The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Stupidity

As if Keith Olbermann wasn’t ample proof that NBC hires the most celebrated morons in journalism, check this unbelievable remark from the peacock network’s Olympic commentator Jim Gray.

Pontificating on a special feature that highlighted the impact of international tensions on the Olympic Games, the uninformed Gray said the “Blood in the Pool” incident, a 1956 water polo fracas between Russia and Hungary, was “the most significant political event in Olympics history.”

Really?

Hey Jimmy, are you old enough to remember the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Olympics in protest of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan? How about the Soviet Union protesting our protest by taking their ball and going home during the 1984 Games? No? Heard of Jesse Owens? He was that fast black American guy who made Hitler’s “master race” look like girlie-men.

Oh right, those were just symbolic events. Well, does the kidnapping and massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists in the 1972 Munich Olympics meet your criteria? I’d say there was more than just blood in the pool on that day.

I can hear ABC’s Jim McKay rolling over in his grave.