Agent Orange.
I think the IOC preferred RIO. Chicago and Obama are so irrelevant. I wonder if the IOC is getting fed up with the USOC.

June 6, 2008: "In 2016, I'll be wrapping up my second term as president," he said to loud applause at Daley Plaza. "So I can't think of a better way than to be marching into Washington Park, alongside Mayor Daley, alongside Rahm Emanuel, alongside Dick Durbin, alongside Valerie Jarrett, as President of the United States and announcing to the world: Let the games begin."

Wow. What a complete and utter fill-in-the-blank-so-this-isn't-censored. I have to believe most Americans didn't hear that quote because Americans don't like a braggart who assumes he is owed something.

The Europeans were not impressed with Obama, they thought he was arrogant. George Will (finally) said somthing I agree with that the the Olympic pitch was more about Obama than the Olympics themselves:

Here is a video clip:

http://motorcitytimes.com/mct/video-george-will-s...

I'm sitting here just gloating up a storm. With liberals they want unity only when they are in power. Since they have never practiced it, they cannot really preach it. Wait, just one more gloat . . . . ah!

I wonder how well Chicago would have done if President Hopey had not played his hand in this thing? My guess is that they would have at least made it past the first round.

I think his statement would be better if he had said ""So I can't think of a better way than to be marching into the nearest federal prison, alongside Mayor Daley, alongside Rahm Emanuel, alongside Dick Durbin, alongside Valerie Jarrett, as a felon and impeached former president".

Mr Gutfeld, my congratulations and continued good luck on your recent ratings success.
I offered the same on another post but feel It can't hurt to say it again.

You are right as Rush,on the typical whining that the left gives us for our perceived
indescretions. While their opinion is considered taking the high road and ours is the low road,
will you know how it ends.

Never, he's a one trick pony. Knows one act, and that's what you're gonna hear.

Who wouldn't rather party in Rio rather than Chicago, unless there's a blues festival going on? I mean, really, the beaches or the lake? No brainer to me.

Plus, after Utah, its against the law to bribe the IOC. That is not going to help.

The hatred towards America is, without debate, NOT because of Kingdom Hollywood's abundance of influential, fabulous and ground-breaking "see how stupid, fat, ugly, greedy, religious, uptight, homophobic, racist, violent is America" movies produced over the past four decades.

The hatred towards America is Bush's Fault and has absolutely NOTHING to do with Hollywood!

the right has been waiting for this moment when the world pwnd The One….and it's as good as we thought it would be.

The IOC gets to spend the next seven years visiting the site to inspect it, meet and greet, pass out favors as well as collect them. If you were them, would you rather do that it Rio or Chicago?

I know where I'd rather vacation.

The only reason the US is even in the running for any of these is because we can deliver the venues, and the MSM pays a lot more when they don't have to fly all their cameras half way around the world, and everything's happening in the middle of the night.

Last I heard, they can get somewhere between $1 – $2 billion for a US summer game.

Regarding "Les Nesman" reference… pure gold, ToddM!

Your point about Bush and the Iraq war is so spot on that I must say "Amen!"

Mike Lupica is a complete hack. Never read an insightful thought in any of his commentaries. His books are as riveting as watching paint dry. A classic, if you can't play, write about it, sports wannabe.

Ok I would be willing to accept the "It's Bush's Fault" if people that feel that way can explain one little thing that gets in the way. Time. Without a doubt these same countires that hate us because of Bush, Hated us long before Bush was even president. In fact some of the hatred goes so far back Bush Jr. was not even born yet.

So like I said please explain the timeline of hatred and how it preceeds Bush being born but somehow all goes back to "It's Bush's Fault"? I'll wait for a reply that only a fool will try and answer. The 93 Bombing of the WTC was Bush's fault? How about the Iranian Hostages in the late 70's?

There is no doubt in my mind the president is a true textbook narcissist. He actually believed he could sway the IOC with his "elegant oratories". Well, that is why he lost the bid for the Olympics. He is a smug, egotistical man and every time I hear him speak, his words ring hollow for me.

Good use of the word pwn. It just feels right in this case.

The hatred towards America is Bush's Fault and has absolutely NOTHING to do with Hollywood!

Really? Because when I went to Australia, even though they're a socialist-lite nation they liked Americans AND President Bush. To my surprise they stated to me that THEY felt safer because BUSH was in office. This was expressed to me by several different people without me asking their opinion on politics. In fact my American companion had more of a problem with Bush than many people from foreign nations that I have met on my travels which I believe has to do with the far left media and Hollywood.

