The title of this letter doesn’t refer to the American costumes being made in China (so what else is new?), Abby Wambach being punched by a thug posing as an athlete, or the opening ceremonies — further proof of why we split from England in the first place.
What was left out of the opening is the disgrace — a moment of silence in memory of the Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the Munich Summer Olympics in 1972. As reported on the Mike Huckabee radio program, one of the widows went to the head of the International Olympic Committee with this request. She was told any mention of Israel or Munich in the opening would result in a boycott by certain members of the Arab League and their affiliated pressure groups. The conversation ended like this:
IOC: “Madam, my hands are tied.”
Widow: “So were my husband’s before he was shot and killed.”
Seriously, would you have been upset if the Iranian women’s beach volleyball team hadn’t shown up? Or the Syrian women’s slow-pitch softball team? Anyone of a certain age will still remember ABC sportscaster Jim McKay’s haunting words, “They’re all gone.” To make believe the massacre didn’t happen, or to believe it was done by space aliens, isn’t the result of rational thought. The fact is Munich did happen, an opening salvo of what’s become a war of attrition due to timidity, ultra-tolerance and political correctness (a product of Soviet Communism). The good news is, those responsible were found and executed. Today, of course, they’d be taken out ... for sensitivity training.
Three cheers to NBC sportscaster Bob Costas for conducting his own on-air moment of silence, showing why he remains the best in the business.
As for the head of IOC: Sir (a word I use loosely), former San Francisco Chief of Detectives Robert Ironside had more of a spine than you, in or out of a wheelchair!
JEFF GOLDBLATT
Irondequoit
The title of this letter doesn’t refer to the American costumes being made in China (so what else is new?), Abby Wambach being punched by a thug posing as an athlete, or the opening ceremonies — further proof of why we split from England in the first place.
What was left out of the opening is the disgrace — a moment of silence in memory of the Israeli athletes killed by terrorists at the Munich Summer Olympics in 1972. As reported on the Mike Huckabee radio program, one of the widows went to the head of the International Olympic Committee with this request. She was told any mention of Israel or Munich in the opening would result in a boycott by certain members of the Arab League and their affiliated pressure groups. The conversation ended like this:
IOC: “Madam, my hands are tied.”
Widow: “So were my husband’s before he was shot and killed.”
Seriously, would you have been upset if the Iranian women’s beach volleyball team hadn’t shown up? Or the Syrian women’s slow-pitch softball team? Anyone of a certain age will still remember ABC sportscaster Jim McKay’s haunting words, “They’re all gone.” To make believe the massacre didn’t happen, or to believe it was done by space aliens, isn’t the result of rational thought. The fact is Munich did happen, an opening salvo of what’s become a war of attrition due to timidity, ultra-tolerance and political correctness (a product of Soviet Communism). The good news is, those responsible were found and executed. Today, of course, they’d be taken out ... for sensitivity training.
Three cheers to NBC sportscaster Bob Costas for conducting his own on-air moment of silence, showing why he remains the best in the business.
As for the head of IOC: Sir (a word I use loosely), former San Francisco Chief of Detectives Robert Ironside had more of a spine than you, in or out of a wheelchair!
JEFF GOLDBLATT
Irondequoit
