Olympics coverage: "Abide with me," but don't tell the great unwashed.

"Our program is tailored for the U.S. television audience. It’s a credit to [London Olympics opening ceremony producer] Danny Boyle that it required so little editing,” an NBC Sports spokesperson smarmily responded to critics of the network's cutting out — for their American audience — a tribute to the London terrorism victims of 2005 ("Abide with me" above).

"Get used to stuff like this," writes USA Today Sports reporter Michael Hiestand, explaining why CBS decided to skip the UK's Olympic tribute to victims of the Jihadist London bombings of Summer '05 and go straight for the ratings jugular:

Which is more likely to encourage U.S.viewers to stick around for your feel-good TV show: chit-chat between mega-celebs Ryan Seacrest and Michael Phelps or a tribute to victims of an overseas terrorist attack that happened seven years ago?

"An overseas terrorist attack that happened seven years ago"? How yesterday is that? Not to mention the International Olympic Committee's decision to bow in dhimmitude to our Islamist masters and pretend the first shot across our bow back in ancient history — the horrific Munich massacre of 1972 — never happened.

 

We're obviously not CBS Sports' target audience — much less an acolyte of the Church of See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil of Islam — but thanks to Mediaite we've got the story:

During the portion of the performance that was not broadcast in the U.S., the BBC announcer asks the audience to observe a moment of silence. “The excitement of that moment in Singapore seven years ago when England won the games was tempered the next day with sorrow from the events of July 7th that year,” says the BBC announcer. “A wall of remembrance for those no longer here to share in this event.”

The poignant "Abide with me," sung by Emeli Sande in the Olympic tribute, is a Christian hymn by Scottish Anglican Henry Francis Lyte, most often sung to William Henry Monk's tune "Eventide":

Abide with me; fast falls the eventide;
The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide.
When other helpers fail and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim; its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me …

Thou on my head in early youth didst smile,
And though rebellious and perverse meanwhile,
Thou hast not left me, oft as I left Thee.
On to the close, O Lord, abide with me.

Crossposted at Riehl World View.

Comments

[goomp]

Those who hate what America has been seem to rule the media.

[C R Krieger]

Maybe I don't understand "Trackback", but when I tried to use that URL it gave me "1 Trackback pings must use HTTP POST". So, I used the URL at the top.

Thanks

Regards  —  Cliff

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Abide With Me

[Sissy Willis]

Hmm. Not sure how that works in blogspot. Thanks, again, for the niced link! :)

Sissy

[Elisson]

Bah. The fact that the IOC permitted the tribute to the July 7 victims but (pointedly) did not allow for recognition of the Munich massacre's victims during the opening ceremonies still sticks in my craw. What a slap in the face for the families of the athletes and coaches murdered by the Black September terrorists, who were killed specifically because they were Jews. Sure, there was a moment of silence... in front of - what? - maybe 100 people, not the billion who should have been reminded that evil still walks the earth.

Alas, the IOC still bears the stink of Avery Brundage's hateful legacy.