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Offline gwano

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NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« on: August 12, 2008, 02:50:38 PM »
Did anyone else notice last nights pre coverage when NBC posted the medal count and had the USA and China medal count wrongly switched?

Doesn't NBC proofread their copy or were they just trying to make us feel good.
What a bunch of dopes.
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2008, 10:27:22 PM »
Shade acount anyone?
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2008, 10:41:17 PM »
Wow, I think you just might have too much time on your hands.
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2008, 10:50:46 PM »
Did anyone notice watching the opening ceremonies see the CGI fireworks or the little lip syncing girl because the actual girl singing was deemed not 'cute' enough by the Politiburo? 


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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2008, 11:08:37 PM »
 Go China.Spreading honesty and truth at every sanction lol
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2008, 11:16:07 PM »
China would try to manipulate the media!?!?

Who'da thunk it? :O
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2008, 11:40:43 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on August 12, 2008, 10:50:46 PM
Did anyone notice watching the opening ceremonies see the CGI fireworks or the little lip syncing girl because the actual girl singing was deemed not 'cute' enough by the Politiburo? 


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You just gave me proof that nothing will ever surpass 1936 olympics :aok
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #7 on: August 13, 2008, 12:00:01 AM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on August 12, 2008, 10:50:46 PM
Did anyone notice watching the opening ceremonies see the CGI fireworks or the little lip syncing girl because the actual girl singing was deemed not 'cute' enough by the Politiburo? 


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a customers car had a station playing the BBC news this morning.....and they were talking about it on there.

they interviewed a few people, and the last one was an american woman. they british news reporter made it a point to mention that the american was the only one mad about it. all of hte others defended it as a "safety" measure :rolleyes:

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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #8 on: August 13, 2008, 01:19:34 AM »
Did anybody notice that this part was just a show?  That the little girl flying above the feild was not really flying but was suspended by wires in another blantant Chinese attempt to pull one over on the west?

I thought that the Olympics are about competition.

Why does anyone care about the rest?
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2008, 03:50:39 AM »
Quote from: mg1942 on August 12, 2008, 11:40:43 PM
You just gave me proof that nothing will ever surpass 1936 olympics :aok

The '84 Olympic ceremonies were probably the best, the UFO was cool and at least they didn't have someone else play the guitar for the armless man.


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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2008, 06:16:33 AM »
Acctually gwuano NBC was not wrong you are, China has more gold medals than the US but the US has more overall medals they were sorting them by gold, not quantity
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2008, 06:19:09 AM »
Doesn't china surpass the U.S. in really wierd non-serious ones though? I thought that for the most part (with bigger sports) the U.S. pretty much dominated.  :aok
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2008, 07:38:54 AM »
Quote from: Holden McGroin on August 13, 2008, 01:19:34 AM
Did anybody notice that this part was just a show?  That the little girl flying above the feild was not really flying but was suspended by wires in another blantant Chinese attempt to pull one over on the west?

I thought that the Olympics are about competition.

Why does anyone care about the rest?

PERSONALLY, I DON'T GIVE A DAM about any of it. i think it's bbecome one of the biggest wastes of time and money there is. 
 i was mentioning what i had heard on the news, that's all.

just my opinion though
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Offline gwano

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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #13 on: August 13, 2008, 04:19:48 PM »
Quote from: Matador on August 13, 2008, 06:16:33 AM
Acctually gwuano NBC was not wrong you are, China has more gold medals than the US but the US has more overall medals they were sorting them by gold, not quantity

No, NBC stated that the USA had the most and included the 9 golds as part of the total USA medals.
I just thought it was very poor TV reporting and journalism.
Somebody hijacked this post  and turned it into "LOOK AT HOW CHINA IS FOOLING US"
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Re: NBC's latest Olympics BLUNDER
« Reply #14 on: August 13, 2008, 04:34:40 PM »
Quote from: mentalguy on August 12, 2008, 10:27:22 PM
Shade acount anyone?
Well, it does look like his original avatar.... Hmmmm
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