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On Tuesday’s edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Michael Medved spent the first portion of the first hour explaining why he openly and unapologetically celebrated the failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympic games to Chicago.

With his usual blend of passion and articulation, he said:

The notion that we were celebrating when Chicago was turned away from hosting the Olympics was not because we were celebrating a defeat for America.

We were celebrating a victory for America!

It is a bad thing to host the Olympics. Look at the bloody record, for goodness’ sake! Look at the recent cities that have hosted the Olympics.

It’s done wonders for Athens.

It’s one of the reasons , by the way, the Socialists just won in Greece – because the whole country, and the whole economy, was screwed up … They spent everything, tax money, on hosting the Olympics, and it does no good for ordinary people.

Look, I thought folks on the left were opposed to corporate welfare. The Olympics are the ultimate form of corporate welfare.

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I don’t like the Olympics. I despise them. I think it’s a scam.

Good for him.

The intellectual heavyweights of the left who have the chutzpah to equate patriotism with support for bringing the Olympic Games to Chicago not only sound preposterously desperate in their attempts to demonize Republicans, they simply haven’t a leg to stand (or wobble) on when attempting to convince the rest of us how much America has “lost.”

To hear it from Leftocrats, the ramifications of the cataclysm that was Chicago’s rejcetion will linger for a long time.

How America will endeavor to survive such a crushing blow is unclear.

Maybe some more government expansion.

Incidentally, the highlight of that portion of the Medved show was a caller from Chicago – a Police Officer named John who shed a little light on why the Games bypassing the Windy City was a good thing.

He said:

I just want to make a couple of quick points. I actually live in Chicago. I work for the Chicago Police Department, and I can tell you this: Most of the cops I know wanted no part of these Olympics. We’re already stretched as it is. Daley hasn’t hired any cops for a long time. We normally lose three to four hundred a year to attrition. This past year, they’ve hired about fifty. So, we’re outmanned on the street. Something as big as the Olympics would take more than we could handle, unless (Daley) decided to go really really crazy on the hiring, which I don’t see happening. Last year, he cut back on plowing and salting the streets. Every dime he could get was going toward this Olympic dream …

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This would not have been a good thing. And anybody who says we were being unpatriotic is crazy. The people who live far away – some of the people who wanted it here – it’s easy to want something when it doesn’t cost you anything.

Well done, Officer John – right from the Hog Butcher’s mouth.

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