Also I think these opinions from other countries is also fueled by the younger generation who has no freakin' clue what is going on in their OWN politics let alone American politics. I see this from some of my friends overseas…they will have tons of stuff to say about how horrible America and Bush are but when it comes to their own political affairs they are ignorant and most of the information they get is from the biased media outlets we have and Hollywood.

Also one other minor point…being against gay marriage is NOT Homophobia and being against Obama's POLICIES is not racist.

Oh Gee, when I moved to Europe in 1997 I was amazed that they hated America AND made fun of Clinton! This was 3 years before Bush was even elected. We were told by the news how much Tony Blair and the Europeans just LOOOOOOVED the Clintons.

Wrong.

There is an anti-Americanism in Europe that goes back many years. Bush didn't start it. AND it's completely irrational.

I can't tell if you are sarcastic or not.

Regardless, the hatred towards America is not Bush's fault *nor* Hollywood's.

If the rest of the world has a problem with the USA that is *their* problem not ours. I attribute it to a mix of jealous leaders, general ignorance of the masses, and a tinge of resentment that our society kicks so much ass with the people who were the outcasts of their cultures, who were sick and tired of how their countries did things and went to find their own path.

Congrats GG!

Red Eye averaged 432,000 total viewers and 202,000 in the demo. Let’s deal with the demo first – CNN’s 8pmET show, hosted by Campbell Brown, averaged 191,000 in the demo. Let’s just let that one sink in – Fox News had more people in the all important A25-54 demographic watching their channel at three in the morning (east coast time) than CNN had for the show that leads off their prime time. This says as much about Fox News as it does about CNN. Wow. (emphasis mine)

I hate to break it to you, but America is not widely hated. Where it is hated, it's generally for the same reasons that lefties in this country hate America: it's not socialist enough; it's not Communist enough; their chosen special interest group doesn't have every single thing they want; the President isn't 'eloquent' enough; or they're just mad that a place that in ever way defies their personal preferences is so successful.

The world does not love and hate a country based upon a 4- or 8-year administrative decision. It's a complete myth that lefties sold themselves. Hell, Canada has hated us for decades. But who cares? It's CANADA.

I hope you're being sarcastic.

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Hey Ed: Your point's just been proven.

Liberals will just take another hit off the hope&change joint and forget all about obama getting slapped in the face by the IOC.

It should have said

"The Ego Has Landed On His Empty Head"…………………..That was truely a "Chicago Style Naked Belly Flop".

You mean,…………………………….. Wolf "With the REALLY BIG BRAIN" Blitzer!!!

Hey everyone, we shouldn't gloat too much (though I did) that Obama has fried egg on his face. We need to be more "respectful" and "tone down" the criticism and rhetoric that might "endanger" The One. Remember Pelosi's tears? (or were they eye-drops? Who knows what Botox paralyzes!) Of course, I thought the world was conditioned by liberals, hollywood, and the media (I know, synonyms!) TO BE MEAN, CRUEL, AND NASTY. Oh, but I guess that was behavior only reserved for worthy conservatives. So I guess we shouldn't gloat that Rio won instead of Chicago, but just be grateful that The One spent 25 whole minutes talking to the top general in Afghanistan (imagine! 25 long and glorious minutes of face time with The One!) and has spent ……., uh, how many minutes talking and doing something, you know, about JOBS, THE ECONOMY, OUR CURRENCY, OUR DEBT, IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS????????? Oh, I forgot- health care will solve all those pesky little problems.

There was never a time when we weren't hated by the rest of the world. They hated us after we gained independence from England, they hated us after WWs I&II and they'll go on hating us. Teddy Roosevelt knew this: "They may fear us and they may even respect us but they will never love us."

Amen sister!

Amen to that!

And you wouldn't have been the only ones to pay for it. The taxes on the Olympics would have gone "viral" and spread all across America. I figure we ALL dodged a financial bullet.

OH well there's an even bigger endorsement for the veracity of CNN reporting. A man who most likely could not identify an encyclopedia if it fell off a shelf and broke his foot.

I think these negative votes are representative of most uptight blog hangers-ons' failure to recognize satire when it crashes on their heads. Sue was saying that Holllywood is a major contributor to the world's disdain for America. She's right on. BTW, Jonathan Swift, an English satirist of long-ago days, invoked the ire of England's uptight clergy a few centuries ago when he proposed "A Solution to the Irish Problem" that offered recipes for cooking Irish children. Swift, of course, was bitterly criticizing English policy toward Ireland.

