So Chris & I watched the Olympics on and off all weekend (mostly on). Starting with the Opening Ceremonies - which honestly are usually pretty silly & boring but were actually truly amazing this time - and all the way up to and including the US Men's swimming team taking a slap at the French last night. We love the Olympics in our house - probably because I am so spectacularly un-athletic and clumsy, I am in awe of the level of talent and dedication of these athletes. Plus it's fun to chant "USA, USA" to the cats' annoyance.
Anyway, there we were watching the Opening Ceremony and we noticed a strange thing - NBC's "expert on China" was some hispanic guy named Joshua Cooper-Ramos. Both Chris and I mocked this decision by NBC - I mean here they are carrying on about the historic significance of China hosting the games and how they are becoming more open and joining the rest of the world and they couldn't find one single solitary actual Chinese person who spoke English & was willing to blather on about "Harmony" during the opening?
So I found this article interesting. It seems that our boy Josh is Henry Kissenger's patsy...
So who is Ramos-Cooper? According to a recent piece in the Albuquerque Journal, he “works as a managing director and partner at the Beijing office of Kissinger Associates.” Which explains a lot.
Shouldn’t NBC identify Cooper-Ramos as an employee of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is one of the Americans closest to the Chinese leadership and whose business involves opening doors for Western companies seeking to do business in China?
Nice going NBC. Almost as good a move as having Bob Costas spend 20 bazillion minutes interviewing President Bush on shit that neither one of them actually understands such as foreign policy. Maybe you just should have stuck to asking him if it was fun to slap the volleyball girl on the ass...
