Oceania Has Always Been At War With Eastasia

It’s no secret that the NYTimes is a temple of worship to The Dear Leader, but even by O-bot media standards, the Times’ latest move is just plain creepy.

When the NYTimes first reported that Chicago lost its Olympic bid by receiving the fewest votes of any of the finalists, the NYTimes story read like this:

[Obama] put Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to work making calls and sent Michelle Obama to Copenhagen a couple days early to buttonhole committee members. On Air Force One with him Friday, Mr. Obama brought a couple cabinet officers from Illinois, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, as well as Senator Dick Durban. Before leaving Washington, Mrs. Obama made clear how seriously the first couple took the matter.

“Take no prisoners,” she vowed.

After his formal presentation to the committee, Mr. Obama shook hands as he left the room, then joined members in a brief mixer, pigeonholing them one on one for the Chicago bid, a little elbow bending familiar to politics the world over.

And the prospect of winning was too irresistible. After all, Mr. Obama has already envisioned the day when he could welcome the world to his hometown, never mind that small matter of reelection. “In 2016, I’ll be wrapping up my second term as president,” he told a rally in Chicago in June 2008. “So I can’t think of a better way than to be marching into Washington Park ... as president of the United States and announcing to the world: Let the Games begin!”

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As he made his pitch, the Republican National Committee back home sent out an email attacking him under the subject line “Wrong Priorities.” The Republican statement cited a variety of news stories and commentaries to suggest that the president was busy with the Olympics but not tackling unemployment, that the Olympics actually cost the cities that host them and that several advisers and allies would be the ones to benefit.

“They shouldn’t try to make politics of this,” Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff and a Chicagoan himself, told ABC News. “I think they should take some pride in the U.S.’s win, and you know, we’ll make sure they get some good seats once Chicago does host the games.”

But when I went to the NYTimes this morning, the story was gone. Poof!  Disappeared like a witness against Whitey Bulger. 

It’s been replaced by a far less embarrassing tale of President Obama’s arrogant gaffe.  As the blogger who caught this re-writing of history notes, “Now there is no mention of BO's 'end of second term' quote or Rahm's 'good seats' quote. There is no mention of Cabinet Members or Dick Durban flying over with BO.” 

Interestingly the new story does add that President Obama met with Gen. McChrystal on the trip.  But the gloating, the presidential swagger, the embarrassing facts that half the cabinet went along and we still got pounded—gone.

I went to the Times website and searched for the original story.  Not there.  The new story isn’t an update or re-write.  It’s the NEW new version of history. Try it for yourself and see.

We’ve always been at war with Eastasia…and nobody every really thought Chicago was going to get the Olympics. President Obama didn’t really try.  In fact, he never even WENT to Copenhagen—it’s a lie being spread by the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy to embarrass him!

One more fact of note: While some O-bots have tried to blame the defeat on lingering Bush hatred around the world, a NYTimes blogger admits the following:

So, one is tempted to ask, why is that back in the height of the Bush presidency in 2005, New York at least made it to the second round of voting in its bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games, yet on Friday, despite the personal efforts of not just the First Family but Oprah as well, Chicago didn’t even clear the first hurdle?

Don’t worry, NYTimes.  By the time you’re done “reporting” the story, claiming that Chicago ever wanted the Olympics will be a hate crime.