More Olympics bashing (sorry, SAL)
Resigned to defeat before the Super Bowl even started, the Seattle Seahawks took the field to "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve -- hardly motivational football music.At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, the Turin officials didn't give countries the opportunity to make such stupid decisions. Instead, they played a random mix of American pop songs from the 1970s and 1980s.
Iran made its entrance to "Funkytown." (They did that, Jon Stewart joked, because "Death-to-Americaville" is not a song yet.) Mongolia came in to "Video Killed the Radio Star."
But those were merely funny and random.
Get this:
Denmark, the nation that enraged the Islamic world when it allowed the Jyllands-Posten newspaper to depict the prophet Muhammad with a bomb under his turban, made its Olympics appearance to "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."
Unfortunately for me, I missed the whole thing by falling asleep on the couch.
2 comments:
Had you been awake at the time, we could have discussed this then, since I noticed it while the event was being broadcast on NBC, not from having Jon Stewart point it out. Poke Poke. :)
Stop. Bashing. The. Olympics.
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