Comments on: Morrissey’s Latest Target: the London Olympic Games 2012

By: monty

monty — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:28:55 +0000

PS: I thought the closing ceremony was a lot less jingoistic and much more about having fun, though George Michael’s shameless plugging of his brand new product was sickening. For me, Eric Idle was the star of the show and I would have liked his wonderful song to have closed the music part of the ceremony rather than an elderly rocker who was placed on the sex offenders register for five years for accessing child pornography on the internet. The speedy rehabilitation of Mr Townshend and his seriously tarnished image by the media and events organisers is nothing short of astounding. Doubtless he will receive a knighthood in due course and his wrongdoing will be erased from the media memory for all time. Arise Sir Pete for services to…

By: monty

monty — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:26:41 +0000

PS: I thought the closing ceremony was a lot less jingoistic and much more about having fun, though George Michael’s shameless plugging of his brand new product was sickening. For me, Eric Idle was the star of the show and I would have liked his wonderful song to have closed the music part of the ceremony rather an elderly rocker who was placed on the sex offenders register for five years for accessing child pornography on the internet. The speedy rehabilitation of Mr Townshend and his seriously tarnished image by the media and events organisers is nothing short of astounding. Doubtless he will receive a knighthood in due course and his wrongdoing will be erased from the media memory for all time. Arise Sir Pete for services to…

By: monty

monty — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:40:18 +0000

“Funny how no public figure has agreed with Morrissey’s comments.”

Nothing funny or strange about that. Public figures rarely if ever speak out against the royals because it will hinder their careers and their hopes of awards in the honours list. Public figures are mostly upwardly aspiring brown-nosers when it comes to royalty. I admire Morrissey’s anti-royal statements which he has been making throughout his career, including his time in The Smiths. I agree with him about “blustering jingoism” too. I watched half of the Olympic opening ceremony and then had to switch off because of an acute attack of nationalistic nausea. But in his comparison with the Berlin Olympics, Morrissey is guilty of a wretched reductio ad Hitlerium.

By: rupahuq

rupahuq — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:35:08 +0000

Thanks Paul and James. Funny how no public figure has agreed with Morrissey’s comments. Have posted this link on Facebook too where someone said he’s been wrong on race for 20 years. He shows a complete lack of any sense of proportion. Still he’s always good for a shocking quote if that’s what you’re after.

By: James Walrus

James Walrus — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:25:33 +0000

Yes, this Olympics exudes glossy ‘multiculturalism’! And when the mushy patriotic sentimentality is milked for all it’s worth in screwing over poor people and poor countries, I wonder who will be more ‘multicultural’: the screwed-over or the screwers-over…? (And the screwed-over won’t necessarily have gorgeous exotic pecs!)

By: Paul Burgin

Paul Burgin — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:35:55 +0000

But Morrisey has always been curmudgoenly! I suspect his Irish blood/English heart song is the most autobiographical in terms of his torn feelings of things patriotic! The thing to remember about the Berlin Olympics is that Jewish athletes were forbidden from competing for Germany and Hitler refused to meet Jesse Owens. Do we see such behaviour from the UK? No!

By: James Walrus

James Walrus — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:31:11 +0000

I’m sure the Berlin Olymics in 1936 generated “enormous goodwill” and involved a “warms-cockles-of-your-heart” opening ceremony as well as an “inescapable feelgood factor.” Maybe Morrissey’s expat status allows him to be more objective as we can be now about Berlin.