A local TV station that reported on Chicagoans NOT wanting the Olympics has been told NOT to run the report again, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT!The Chicago Olympic Committee told FOX Chicago that its broadcast "would harm Chicago's chances" to be awarded the games.
The station's news director ordered staff to hold fire after the report aired once last Thursday morning, claims a source.
Chicago, Madrid, Tokyo and Rio are mounting strong bids for the honor to host in 2016.
The International Olympic Committee makes its decision on Friday. President Obama will lead the in-person push.
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In our latest edition of Olympics Crony Watch…the silencing of dissent. Hey, it’s the Chicago way.
Drudge reports that WFLD-TV has been ordered not to broadcast an anti-Olympics segment again.
Meanwhile, as I noted last week, the president himself will now join cronies Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama to personally lobby in Copenhagen for Chicago’s bid.
On Tuesday, there will be a No Chicago Games protest reflecting the 84 percent opposition to the Olympics boondoggle.
Will they be accused of being an “angry mob,” too?
Michael Goldfarb at TWS:
A Republican emails this morning:
“Is Obama really jetting off to Copenhagen to lobby for a giant 2016 send off party in Chicago just as Iran’s testing nuclear missiles? Amazing…”
Personally, I don’t think I’d mind as much if the beneficiaries of this lobbying campaign by the president were not his cronies in Chicago. If it were any other city that was up for the games — if there was even the appearance that the president was using his position to the benefit of the country as a whole and not just his hometown and homestate…but then again, it’s a six hour flight to Copenhagen, so maybe Obama will have the time to pick up the phone and call his hand-picked commander in Afghanistan and ask him if there’s anything he needs, ask him to submit a report requesting those additional resources, and then Obama can read that report the next time he takes a long flight. You know, whenever it’s convenient for him to deal with the war that U.S. troops are fighting.
Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO:
Some people seem to think that the president is taking time away from more important things to go to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago to get the 2016 games. They’re wrong. He is taking time away from more important things to go get the credit for bringing the Olympics to Chicago. Does anyone seriously believe that the president would take a quick trip to Copenhagen with the possibility of coming back empty-handed? If the president is going, it’s because he knows that Chicago has already won. He’s going.
Jim Geraghty at NRO:
If Chicago doesn’t get the Olympics, we’ll hear a lot of people noting that Obama can’t find time to meet with General McChrystal to decide on his Afghanistan plan, but he could find the time to go Denmark to get rejected . . .
Byron York at The Examiner
Meredith Jessup at Townhall
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