With the countdown to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia now figured in hours, the world's attention has slowly begun to turn to the sleepy sub tropical resort town that is to host the games. What they are finding is not terribly surprising...
Humor aside, the IOC has, through either complicity or incompetence allowed the one of the most corrupt regimes in the world to stand on the global stage, hands stained with blood of their own LGBT citizens, and pockets stuffed with Billions of dollars in kickback cash. All wrapped in the legitimacy of the Olympic Movement..
Lets set aside for just a moment moment, the most disturbing issue facing the International Olympic Committee; Their tacit support and enabling of the violent percecution of LBGT Russians, and instead talk about what has become the most expensive and most corrupt Olympic Games in history.
IOC President, Thomas Bach has decided the best thing for him to do is to stand in front of the world, look reality in the eye and just pretend not to see it. His recent press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was a epic display of denial soaked in desperate self-justification. Completely ignoring the elephants in the room, Bach instead insisted the real problem is all those pesky nay-sayers badmouthing Sochi and his new BFF Vladimir Putin.
The process by which the IOC awarded the 2014 Winter Games to Sochi is at best, ridiculously suspect. Bach and IOC's tone-deaf, fingers in ears, "la- la-la! Can't hear you!! Nothing is wrong!" response, has only served to further undermine what little credibility the IOC had left.
Unable to resist adding his voice to the chorus of ignorance and idiocy led by Putin and Bach, the Mayor of Sochi chimed in with his two rubles worth, claiming there weren't any Gay people in Sochi so all the international furor over persecution of LGBT Russians was not a relevant issue. The Young Turks had a field day with that one...
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