Mainstream Media’s Sochi Olympics hysteria

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Mainstream Media’s Sochi Olympics hysteria
Russia Today TV
by Anastasia Churkina
February 7, 2014

Ted Rall

Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."

4 Comments.

SomeGuy
February 8, 2014 8:47 AM

Funny about the “war zone” reference given that the WOT has clearly established (in the minds of our revered overlords) that, in fact, EVERYWHERE is a war zone. So – the seemingly most outrageous (one would hope) claim made turns out to be the mostly true one.
Jack Heart
February 8, 2014 9:33 AM

Determined to keep to his long-standing pattern of disappointing me, Jon Stewart also jumped on this bandwagon. SOCHI IS ONLY 250 MILES FROM CHECHNYA!!! 250 MILES!!! OH YEAH, AND THEY HATE GAYS!!!
derlehrer
February 8, 2014 2:02 PM

Explosive toothpaste????
michaelwme
February 8, 2014 2:27 PM

I see the Sochi games on Russia Today. And I see them in the US and European newspapers and TV news shows.

As best I can tell, we are having two completely different Winter Olympic Games this year, in two completely different places, but, strangely, both places are called ‘Sochi.’

Wasn’t that a running joke on the old Bob Newhart Show? Two men with the exact same name?