Muzzle those Olympians!
I suppose Fallows thinks that the entire US Olympic team should apologize for embarrassing the Chinese by selecting a victim of the Darfur genocide to carry the flag. A genocide that, y’know, China aids and abets.
When U.S. Olympic Committee Chairman Peter Ueberroth was asked if the selection of Lomong was an expression by U.S. athletes about their views on China’s human rights abuses, Ueberroth said: “The athletes can answer that better themselves. But either way, it’s fine. Either way it’s good. Lopez earned the right to carry the flag. You [media] folks can go with it. We’ll get out of your way.”
Let’s get going.
Indeed. Let’s get going.