Well, let's see. Mike Lupica, as with many sports reporters, never played sports. So they vicariously live through others and they're still liberal shills. Mike = Les Nesman. Now get back to your violin! Who cares what he thinks? How about if race-baiting and extortion were an Olympic sport, Jesse Jackson would be wracking up the golds! And Roland Burris is a typical Chicago-crook politician and even the Dem's don't like him. Lot of nothing. The left, yes they did, made Obama seem omnipotent and almost god-like (Evan Thomas has a shrine in his home). They put him high on a golden pedestal and now they are sore to find out that he's not Crocodile Dundee putting the water buffalo to sleep with his Texas Longhorn hand sign and low hum. Obama's a politician – nothing more, nothing less. And when the rubber meets the road, not a very good one.

Any time anyone says anything with a qualifier like "WITHOUT DEBATE" you can be sure of one thing, that the person who just said or wrote the thing cannot stand up to debate or support his or her position. Sue you are allowed your opinion, like anyone else, but you do not have the right to think your opinion is a fact.

If this was your attempt at sarcasm, it flew past me.

Good call! Who am I to think "betterred" – quite the name – is using punctuation that might make sense?

The hatred towards America is, without debate, because of "sue".

"War and the Olympics are somewhat different, genius."

You are correct.

Hoping Chicago doesn't get the Olympics so the President will look bad is rather childish and tacky.

On the other hand, hoping your country loses a war so the President will look bad is unforgivable.

who doesn't enjoy seeing an arrogant narcissist getting his hat handed to him ?

Greg, I'm with you………………………………"screw the Olympics".

America needs those games like we need a Chicago-style gangster in the White House……….no, really.

The look on those peoples faces in the photo………………………………………….priceless.

Great article! Everybody watch Red Eye on Fox.

Obama is proving he is not the President of ALL the people of the United States of America. Obama says he is above that, Obama is a citizen of the World — BO thinks this is a more important job.

The world will love America when Kingdom Hollywood is bankrupt and out of business.

Stop questioning my patriotism! What is this, HUAC 2?

Looks like the sheen has tarnished on the annointed one (since tarnish is black…will the libturds call me a racist?). And after the Olympic committee told Pres. Opompous to take his filthy city and take a hike, he humiliates himself further by having his loser dimwitcrats actually blame Bush! It's the equivalent of saying that the liberal's "health care reform" plan is bi-partisan. Last time I checked, the dimwitcrats ran the entire government….and they shall be blamed entirely for the government's failures.

Oops, meant "America". Too angry to type.

As a resident of Illinois just south of "Crook County" (highest county sales tax in the country!), I say that Chicago's loss was a gain to all the residents of the state of Illinois. If Chicago had gotten the Olympics, we would have seen enormous cost overruns due to graft and cronyism. The taxpayers of Illinois would have been put "on the hook" to feed this pig.

Yes. I think some people are not getting the sarcasm…

It's up for sale for $5 million – only $5 MILLION. The slae of the Boston Globe went for over ten times that amount.

Aaaah, Jim Norton and S.E. Cupp. I love those two on yer show!

Dont forget, Bush is also responsible for every tsunami in Asia, and every hurricane in the western hemisphere that has taken place in the entire 20th century and that will ever take place in the entire 21st century to come.

"…NO ONE DIED. Unlike, say during the Iraq war, where, whenever there was a roadside bombing, the progressives did their own special victory dance…"

Amen. That is exactly right. And the context matters. If it were not the culmination of 9 months of high-handed, arrogant incompetence from the Obama administration, nobody would say a thing.

Having said that, I´m trying not to gloat. After all, why Chicago? We had the games in 1984 and 1996, and winter olympics in 1980 and 2002. It´s only fair that other countries get the chance to host the games. As a large and rapidly developing country, Brazil strikes me as an obvious choice. Good for them. Now the Obama administration should turn their attention, you know, Afghanistan, Iranian nukes and economic growth.

Blame the Hollywood for making movies that make America's image so bad, they distribute it around the world and the muslim extremist felt that they are the good guy.

Same old, same old. When are you people going to stop blaming Bush for everything that goes wrong in this country? Who knew the man had that much power?

What is wrong with everyone? Are we so much of a self-centered nation that we assume everything revolves around us? What arrogance the President shows to assume that by simply flying over to Europe with his wife and Oprah to personally make a pitch for Chicago that the Olympic committee's plans would instantly change to our benefit. Brazil won simply because, THEY WERE DUE! The continent of South America had never hosted a summer Olympic games and so, it was South America's / Brazil's time to be placed on the world's stage. Japan has hosted multiple Olympics, England, France, Canada, the US, Russia, and so forth.
Those countries that like the U.S. still do and those that don't, still don't. The degree of like and dislike goes up and down, and perhaps it is down lately, but that didn't affect the decision. Brazil was the heavy favorite since the beginning of the selection process, and sure enough, they won.
Unfortunately, the President's ego led him to believe that he is the world President, not the U.S. President. Perhaps a small taste of humble pie is what he needed.

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