The Winter Olympics: Bigger than Pete Townshend and the Michael Jackson trial
Have you seen the SuperBowl, last weekend?
No?
Well, neither did I. Life’s too short to waste half a day watching commercials, interspersed with the antics of weirdly dressed men, doing incomprehensible things with something not even shaped like a proper football.
Still, even those of us who did not watch cannot have failed to hear and/or read about the controversial choice of geriatric pop band The Who as the Half-Time musical act.
In 2003 the band’s guitarist Pete Townshend had been arrested for ‘accessing child pornography online’, so the Child Abuse Watch Group tried (and failed) to stop The Who from performing at the SuperBowl.
Why am I rehashing this tired old stuff?
Well, because I’m afraid that we may expect far worse in the time leading up to (and no doubt during) the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
I mean, if you can create a screaming row in most of the world’s newspapers when an aged guitarist who once watched child porn appears live on TV for a few minutes…
… then it’s not hard to imagine the media melt-down when the Net’s most infamous paedophile will have a starring role during the whole of those two-and-a-half snow-draped weeks in Vancouver.
As the following newspaper shows, this one is even bigger than the Michael Jackson trial:
“A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified “Pedobear”, a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing the bear alongside genuine Olympic mascots Quatchi, Sumi, Miga and Mukmuk to illustrate a feature about the Games. It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer.”
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February 9th, 2010 at 22:01
Chances are that 106 million people watching including the game crowd knew they were watching the first invited sex offender perform at the Super Bowl. Not that’s a first to be proud of NFL!!
Fat and proud of it! ~ hour glass figure my ass!
February 9th, 2010 at 22:24
Right. I had no idea so many people would actually choose to spend that many hours watching sexist commercials, padded people running around and paedophile pensioners playing the guitar.
Thanks for that insight - and for stopping by and commenting,
J.