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From: heahd@tellab1.UUCP (Dan Wood)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: American sportscasting sucks!
Message-ID: <358@tellab1.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 10:02:28 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 10:02:28 1984
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If you don't like America then get the hell out! Not all Americans are
hypocrits. I for one don't buy the nonpolitical or amature status of the
olympics. The super powers have been using the olympics as a political arena
for years. We have the Carter (remember Jimmy "Too little too late " Carter)
administration to thank for the absence of the estern block this year. It
appears to me that even though the athletes don't receive direct compensation
for their efforts, they certinly make their living at it. I get around ABC's
coverage of the games by simply not watching them. There are other channels on
the dial you know. What kind of coverage do you think some other nation's
network would give the olympics if they were held on home territory? Don't you
think their coverage would be biased toward the home team? Maybe the reason
that ABC (which by the way is using Tellabs equipment in their communications
system) is not covering events in which Americans don't compete is that the
American audience for the most part is not interested in those events? Maybe
we have enough pride in our country to be interested in how many Gold medals
Americans have won. Maybe we shouldn't let jerks like you into this  country
to work or study! You certainly seem willing enough to take advantage of the
benefits of this country. And then you turn around and slam the entire
population because of one network's coverage of the stupid olympics! And to
top it off you don't even have the guts to indicate your place of origin
(except by your joy at Canada's win and America's loss, but I refuse to hold
Canada or any other country responsible for one lunitic that escaped to spread 
ill will in a foreign land).  
 
 Sorry spots fans. I know this belongs in net.flame, but I just couldn't let
this idiot's remarks go by unnoticed.


America
Love it or leave it!
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