Posted on 02/26/2010 9:33:10 AM PST by bloodmeridian
At least you'd think that were the case, the way the media is behaving about these ecstatic women knocking back a few swigs and puffing on cigars (I no longer use the term MSM since it's pretty obvious the paid media aren't even close to being mainstream).
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Oh horror, cigars and adult beverages used by college age kids... Unprecedented. We pass laws pretending that kids don’t drink. We pretend it doesn’t happen universally. I hate pretending.
I respectfully disagree with your viewpoint, although I could be over reacting. I don’t think that it had any place during Olympic games. If it was a league championship or something like that, then fine, but this is the Olympics and best behavior is supposed to have priority, especially from the host country.
I guarantee that if you have that same headline but substituted the Brazilian Women’s Beach Volleyball Team, you could have the Thread of the Year.
Only cigars and alkyhol? I’m not Catholic but I think I need to go to confession anyway for the thoughts that entered my mind upon reading the headline.
I know they are happy, but I look at those pictures and I don’t think that’s behavior a supposed world-class athlete does, out on the playing field in front of everyone. Cigars and champagne, no. I’d say that for any team, any time. Leave it for the locker room.
The whole jumping and cheering after the win, and all that, that’s great and expressing emotion and celebrating victory. I’d just say the cigars and bottles out there, posed the way they are, looks like it’s in poor taste.
PARTY ON LADIES!! YOU EARNED IT!!
Yup. Women’s hockey are full of butchies. Besides, the US Men’s Team are taking notes...
Priceless!
I can’t wait for the new video of “Girls behaving badly on Ice”.
I don't drink and I don't smoke, but I have a problem with people saying this isn't "best behavior". They are athletes, not saints. If they have a beer and a smoke to celebrate their victory, it's not offensive. How can it be? Drinking and smoking are (outside the U.S.) universally common methods of relaxation and celebration.
This is an issue because some in the press just need a negative to lead a story with. It's the old journalistic canard "if it bleeds, it leads". This is a complete fabrication of shock and dismay.
Want a story on shocking behavior at the Olympics? Investigate the bribery and payoffs that is rife among the members of the IOC. That is the scandal.
These aren’t necessarily college women and underage drinking in Canada is under 18. They won the gold; a party at center ice seems fitting to me. This was not an “orgy”.
Of all people, conservatives should not be assuming the position of liberal thought and PC police. Give these athletes a little space. Shhheeeesh!
TRACK RECORD ON OLYMPIC CORRUPTION
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/olympics_2012/3939219.stm
The same people complaining (IOC) do worse things. What the Canadians did was legal.
The mental images were better than the actual story.
The celebration was a bit excessive, but not worth worrying about.
SnakeDoc
Decorum Decorum.. geeesh..
Is the Olympics now the X Games?
This picture looks like they are gangsta rapperettes. Real ones are bad enough. White females trying to be them are even worse.
I guess nobody can celebrate with a little dignity anymore.
By the time all this started the medals had been handed out and the team pictures taken, TV coverage had ended and most folks had left the arena.
>If it was a league championship or something like that, then fine, but this is the Olympics and best behavior is supposed to have priority, especially from the host country.
But look, they’re not DOING anything remotely disruptive. Is celebration not a best-behavior type thing, or by best-behavior do you mean ‘formal’?
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