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NBC's Beijing Olympic Ratings Called A
'Disaster' For Network: 'I'm Stunned ...
There Is Karma In The World'

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Posted By: Black Conservative Voice, 2/22/2022 5:51:19 AM

A sobbing Russian figure skater berated by one of her coaches for a poor routine. Grim-looking cooling towers in the background of acrobatic snowboard jumps. Diplomatic boycotts. Half-empty stands. Announcers covering the games from Connecticut. It all played out in a host country engaged in human rights atrocities that was also the origin site of a global pandemic. For NBC, it wasn't exactly Olympic glory in China.

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Couldn’t have happened to a nicer Marxist country. I've watched at least part of every Olympics since Mexico City. (Don't recall if I watched any of 1980 Moscow.) Some years I recorded every hour, and watched it all. But I did not watch one minute of this one... not on TV, not online. And it was not difficult for me at all --- I did not have the desire to watch. So yes, I DO think the "brand of a once-unifying event for tens of millions of people is permanently tainted." Unless there are some dramatic changes, I don't think I'll watch future games, either.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Petronius 2/22/2022 6:08:34 AM (No. 1079066)
Didn't watch one minute of it. NBC and the Chinese Communist Party can go to Hell.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jalo1951 2/22/2022 6:14:14 AM (No. 1079072)
I watched the movie "Miracle" with Kurt Russell instead. Now that was an Olympics to remember. This one, not so much. I doubt I ever watch again unless a lot changes in the world. I feel bad for the athletes but there's nothing I can do about that.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Rather Read 2/22/2022 6:36:48 AM (No. 1079095)
My first Olympics was when I watched the 1960 summer games from Rome and watched the Mighty Wilma Rudolph run like a gazelle to win two gold medals. I loved it! I watched most of the games until 1968 when Tommie Smith and John Carlos did the black power thing on the podium and then the Munich massacre of 1972 messed them up badly. There have been moments of greatness and sheer joy for me, but this year I ignored them all. In a just world, China would be shunned.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Rinktum 2/22/2022 6:39:00 AM (No. 1079097)
The Olympics has for all intents and purposes committed suicide. They strayed from their founding ideals and ended up with nothing. When the IOC awarded China the games, I knew it was over. Add to that monumental mistake cheating and treatment of athletes who tested positive for covid and I knew the whole thing was a farce. I am sad for the athletes but not enough to have kept watching the disaster. The essence of the games has disappeared under the yoke of political correctness. Have you noticed every aspect of life was better before the left decided to run everything?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: The Remnants 2/22/2022 6:46:04 AM (No. 1079103)
#4 The left does not like order. They thrive in chaos, but no one else does.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: The Remnants 2/22/2022 7:02:49 AM (No. 1079113)
Good lesson learned by the powers-that-be that an awful lot of Americans still love their country.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: BeatleJeff 2/22/2022 7:04:00 AM (No. 1079114)
I'll admit to watching a little of it. I mostly watched curling until I got fed up with the US teams constantly choking. The main problem with this Olympics is that it was dull. Too many X Games type events, too many nameless, faceless athletes giving us little reason to cheer for them, too many doped up Russian athletes. And the time difference with the games being played halfway around the world certainly hurt the ratings. Usually I'm kinda sad when an Olympics comes to an end. This time I didn't really care.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Jethro bo 2/22/2022 7:10:30 AM (No. 1079120)
And since this marginal sports in the US have become the wokess of the woke, why watch? Of course not a word about that leftist fad. I breifly saw bits and poise of the games when I past a TV in a public setting. Not once, not once did I see a male sport. NBC might, just might consider trying to attract half of its potential audience by including male events next time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 2/22/2022 7:28:28 AM (No. 1079137)
Long gone are the days when the Olympics was a competition among amazing athletes who were held to standards of behavior and health. It was a season of life....like when my kids were playing softball and learning gymnastics. It is gone. Remember it fondly and move on.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: MSUDoc 2/22/2022 7:31:57 AM (No. 1079140)
I watched some and always admire the athletes. It’s nice to cheer for Americans (unless they are the US women’s soccer team or that creep that skied for the Chinese).
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Reply 11 - Posted by: udanja99 2/22/2022 7:37:02 AM (No. 1079146)
I haven’t watched since they started allowing professional athletes to compete.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Paperpuncher 2/22/2022 7:47:22 AM (No. 1079162)
#11. They have always had professional athletes since the beginning of the Cold War. All of the athletes from the Soviet Union, it’s satellite states and China were professionals.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 2/22/2022 7:51:54 AM (No. 1079168)
It's become nothing but a commercialized, money-making package for nbc and others. McDonald's took that big-time in Atlanta with the elevated arches outside the stadium that were in conspicuous view as the athletes marched in. Many games ago, I grew tired of the announcers trying to sound "live" while dubbing their commentary into much of the video.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: PostAway 2/22/2022 8:12:46 AM (No. 1079183)
