--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote:
>
> [Jon Stewart alluded to this the other night.
> Here's the fuller story.
> Lots of fun details, especially the burning
> underpants.]
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/arts/14conn.html
>
> The New York Times
> April 14, 2008
>
> Connections
>
> The Relay of Fire Ignited by
> the Nazis
>
[WS:] I do not particularly care for the Olympic mythology, Nazi inspired or otherwise, but the protests generated by carrying the torch to China - and media coverage they receive - is quite annoying. These protests look like thinly veiled China-bashing - either by star-eyed useful idiots infatuated by quiant images of Tibet (James Heartfield had an excellent critique of that idiocy) - or perhaps by agents provocateur, so it looks like "spontaneous" popular action rather than an orchestrated campaign.
Wojtek
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