NYT Scrubs Passages Embarrassing to Obama
The umpteenth reason, give or take, that we don’t trust Big Media: these lines have been scrubbed from a New York Times article (h/t Hot Air):
And the prospect of winning was too irresistible. After all, Mr. Obama has already envisioned the day when he could welcome the world to his hometown, never mind that small matter of reelection. “In 2016, I’ll be wrapping up my second term as president,” he told a rally in Chicago in June 2008. “So I can’t think of a better way than to be marching into Washington Park … as president of the United States and announcing to the world: Let the Games begin!”
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“They shouldn’t try to make politics of this,” Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff and a Chicagoan himself, told ABC News. “I think they should take some pride in the U.S.’s win, and you know, we’ll make sure they get some good seats once Chicago does host the games.”
These passages — demonstrating as they do the glaringly unfounded arrogance of Obama’s administration — have been conveniently removed from view.
And you know in your bones that, were it Bush who had gloated so, we would hear nothing else from Big Media for a week.
They’re still living in the world of a decade ago . . . when they could have gotten away with it.
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Who Woulda Thunk It? « Truth Before Dishonor (4797e5) — 10/3/2009 @ 10:27 pmJust FYI: it’s really all Bush’s fault.
Fritz (b79040) — 10/3/2009 @ 10:47 pmAmerican cities have never done that well in IOC voting for the summer Olympics.
DRJ (b008f8) — 10/3/2009 @ 11:04 pmActually, I wouldn’t complain if the Summer Olympics was held in Athens or Sparta or another Greek place every four years. History is on their side for that.
The Winter Olympics? Let the Spartans and Athenians fight amongst themselves over which non-Greek country should hold them in perpetuity.
There is no economic benefit in holding the Games, only political. So, if one nation holds them all the time, every time, so much the better.
John Hitchcock (3fd153) — 10/3/2009 @ 11:11 pm[…] now, the whitewash (can I even say that, racist) begins. Patterico has the […]
Gazzer’s Gabfest » Poor widdle Bawwy didn’t get the Owympics… (b98ad6) — 10/3/2009 @ 11:17 pmAnother failed campaign promise . . .
. . . this could be a very good sign!
Icy Texan (43c637) — 10/4/2009 @ 2:10 amAnother failed campaign promise . . .
. . . this could be a very good sign!
Icy Texan (43c637) — 10/4/2009 @ 2:10 amAnother double post. That’s a bad sign for me, and this stupid pee cee!
Icy Texan (43c637) — 10/4/2009 @ 2:20 amDamn shame ACORN couldn’t get to the IOC.
krusher (5604d1) — 10/4/2009 @ 4:29 amOh, I think it would have been much longer than that.
EW1(SG) (edc268) — 10/4/2009 @ 7:20 amThere are still lefty comments about the LA games in 1984 and how Republicans aren’t interested in sport.
The 1984 games were the most financially successful modern olympic games
Despite the stigma that the Olympics required going into significant debt, Los Angeles successfully hosted the Olympics without any debt. In fact, its Olympic committee ended up with a profit that was in part used to establish and endow the Amateur Athletic Foundation to promote youth sports in Southern California and maintain a Sports Library. The 1984 Summer Olympics are often considered the most financially successful modern Olympics.
Why ? Republicans, businessmen, ran them. Uberroth refused all the suggestions of grandiose projects and used the 1932 site with modest additions. The bicycle races, for example, were in Mission Viejo on city streets.
Montreal, following what would surely have been the Chicago playbook, has yet to recover from the 1976 games.
Mike K (2cf494) — 10/4/2009 @ 7:52 am“In 2016, I’ll be wrapping up my second term as president,”
Pride goeth before a fall.
However, if all the nitwit voters who put the current president into office truly want the US to become the world’s biggest Banana Republic — a sort of Rome or, more recently, British Empire well on its way to gradual but continuous decline — they’ll vote in November 2012 the same way they did in November 2008. Then again, if more of the socio-political quirks of our neighbor to the south, Mexico, become more of the socio-political quirks of this country, the die will have been cast, no matter what.
Mark (411533) — 10/4/2009 @ 9:55 amYou would have thought, after all we have heard about the hopeless incompetence of the Bush administration, that Obama’s competence and judgment would be manifestly superior in contrast.
Sadly, this is not the case.
Kevin Murphy (3c3db0) — 10/4/2009 @ 11:11 amHow about a vote from your readers on whether the LA Times or NYT has the worst editorial and censored opinions? I’m putting my money on the NYT. But that’s because I don’t have to live on a daily basis with the LA Times. 😉
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Patterico’s Pontifications NYT Scrubs Passages Embarrassing to Obama « Are you Freaking Stupid? (4797e5) — 10/4/2009 @ 8:49 pm“They’re still living in the world of a decade ago . . . when they could have gotten away with it.”
They seem to still be getting away with it today. Those who depend on the NYT for their information remain in the dark when the NYT wants to keep them there (see e.g. this):
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/10/024641.php
As for the olympics, Chicago never had a chance – their bid was weak in a variety of ways, but Obama had friends with skin in the game, so he put forth his best effort. He’ll call in the favors when he needs to (or perhaps he was being called on favors owed).
In many ways Obama still acts like a Chicago insider, rather than a president above the fray. Not that he doesn’t know better, but rather that knowing what is conventionally expected of him, he nonetheless chooses to do otherwise. Because, returning to the point I began with regarding the NYT, Obama is also successfully getting away with it.
Kristo Miettinen (cf0c5e) — 10/5/2009 @ 12:39 pmI think we should put everything on hold and support our troops or bring them home. Why aren’t we considering the danger they’re in and help them? If my son or husband was in a war, I would want immediate action.
m vale (f06dad) — 10/6/2009 @ 5:55 pm