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Hey Rick! Sorry you don't like what I said before. I thought I was a hoot! I sure am enjoying the repub's getting thier a**'s handed to them on a platter! Oh and I don't think I showed the world what an idiot I am. Only a couple of people are stopping by this site and they leave when they find out what type of people are on here. I am just having a little fun on my down time! Love ya Rick!!!!!

It seems as if this is a republican site I must have stepped into. Forgive if I spelled wrong as I have MS. But I sure don't expect you to care! I think Obama may actually care and win!!!! If he really deosn't care I don't want him to win. How much more real is that?

someone commented earlier on the gymnast judging... i had heard that they changed the rules in judging and it did fit the chineese better. it would appear that they were able to do this sucessfully, i mean with the underage girls and everything else. id say china cheated really well, and almost didnt get caught. from the begining it was a sham, a hoax. the fireworks were digitally created for those watching tv, the girl singing wasnt even the real singer....the end......you cant trust it

All of you are trying so hard to sound like you know what you're talking about, yet lack enough education, intelligence or work ethic to actually look at what you wrote, fix the bad spellings, fix the grammar, finish sentences that don't end, etc. Show us you take some care with what you write and you'll show us some thought went into your screed.

Janie you just showed the entire planet what a total moron you are!

It is really sad to see so many posters profess opinions about so much when in reality they have so little real knowledge of which they speak and waste so many electrons proving it.

Under Bush there have been ZERO internment camps. The greatest suspension of civil liberties came from FDR. A liberal (meaning socialist) democrat party POS.

My apologies for the triple-tautology (socialist and democrat party and POS).

Perhaps Mr Campbell would detail all those things he wished to do that the evil Bush administration has prevented him from doing. The fact that he seems to have no fear of posting his opinions on a public website shows his post is mostly narcissistic posturing. The left, on the other hand, has passed laws which prevent the following actions:Selling your home to whomever you want. hiring and firing by your own criteria, opting out of the social security system, owning your own retirement account under the social security system, using the light bulb of your choice after 2012. Choice, it seems for liberals, is only about killing unborn children.
We should be concerned, however, not only about Chinese abridgment of fundamental rights, but also about European and Canadian attacks on fundamental rights. Most of Europe and Canada have abrogated freedom of speech over the last couple of decades. In those countries stating an opinion can result in prosecution, fines and imprisonment. All, in Orwellian fashion, under the guise of human rights commissions. No doubt, liberals looks on these prosecutions as models for "change" in an Obama administration.

"Recent research conducted by the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet suggests that, despite their age, children suffer similar treatment. One interviewee, for example, a 12-year-old girl who was detained at a local police station for carrying a friend's religious writings to her home town of Lhokga, described being beaten with sticks and shocked with cattle prods during interrogation." Now you see why they have excellent young gymnasts!

Wow, accusing McCain of lying about the houses. He did not forget or lie. He honestly answered that he did not know because he was unsure about how many houses his wife owned. He does not own any. Obama does a shady deal with a convicted felon who was one of his biggest fund raisers and want you to forget about that. Wow! This article was about the Chinese government (loved by the Dems and supporters of the Dems) and the news media and you turn it into a McCain thing. You must be nervous.

Baby, it is what it is. The disaster of a torch relay around the World and the Olympics are what they are. If the IOC can't keep a real fingeron the ages of little 9 years old girls what can it do?

I love the way liberals use every opportunity to trash their own country and belittle people they disagree with. Then they kiss the rear end of people who would throw them into a re-education camp faster than you can say, inalienable rights or just make inane statements about people who are old enough to know the difference between freedom and totalitarianism.

While Janie and Tom are idiots, I support their right to freely express their asinine ascertains. After all, we're Americans. We're used to saying what we think, even if we are simply regurgitating the same old tripe that has been promulgated by the left in this country. Do I think it’s O.K. for our country to investigate the financials of foreign nationals or even wire tap them when they are making international calls. I’ve got no problem with that. How many attacks have occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11. Uh, that would be zero. Up until a year ago, the Dems were arguing that the war was unwinable and that the surge would never work. That’s because Dems are invested in finding fault with the U.S. and are (yes, I said it) unpatriotic. Do we bash flag burning, gay marriage, etc. because we’re zealots. No, we’re just expressing our opinion and our right to free speech the same way you are. It’s funny how the left believes they should be heard, but that conservatives should just shut up. By the way, Janie, McCain owns zero houses. They all belong to his rich wife, so he does really keep up with them. But if you would like to talk about presidential candidates wives, I’d sure like to discuss Michelle Obama with you.

