Well, it's begun,

[dballance]

18. I wanted to strangle Lauer and Viera - Overall I enjoyed it.

They really sucked as hosts/commentators for this. Lauer was all to happy to point out that 80% of the teams participating have never won a medal and most are unlikely to change that this time around. Well, Matt, that's just as insulting as Rmoney's dig on the UK for allegedly not being ready. If I were on one of those teams made up of people who worked very hard to qualify to get to London I'd be throwing darts at a poster of you today. Talk about perpetuating the obviously reasonable opinion other countries have of the USA as arrogant asses.

Of course I'm a major liberal and I think we should have a health care system like Canada and the UK that is single-payer and universal. That aside I enjoyed the real doctors and nurses dancing in the tribute to the NHS. They were all pretty darn good for non-professional dancers. Why the hell does anyone in the US have any right to be outraged over the NHS segment? The UK is not our country so the people of the UK can run THEIR country and THEIR health care system anyway they want. Frankly, those who were upset by it here in the US are probably just those idiot Tea Baggers, congress critters who hate the ACA and their lobbyists and super-pac friends who are trying to sabotage the ACA. Well go pound sand idiots. YOU LOST on this one.

During the Frankie and June segment I can't believe Viera actually admitted she and Lauer didn't know who Tim Berners-Lee is and had to ask before the segment ran. How embarrassing they are so ill-informed. Proving once again our supposed "news professionals" here in the USA live in a bubble that focuses only on what is going to bring viewers or drive web traffic in the next 24-hr cycle. No depth whatsoever in in most of the news talkers. That's why I spend my time listening to NPR and my local Public Broadcast station.

Sure the opening ceremony didn't keep me on the edge of my seat the whole time but I think they did a good job of it.

Seriously, they got the Queen, the real frigging Queen and her Corgis to be a part of it in a really hilarious way. Could you imagine a President Rmoney (aka Wooden Man) being so accommodating?

It just seemed to me that Lauer and Viera were doing their best to find as much negative stuff to say as possible. So sad for them and so sad for the standing and reputation of the USA within the international community.