The bloom is off the rose. The Olympics have been corrupted for at least half a century but holding them in China after COVID and other serious oI scandals only underscored that fact to the point that it overshadows every athletic endeavor. Covering women’s events seemingly exclusively felt forced and inauthentic. Like the World’s Fair the Olympics have seen their best days. And, the Gu-Gu doll skiing for China was disgraceful no matter her righteous-sounding rationalizations. The fact that she will attend one of the most sought-after universities in the U.S. after her public dump on our country is sickening. Her coyness about citizenship is laughable. China does not recognize dual citizenship and to ski as a Chinese woman she would have had to renounce her American citizenship. Her actions belie believing that she would have insisted otherwise.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: seamusm 2/22/2022 8:19:05 AM (No. 1079190)
There is only so much abuse we will take - at some point there are just too many Americans who realize what has been done to us. The Canadian truckers are only a piece of the rebellion. Not wasting our time on Olympic Follies or maybe not watching ANY of the professional sports whores like Lebron. He could float from one end of the court to the other (which he thinks he does) and I still would not watch.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: broken01 2/22/2022 8:40:50 AM (No. 1079213)
I watched the Laff- A- Lympics on the Boomerang cartoon channel. These games with contestants like Scooby Doo, Yogi Bear and Dick Dastardly seemed to get better ratings than the NBC Chicom Olympics. Serves NBC and China right.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 2/22/2022 8:49:42 AM (No. 1079225)
I quit watching the Olympics a few cycles ago when the coverage got so chopped up - 10 minutes of one sport, 10 minutes of commercials, then switch to another sport for 10 minutes, 10 minutes of commercials, switch to a third sport, and so on. I'm not interested enough for that. I'd tune across the coverage occasionally as I was channel surfing, but never stayed more than a few minutes (at most until the commercials started). I'm done with China and political correctness.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Laotzu 2/22/2022 9:05:53 AM (No. 1079234)
It was a trifecta of problems -- hosted by one of the last communist regimes in the world, new faces kept out by athletes who have all gone one Olympics too many (Shuster, White, Shiffrin . . . ) but whom the network thinks we should worship, and wokism up the wazoo. Seriously, Shuster carrying the flag? And then we can't see the athletes faces at the Opening Ceremonies because half the screen is Shuster's family sitting on the couch at home?
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Reply 19 - Posted by: columba 2/22/2022 9:52:07 AM (No. 1079298)
the writers says the "there is Karma in the world." Does he not know that God exists?
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Reply 20 - Posted by: ROLFNader 2/22/2022 10:22:21 AM (No. 1079318)
Don't wanna bogue anyone's high any more than this article -but I heard a live interview this morning on local radio with a high school female wrestler on her way to our state's (MI) wrestling championship this weekend. Was floored when I heard her describing what it is like to wrestle against boys her age. Call me old-fashioned if you must- but that is just Wrong!
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Reply 21 - Posted by: coldoc 2/22/2022 10:56:15 AM (No. 1079370)
Woke leads to broke. Not a new concept.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: MDConservative 2/22/2022 11:08:02 AM (No. 1079384)
Does it occur that the dog just doesn't like the dog food being advertised? The Olympics were great political fodder...1936, 1980 and 1984 come to mind. Those had nazis, commies and the good guys involved (or boycotting). Who doesn't like China, shoemakers to the world? The Olympics became a cash cow as the CIS wasn't the Soviet Union and we were supposed to like the former commies and encourage their entry to the developed world of the West. The athletes became walking billboards for equipment manufacturers and fashion houses. The US threw big bux at the USOC when our national performance wasn't #1. (Can't wait for the same after the Peking, er Beijing results.) And taxpayers were happy. The worm has turned. The Olympics is joining other professional sports in greated public disinterest. Too bad for NBC, but they have a contract. The good news is that by then everyone will be watching on their smartphones...now, if they can only measure that viewership!
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Reply 23 - Posted by: JHHolliday 2/22/2022 11:27:33 AM (No. 1079405)
I realize that several factors are involved...wokeness, etc. but I used to love the Olympics. Sometime in the seventies, I just lost interest. I wonder if being an old coot has something to do with it? As someone also mentioned, the overwhelming number of commercials makes it way too much trouble to watch. One of our local news station has gotten that way during their news hour. Commercial after commercial from ambulance chasing attorneys and people wanting to buy your home, so they can resell it. Then a short news story followed by more commercials and finally two minutes of weather.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Hugh Akston 2/22/2022 1:02:45 PM (No. 1079491)
#23 - Which is one reason I don't watch any commercial TV...and I mean any...and only watch, even then rarely, a series on Netflix, Prime, Hulu, etc, like Reacher, Bosch, Ryan. I've probably seen 12 hours of TV this month and that is above average. Zero is not uncommon.
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