By the way, go to http://www.thoseshirts.com to find conservative t-shirts. My favorite is Obama with Mickey Mouse ears.

Free Speech!! Communists and Liberals hate it because it makes them look bad.

The international media has the free right to 'turn on the heat' and scrutenize whatever story they please, good or bad, approved by government or disaproved. So I say, China welcome to the real world.

And stop complaining about the pressure, it sounds like a little kid crying because a bully picked on him. The world can't accept the Chinese 'official' news without question. The media is given the right TO QUESTION. Enjoy the time under the spot light while it lasts.

Criticized the media for negative reporting?????
But, this is what the liberal media does best. Thier own subjective immediacy never follows facts. Booo for the liberal media and negative reporting.

What is with you people comparing Obama to Chinese reporting. What false reporting are you talking about? You should look to your "Leader" the Republican party! They HATED McCain until they realized he was going to be the choice for running for president. Now they downplay all of the STUPID things he says and does. McCain is doing the very best he can. Poor little old man can't hardly do his ABC'S anymore. And he either forgot about how many houses he had, Or lied about them. Either way we are in BIG trouble if we go with that lying/forgetful old man. And the Repub's will be right there to clean up his spills. They have lied about the Bush administration and it's false (OR, "OOPS I forgot to read that bill that came to my desk while I was out boating. Just veto it. Much easier. Hey, look at this big fish I caught Brownie!!! By The way, your doin' a heck of a job!!)EVIL doings for years.

Ricardo, your comment about a Democratic super-majority clearly shows your ignorance. There has been no greater restriction of freedom than that under Republican Bush administration as a response to 9/11. Democrats who have opposed even greater restrictions have been called out as un-American and un-patriotic to try to bully them into acquiescence. Is it not a common Republican theme to bash Democrates for allowing TOO MUCH freedom, i.e., gay marriage, flag burning, right to sue when harmed, etc? Republicans have expanded corporate rights while limiting individual rights to advance their primary support base. And it is individual rights that everyone in complaining about with the Chinese. Get your facts straight.

If you think that China restricts freedom and is full of propaganda, wait until Democrats get a super majority in Congress. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

mao says: shut your mouth or your organs will be harvested...

They just ent to 70 year ld women to a labor camp for one year for asking permission to protest. We know freedom of speech is alive and well.
Oh, 400 Chi-comm murders by the army in Tibet the other day. Families cannot have the bodies back. Sound reasonable.
Keep on buying Walmart. Keep them afloat. The West needs an enemy, real or not.

Even though I do not subscribe to the tenants of the communist government in China. Their efforts to keep the protesters away from the event worked, they kept the focus on the games, and the worlds athletes were able to focus on the sports they work so hard to excel at as opposed to worrying about some element of certain societies from harming them or distracting them from achieving their goals, in the form of medals; (Gold-Silver-Bronze).

These athletes are ambassadors from their respective countries gathered together to not only win at their respective events but to demonstrate even during fierce competition it can be done with style and grace.

China you put on one of the best demonstrations of hosting the games ever. The opening was magnificent, the facilities were superb, and the media coverage was good, even with the these quasi intellectual geopolitical comments interspersed daily.

I say that whomever gets the opportunity to put the games on in the future will have very large shoes to fill.

Congratulations China on your efforts, well done.

It is disgusting how the Western world is kissing the +++ of inhumane totalitarians. Why doesn't the media discuss the big joke of the judging in women's gymnastics to insure that the Chinese would get more gold than Americans?

Chinese officials abhor a free press. They are used to controlling all information. The Olympics weakened their control over information, and the world is seeing them for what they really are -- totalitarian bullies.

What I don't understand is how Sen. Obama can heap praise on these cretins while criticizing the USA for allegedly under-investing in "infrastructure". I'd rather have my freedom than a lot of eye-candy engineering and a lot of eminent domain government mandated infrastructure any day! Furthermore, I'd compare our investment in housing, roads, airports and bridges to any nation on earth, including the worker's paradise of the "People's Republic".

If Sen. Obama loves the Chicoms so much, then I'd encourage him to run for office over in China. We don't need his brand of anti-Americanism here.

Sounds a lot like protests against FOX news and talk radio...

Having been a radio news reporter I'm wondering why someone didn't challenge this person straight by telling him the negativity is the result of what China did and is doing all the press have done is report the truth. If you want a different out come you have to change with the times, All the faking done didn't help and there are still questions about the little girls who claim to be 16.

