Quote of the Week 2
Nick Cohen of The Guardian writes: “Pick any dictatorship at random and chances are you’ll find China lurking in the background.”
The only justification for the Beijing games is that they will allow connoisseurs of the grotesque to inspect this ghoulish hybrid of the worst of capitalism and the worst of socialism close up. … The International Olympic Committee and all the national sports bureaucracies will follow up by instructing athletes not to say a word out of place.
I wonder if, as an accredited journalist, Nick will be on hand to cover the games in Beijing.
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