels how sport is played, I’m all for it.

Otherwise, what’s the point? Unless Hussein X intends to import from baseball’s equally boring cousin the concept of bodyline bowling. I’d be very keen, actually, to see the troglodyte congresspeople face the prospect of serious physical harm each time they go up to bat…

Before the Eighties I paid scant attention to the Olympics. After the Eighties I stopped paying attention to them altogether. I no longer cared about which nation had found the right combination of substances and hyper-specialized training to propel its mutants to victory.

They play hockey here in Pittsburgh, rather well I might add, but the team is made up of socialist Canucks and commie Ruskies, which would probably bother me if I was a wingnut.

The team was recently invited to the White House to celebrate their Stanley Cup victory, and are now probably jinxed by hanging with that big fuckup Obama. The stink of FAILURE is hard to shake off ya know.

I’m totally gonna blame it on Obama if the Pens don’t repeat this year.

No shit. Can you imagine teh crazy and teh stoopid if Chicago had actually gotten the Olympics?

And, I am with DennisSGMM as far as not caring about the Olympics any longer. I still watch them, but it’s not much fun. The last time I watched the swimming competitions, world records were being broken left and right by sometimes a second or more because of the new suits. BORING.

I was surprised that any American city thought they had a chance at all – kinda shows again how insular we dumb amuricans are. While here in the states everyone but DFH’s are apparently just dandy with pretending the last 8 years didn’t happen, the rest of the world is not so forgiving, not to mention getting a visa to get into the damn country is STILL a horrible pain in the ass (and even when you do, you still get jerked around at customs).

That is the pitching form of a guy wearing an armored vest.

The wingnuts mocked Obama’s pitch and raved about Bush’s pitch at the World Series but as they say “go to the tape”. Bush did get a little more air under the ball and it actually reached home plate on the fly but that was mainly because the ball came off this hand at the top of the arc, the ball went so high that it left the camera frame. But the actual delivery was the same awkward 3/4 motion you see with Obama and for the same reason, you could clearly see the armored vest outline.

It was just because 85% of this country was still in that Dear Leader/Commander in Chief mode that would last to and beyond Mission Accomplished that the reichnuts were swooning about how Bush had ‘grooved’ a ’strike’ when in fact it took the arc more typical of a family reunion pickup softball game.

The right truly lives in a world unrestrained by reality, for them the Memory Hole is not a metaphor, I believe they well and truly do have the ability to simply shelve inconvenient memories in a ‘we have always been at war with Eastasia’ kind of way.

You’re not the only one with that theory. Tom Tomorrow wrote:

“Putting aside for the moment that Rio is an excellent choice to host the 2016 games, if I was on the International Olympic Committee, I dunno if I’d be so keen on hosting the Olympics in the America either. I don’t know how much American news the Swiss receive, but if they saw one of the gun-toting mobs of tea baggers holding signs of the President’s face Photoshopped with a Hitler mustache, it probably wouldn’t do much to help them forget that the last time the United States hosted the Summer Olympics, a right-wing domestic terrorist planted a bomb in the middle of the Centennial Olympic Park.”

Entire post (including right wing terrorist Eric Rudolph’s pronouncement here. It’s all about the socialism……

The rumor is that the IOC noticed the Obama Hussein took over the Auto Industry and the Banking Industry like Hitler did. Now he was trying to have the games just like Hitler did in Berlin. Also he wanted to prove that Black ahtletes are better just like Hitler did. This is what Jonah Goldberg told me.

Actually, I’d like to see a Biathlon in that case. If Dick Cheney is any gauge of how this bunch of Rambo wannabes shoot, I’m figuring the conservative body count will be in the triple digits.

If Dick Cheney is any gauge

12, I believe.