Thursday, April 22, 2010

You tell 'em

Finally, somebody gives former and now late IOC Chief Extortionist Juan Antonio Samaranch the obituary he deserves. Not unexpectedly that person is Charles Pierce:

What we have here is a dead guy who had far too much of a sweet-tooth for actual fascists, who fancied himself royalty, who presided over the single most corrupt institution in the history of organized sports -- and one of the most corrupt institutions ever devised by man, at least since we stopped electing Borgia popes -- until the way that institution did business overflowed so garishly that a command decision was made to transform the International Olympic Committee from a vehicle of international bribery to a vehicle of old-fashioned international crony capitalism.

6 comments:

Montag said...

I'm not surprised at all that NPR rolled out the lilies and the harps for Samaranch, and failed to make mention of his rather strong ties to Franco's fascist movement.

Hell, they were doing their best to rehabilitate the images of Bush and cohort before they'd even left office....

StonyPillow said...

I hope I don't piss off Charles P. Pierce until long after I'm dead.

Poopyman said...

Met Charles at Netroots Nation last summer. A fun guy to talk to, which I suppose is obvious through his writings.

Anyway, I posted an addenda to Monday's "Virginia is for Douchebags" post. It's the text of the AP story here.

Athenawise said...

I stopped being interested in the Olympics when they allowed pros to compete. I remember when athletes who accepted even modest money couldn't enter the games. And, now we have WINTER Olympics and SUMMER Olympics and NATIONAL games and WORLD games and EXTENDED seasons for all sports...

Bread and circuses, hyped rivalries and "heroes" who don't know what real heroism is. What a crock.

pansypoo said...

NPR threw a few mudpiles too.

Olives and Arrows said...

.....the I.O.C.

.....or perhaps more accurately...

ohhh, I see.


*yawn*

yet another corrupt internationalist organization.


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