NBC appears to cut crowd's booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast

[mysteryowl]

Vice-president given hostile reception by some in Milan
US broadcast cuts out crowd’s show of dissent.

The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday, although American viewers watching NBC’s coverage would have been unaware of the reception.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast

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Here we go folks. Authoritarian regime suppresses press.

[SheltieLover]

1. Disgusting

[Deep State Witch]

2. You Could Hear it During the Live Broadcast

But it was cut out during the evening playback of the Opening Ceremony.

[RockCreek]

5. censorship

with no possible valid reason.

[arthritisR_US]

11. But that's your free speech country, what a lie

[Wednesdays]

9. I noticed that, too.

Audible during the original, not there in the evening.

I expected as much from NBC.

[Coldwater]

3. According to Entertainment Weekly

On Canada's CBC broadcast the crowd noise (booing) was a lot more obvious,

[EYESORE 9001]

4. Looks like the pusillanimous media are performing self-suppression

They’re so eager - anticipatory, really.

[Volaris]

17. Its almost as if they like their beatings.

[walkingman]

6. The Trump administration has to politicize everything. The people is this world

just want them to go away and leave them alone.

Nothing but a bunch of bullies! Jerks!

[mysteryowl]

7. ...and perpetual criminals

[Melon]

8. I could hear it on the broadcast. I may go back and watch again.

[mysteryowl]

12. where was it during the opening ceremonies?

[catchnrelease]

20. Clip was just a few seconds

During the part where the US team was walking in. I didn't watch the ceremonies so can't give a time frame.

[Prairie Gates]

10. This was done by a video editor and a sound mixing guy

Seriously: at the most fundamental level, the higher ups gave instructions and they were handed down, landing ultimately on a video editor and a sound mixing guy. And they executed. I'm not actually asking you to forgive them. Quite the contrary: everyone along the line, from the top dog at NBC to the sound mixing guy, bear responsibility for this fascist garbage. We have to train our children to say no.

[BidenRocks]

13. Leni Riefenstahl would be proud!

Another propaganda Olympics broadcast!

Censored!

[B.See]

14. Not only did the MSM shills

muffle boos but I suspect they manipulated sounds in other ways. I suspect the reception of some teams was not as 'great' as hoped, certainly not as 'great' as had been on past occasions, and frankly I think that's a damned shame because these kids (of all nations) work too hard, dedicating their time/lives to perfecting their craft only to have their moment sullied by the burden of the reprehensible politics of old men playing god, stoking chaos, and creating mahem.

Good luck to them all.

[BigmanPigman]

15. I saw this on the Jack Cocchiarella podcast earlier today.

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This is why no one watches corporate media BS anymore. Just like WaPo, the MSM is going to an early grave due to greedy, unAmerican assholes. Good riddance! They deserve to die. Too bad they won't go bankrupt or learn any lessons from their investments.

[Cha]

22. Thank You So Much, BP... I Needed

That!

Who was that person at the end talking about Renee Good and Alex Pretti so Elegantly?

💔☮️🌺🌻🕯️🕊️💜

[BigmanPigman]

23. That's NYC's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani

He rocks!!!!!

[Cha]

30. Mahalo!

[Celerity]

16. The crowd should have chanted 'Couch! Couch! Couch!' nonstop for a few mintues.

[LittleGirl]

18. I watched the BBC 2 feed their live broadcast

And you could hear the cheers fade to boos as soon as the VP and wife were shown on the jumbo Tron. The announcers commented and used a “uh oh, not a welcome rumble” to that vision. The camera switched to the athletes waving to the camera and the cheers returned. It was a flash of two to three seconds but it was noticeable. I did not hear the boos on the NBC feed tonight.

This opening ceremony was brilliant. The Italians put on a great presentation of the importance of coming together with peace. I really enjoyed the whole production.

It was too long though. 5 stars

[Buddyzbuddy]

19. No Fox, no CBS, and now at the very least no Olympics and

maybe no NBC? Dumb move.

[scipan]

21. I saw it on a west coast broadcast and couldn't hear the boos, but the look on his face

went from smiling to not happy. That was after I read about the boos here.

[tavernier]

24. Haha

Thanks, I missed that . I have the flu so I slept through the opening ceremonies, but your post made me smile.

[malaise]

26. Haha

[mysteryowl]

31. The video was changed! They took out the booooooing

[Chasstev365]

27. Gee; would they do that if Tim Walz had been VP?

Of course not.

Aside from bring another corporate media souce, everyone has enable the Orange Bully by always cowering in fear.
Pathetic!

[Initech]

28. Cowards! Fuck JD Vance!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Outrage as video of JD Vance being booed at Olympics gets blocked on social media

Musk tried to delete the boos

Outrage as video of JD Vance being booed at Olympics gets blocked on social media www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-267...

— Sal Vadacchino 🇨🇦 (@sal-vadacchino.bsky.social) 2026-02-07T21:42:53.489Z

https://www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-2675108277

Vice President JD Vance was booed at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Italy on Friday, but at least one widely shared video of it was swiftly scrubbed from X, the social media platform controlled by former Trump administration adviser Elon Musk.

Acyn Torabi, or @Acyn, “is an industrialized viral-video machine,” the Washington Post explained last year, “grabbing the most eye-catching moments from press conferences and TV news panels, packaging them within seconds into quick highlights, and pushing them to his million followers across X and Bluesky dozens of times a day.”

In this case, Torabi, who’s now senior digital editor at MeidasTouch, reshared a video of the vice president and his wife, Usha Vance, being booed that was initially posted by filmmaker Mick Gzowski.

However, the video was shortly taken down and replaced with the text, “This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”

Noting the development, Torabi, said: “No one should have a copyright on Vance being booed. It belongs to the world.”

As of press time, the footage is still circulating online thanks to other X accounts and across other platforms—including a video shared on Bluesky by MeidasTouch editor in chief Ron Filipkowski.

[Jack Valentino]

32. Well--- if they had covered the actual duration of the booing----

how many extra minutes of airtime would that have cost them ??




and, they were likely charged with covering the actual athletic events,
were likely mostly some kind of athletic and not political reporters....
and as such I suspect 'crowd reaction' is not high on their list of priorities.....


Never fear, it will and has certainly been reported elsewhere,
as you are helping to do!