And the repulicans are cheering that America lost its bid for the olympics

[WillieW]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/02/weekly-standard-chicago/

Think ProgressWeekly Standard deletes reference to ‘Cheers’ in their office after Chicago lost Olympic bid.By Matt Corley at 1:15 pm Weekly Standard deletes reference to ‘Cheers’ in their office after Chicago lost Olympic bid.

Soon after news broke that the International Olympic Committee had rejected Chicago’s bid to host the 2016 Olympics, which President Obama had personally lobbied for, Weekly Standard blogger John McCormack published a celebratory post on the magazine’s blog, titled “Chicago Loses! Chicago Loses!.” McCormack wrote that “Cheers erupt at WEEKLY STANDARD world headquarters”:

But the post has now been changed. The reference to cheers have been removed and the title has been shortened to a non-exclamatory “Chicago Loses.” The current post neither acknowledges nor explains the changes that were made

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[JuniperLea]

1. The comments are great...

The RW NutJobs are a piece of work, aren't they? Obama could propose a bill to give every Republican a free 5000 sq ft home, a new car of their choosing, a $100,000 bank account (tax free, of course) and they would work feverishly to shoot it down.

I'm so sick of the stupid SOB's I could spit. Those assholes will do or say anything just to be contrary... asinine fucks.

[scheming daemons]

6. They would dance in the streets and shoot off fireworks if another 9/11 happened under Obama

[JuniperLea]

10. Isn't that the sickest thing on Earth?

They would love it... disgusting!

[louis-t]

2. God, they are stupid.

[LeftHander]

3. Like any International anything wants anything to do with America..

With the right wing extremists and crazed morans riled up by the likes of the GOP, Limbaugh and Beck.

[calico1]

4. You just can't make this stuff up...

The same people who are always "rah, rah, rah...I am so proud to be American...America first...blah, blah...now they cheer because the US did not get the games. Do they even realize how stupid they look?

[Skittles]

5. they care about their party more than they care about their country

sick bastards

[B Calm]

7. Somehow I think this will end up making them look Un-American. . .

[rudy23]

8. They cheered the drowning of New Orleans, too. They'll cheer another 9/11 on Obama's watch.

They are tribalists first and foremost. Patriotism is only relevant as it pertains to the tribe.

[izzybeans]

9. Cheers erupted in my office in Chicago, too.

All of us are progressives. The only people upset about it are suburbanites who don't have to deal with Daley or the added miss the Olympics would have brought us.