Enough Already

Did I miss something? It seems as if Yahoo! News can only headline a nitpicking journalist for the Olympic games. It is starting to disgust me. He writes these articles as if he was trying to find some way to find negative press coverage for the Olympic games. His tone and his style speaks as if to say that China owes him something. I really despise this writer. I wonder if he only writes these incendiary remarks to generate hits for his page?

There have been three articles, in the 3 days of the Olympic games, which feature something about China being fake. I read them all. The writer chooses not to focus on the Olympians who have trained their whole lives for this one moment, but what does he choose to focus on? The fact that the Olympic opening ceremony, a show, is well... a show? Is he going to next point out that Yao Ming just looks huge because of the child he was carrying and that we have, once again, been faked out by clever showmanship?

What's worse are some of the comments made by people who read the articles. Some have whole heartedly bought into what they read. It's disgusting. There was even a comment on there that looked like an off topic essay about communist China and the evils of its communistic ways. Another comment began with "I had never been interested in the olympics but...". I think the writer has tricked people to having negative sentiments about the olympics by concentrating on such petty details. It perhaps is a worse sin than what he accused China of committing.

I used to be a little ashamed at being Asian and Chinese. I will the first to admit that Communist China doesn't do everything right. Yet, now I am more ashamed at being American and proud to be Chinese! Before we start nit picking at the little things that China does to make a show more entertaining, how about we cry out against what our own US government has done to fake us? If I remember correctly, we are still in a war with Iraq because our reason for going there was to find weapons of mass destruction, as reported to us by the CIA and White House? I believe we are being petty.

Let's enjoy the Olypians, the proud athletes of the games. Go Michael Phelps! Go team USA! Go team China! Make us proud!