You cannot and will not control everything. You lie, why would the world believe anything from a communist country?

Command and control does NOT work.

While visiting the New Territories in Kowloon (Hong Kong) while serving in the U.S. Navy, I was riding on a tour bus and listening to the young male tour guide run down American, pretty much Like Messiah Obama did yesterday. Having enough of this spoon fed tripe from this communist dupe, I stood and advised the young punt, a.k.a. Obama mentor, that one more negative comment from him about America and I was personally going to throw his wise ass off the bus.
The rest of the trip was quite and respectfully.
That, quite frankly, is what these meelie mouthed reporters have to do with Chinese who try to stifle their reporting and tell them what to write. Unfortunately, the lemmings these guys are ... that will NEVER happen!

"". . . how little some of the media understand China."

Wang---They Get It!!

These Olympic Games have highlighted to the world as not other recent avenue has the Orwellian character of the Red Chinese government and the nation living under their collective thumbs.

What these cloistered ruling Reds have not yet understood is that the rest of the world is not yet under their control. That eventually may change of course, given the enabling mind set of weak western governments and the greed of the soulless international corporations.

Additionally, the IOC is a corrupt organization which is not to be believed by anyone who wishes to know reality over spin.

GOOD!!! The biased, negative, fear based, drive-bye, mainstream media should get called out more often. They wonder why their ratings suck? Cause they suck! I hope more people become aware and choose to turn them off!!!

"Shiny Happy People" 2008

Your are not alone, China. We all have a strong distaste for our biased media, who prefer to MAKE news instead of report it.

Oh, yes, God forbid we criticize the murdering thugs who run China these days! Blatant cheating in the games, fake 7-year-old singers, murdering monks in the streets, purging Peking of anyone who doesn't meet their need to show those capitalist running dogs the superiority of the Communist way.

China can go fly a kite. The best thing about the Olympics was the world seeing how oppressive and full of lies the Chinese govt is.

Just like the Obama crowd, anybody in the media doesn't tow the company line and they yelp like stuck pigs.

Apparently, the media didn't know that whatever the Chinese Government says is the end of the story. You simply take their words and read them on air to your audience. And you don't need to re-type the press releases.

Hey odd ways if it makes you feel better think of it this way...we are trading a paper dollar for finished products...how much is paper worth? and if that's not enough how about this I can sell you anything The empire state building , Hoover dam, the rockie mountains....but you can't take it anywhere.

So Wang Wei, the chinese VP of the organizing committee is supportive of the chinese govt and is against any negative press. Well, he has an instinct for survival and will live to organize another day. Any other opinion and it would be the last we hear from Wang Wei.

that's right. china got it all wrong. they are just being too nice. all they needed to do is just blame those journalist trouble-makers for sept. 11. then they will have the right to lock them up somewhere and waterboard them (remember, it's not torture.)

The IOC blames the biased media, huh? For the most part the same liberal media that props up the likes of Obama. The media just finally experienced first hand what kind of government China really has. There were too many media outlets, and they were not about the payoff the government and tow the line, like media organizations such as CNN have done historically.

China created their own problems, when they started arresting people who were potential protestors, and blocking Internet sites during the Olympics.

The IOC should be ashamed of awarding China this award. China made not substantial movement in the area of human rights. In fact, China displaced 10's of thousands of people as they built infrastructure for the games. News that the Western media rarely covers.

China is a communist country trying to appear mainstream, they control their peole with threats of death and imprisonment. They have reeducation camps....The city is in dirty and polluted. How can you glorify the chinese,..If they had their way we would all be speaking chinese and prying to Mao Tse Tung..CHINA IS EVIL....Wake up America

R Wilney...do you have any idea how stupid the phrase "Mao-Mart" is? If you had even the slightest understanding of Uncle Mao, you wouldn't have made such a foolish comment. I think at the root of the anti-China talk is a severe feeling of fear in the west, fear of a Chinese-dominated world in the future. Don't worry you fearful anti-communists, it IS going to happen. Your children will certainly live in a world that looks not to the US but to China as global superpower. You are all racist.

"A revolution is not a dinner party."

Screw Tibet.

so everything being printed is true. and after the games more will come out about the so many wrongs China did to get these games and how The IOC made a horrid disgusting decision in 2001 giving the games to these monsters.

The fact that such a lucrative event was awarded to them just 12 years after Tiananmen Square says all you need to know about the IOC's motivations.

