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Commie Cast: U.S. Networks Have Nothing But Praise for China During Olympics.

No Mention of Egregious Human Rights Violations and Government Censorship.


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America’s relationship with China (Biden family aside) is tense. This makes watching the Olympics —for those of us not boycotting the games —incredibly uncomfortable. American athletes and media outlets are under strict orders not to mention, you know, all the bad stuff.

Uyghur genocide. Government censorship. Human rights violations. The Wuhan Institute.

The FBI says there is “no broader threat” than China —even warning athletes not to bring their personal cell phones to Beijing. Everyone has to pretend things are peachy keen, even as we see Dutch newscasters being dragged away by Chinese agents during live broadcasts (pictured above).

So how are U.S. media outlets covering China during the games? So far, they’re largely ignoring the country’s abhorrent, bullying behavior and human rights violations. In fact, what we’re seeing is something much closer to praise. Like NYTs glowing review of China’s COVID response.

“China’s success at controlling Covid had turned into a public relations triumph for the regime,” write reporters David Leonhardt and Ian Prasad Philbrick. “President Xi Jinping uses China’s management of the virus to bolster his global campaign for influence, arguing that China’s system of government works better than Western democracies do.”

The article makes no mention of Wuhan or the potential (likely) origins of the virus. It also fails to mention “the Chinese government’s initial efforts to downplay the severity of the virus. It does, however, concede that China’s containment measures have ‘disrupt[ed] daily life even more than in other countries,’ especially the ones that value ‘individual rights,’ such as the United States, where citizens are allowed to ‘disagree vehemently’ about government policy, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

Right, because we know what happens when you talk smack about the CCP —just ask tennis player Peng Shuai (if you can find her).

“NBCUniversal, the Comcast subsidiary responsible for producing U.S. coverage of the Olympics, was also quick to peddle Chinese propaganda during the opening ceremonies. Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie provided credulous commentary on the (alleged) selection of a Uyghur athlete from Xinjiang province to light the Olympic torch,” WFB reports.

“This moment is quite provocative. It’s a statement from the Chinese president Xi Jinping,” said Guthrie. “It is an in-your-face response to those Western nations, including the U.S., who have called this Chinese treatment of [Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang] genocide and diplomatically boycotted these games.”

“Provocative?” That’s one way to describe one million Uyghur Muslims thrown into internment camps and forcibly separating children from their parents. Nice journalism-ing, Ms. Guthrie.

“It has to be said that the Chinese government emphatically denies all of this,” NBC commentators remarked. “They say that accusations of genocide are the lie of the century.”

It doesn’t have to be said, NBC —especially when it’s a lie.