Bob Costas and Katie Couric: Our Ambassadors of Ignorance
I have a feeling this is probably one of many future rants on these idiots.
First, they decided to talk straight through Björk's performance (not that I'm a big Björk fan or anything, but shut yer traps!)
During IOC President Jacques Rogge's speech, Couric was seemingly translating as Rogge addressed the crowd in French. The only problem was, he hadn't actually gotten to that part yet, and ended up giving that portion of the speech in English. So NBC obviously had an advance copy of the address, how 'bout some subtitles for your largely ignorant monolinguist audience?
When Rogge did switch to English, Costas played the Jackass American Card with, "He has now switched to English, much to our relief."
Dipshit.
UPDATE It appears as though the Bob and Katie Phenomenon is an international problem.
These over-amped mime shows that have become the standard for opening cerimonies tend to turn my stomach. It was about on par with a planetarium Pink Floyd LASER show. I thought the ending, where the DNA helix formed from LASER beams, would be a nice touch at the special olympics, only they could show trisomy 21 instead.
Gomez 16 Aug 2004