Who cares what they say, nobody like China anyway

This is amazing, curse the biased media for giving the IOC a hard time about how China lied and deceived in order to get these games. How dare the media question the censorship, and the human rights abuses of China. This Olympics is a joke I cannot wait until Russia in 2014 where we can finally get a forward thinking and open country with an exemplary view of the world to host the games... oh wait, they probably just had the most money to bribe the IOC.

It truly amazes me to read these comments. On the one hand, these bastions of human liberty rail against the practices of the Communist Chinese. (Myself included) Yet they allow this Administration to hock our Country up to the eyeballs to these tyrants. They blithely consume Chinese sweatshop products, shop at known Chinese outlets like Mao-mart (Wallmart), never even caring about "country of origin" labels. Until we take back our Country from Corporate greed, corrupt administrations and enforce OUR OWN Constitutional laws, Communist China will continue to laugh at us all the way to the bank. I think it may have been Lenin who quipped "Americans will sell anything to anyone including the rope to hang them with". Whomever said it...it appears they were right.

Yes, Wang Wei is right. Media will elbow past a group of 500 people praising anything to get to 2 people who will complain or stage a show. Unfair? Well let's say the Olympics are in the USA and the world Media cover: Kent State, Ruby Ridge, Selma, and the dozens of children burned to death at Waco. So a country representing 1/5 of the world's population has problems. Like we don't?

Have they executed the two little old lady protesters yet? Bet they're never heard from again. Re-education...yeah, right.

FREE TIBET

Well....cry me a polluted river. Welcome to the real world. Deal with it.

China micromanaged this Olympics in order to portray their country as something they are not. The “Lip Synching” child soloist, the lack of protestors in their desiginated protest areas, the failure to make available tickets to events in order to avoid terrorist events, unlawfully using the protector’s of the Law to conviently lockup those who pointed out their government had failed them.

It reminds me of what Ralph Wado Emerson once said, China, “Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.”

Wang Wei says the world doesn't understand China and he is right. The world will when they are looking down the barrel of Chinese guns. Who Yeah then we will all understand our folly.

No dissenting voices allowed! China is perfect. Now quite down or we'll make you disappear.

No dissenting voices aloud! Communist China is perfect! Now quit down.

China doesnt seem to grasp that the rest of the world has rules, and it needs to come to terms with that before it criticizes our reaction to its policies.

Communism as an ideology is dead, so the only way the government can stay in power is to provide economic growth and spectacles like the olympics. These games are not for the world, they're for China to reinforce the illusions on their own citizens. They control the media so it's citizenry cant get the true stories of its attrocities, and they can keep serving them the 'one China' kool aid.

It's the 1936 Games all over again, with Michael Phelps filling in for Jesse Owens and the Red Butchers of Tiannemen Square doubling nicely for the Nazis.

Clearly China is not prepared to be a world power. They have it backwards. China does not understand the global media. they always focus ont he negative..and if you can't get used to that forget about trying to be a superpower. Part of being a global power is being about to take the constant heat. My concern is that they'll get so "hurt" by global critics that they'll respond with force. You have to be bigger than that China if you want to plan on a global stage. Too immature.

The Chinese are forced to use the same 'argument' Goebbels resorted to in an earlier fascist Games. Rather than saying that such criticisms had no basis of truth (which obviously he could not) he simply lashed out at an unarmed press. Is it any wonder that such fools can only stay in power through censorship and maintaining a level of stupidity amongst its subjects? And what saddens me is that I and so many others knew how this would play out whilst the IOC could not see past the corrupt money.

The Chinese seem like a nation of robots. Scary. The media drooled over China and ignored the human rights violations. What are they complaining about? China is the world's worst police state.

If you can't stand the media heat, get out of the kitchen. Geez, so a few protestors detract from the 24/7 fawning that the media have given China. So the thin scab over the drab, polluted "showcase" of Beijing has been scratched off. Message to the Chinese Communist Party: If you want to play in the top echelons of world culture and business, you damn well better be ready to accept civil liberties and people's freedom to create and innovate. If that does not happen, it doesn't matter how many people or factories they have to manufacture knock-offs of products conceived in more advanced, free countries. Without freedoms, the nation will never become a leader in world business. Just look at India for comparison.

Ah!! They have finally figured out that the rest of the world isn't just kowtowing to their perspective.

I was almost beginning to think they were going to make through to the end of the games still not having to acknowledge that noncitizens of China are not afraid of them and don't believe them.