Rightbloggers see Chicago’s Olympics snub as Obama’s foreign policy crisis — which they cheer
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Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.
Last week rightbloggers were outraged when President Obama struck a conciliatory tone in his address to the U.N. General Assembly.
They didn’t like that, nor did they like Obama’s warm reception there,
and predicted this love-fest would only encourage our adversaries, with
dire consequences for the United States.
Time will tell. But this week a different international organization to
whom Obama applied rebuffed him and the United States. This
rightbloggers celebrated as a triumph.
We speak of course of the International Olympic Committee decision to
stage the 2016 Olympics in Rio rather than in Chicago, for which Obama
had made a last-minute appearance at an IOC meeting in Copenhagen.
It was a result for which, with some rare exceptions, they’d been rooting all along:
worthwhile endeavor to promote and boost the United States of America
and invite the world to see what we’re all about,” Obama said
before the decision. In response, rightbloggers rushed to warn the IOC
that Chicago was a seething criminal hellhole. “2016 headline: Violence
greets Chicago Olympics,” predicted Don Surber,
citing a recent incident of youth violence. “The group of Chicagoans
who want to give the Olympics to Rio de Janeiro just got a boost
courtesy of the Third World gangs that rule — and have ruled for
decades — large swaths of the gun-controlled city,” said the Poca,
