THANK YOU HARVEY ...The Brave and Amazing Harvey Fierstein ...for getting the National Snowball Rolling to crush the Putin Rat! Should NBC eventually decide to boycott the games, as was noted by Variety, it would not be a first. "The mere mention of a boycott evokes memories of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow, which the United States boycotted in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. NBC had paid $85 million for the rights but cancelled its live coverage." Variety also pointed out that there was no boycott of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, which took place under the watch of the Hitler regime. Similar controversy also surrounded the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, which even resulted in the resignation of Steven Spielberg as a creative consultant. As was noted by Harvey Fierstein in his recent New York Times op-ed, "There is a price for tolerating intolerance." Chad Griffin echoed this sentiment to Variety, saying that “there is a skunk at the garden party that can’t be ignored.”
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:41:55 +0000
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