Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts

Saturday, February 13, 2010

quotable

Some choice lines from Ian Mulgrew's article on the Olympic opening ceremonies in the Vancouver Sun this morning:

"[The day] was also blemished by a smattering of churlish anti-Olympic protestors that forced the rerouting of the final leg of the torch relay and produced scenes of chaos downtown."

"Demonstrators also tried to march on the stadium to disrupt the opening ceremony... That contrarian spirit, however, was insignificant compared with the outpouring of national pride and hospitality that greeted the end of the... torch relay."

"The evening's celebration was a kaleidoscope of colour and music beginning with an Avatar-like welcome stage by the first nations, complete with four towering totems."

You'd think he could, at least, have tempered the unbridled racism and ignorance by capitalizing the term First Nations.