Drudge on 2016 Olympics: World Rejects Obama

And so it begins.

Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins did a fine job, the other day, of cataloging the right’s sudden antipathy for chants of “USA! USA! USA!”  Now, with the news that the IOC has rejected Chicago’s 2016 Olympic bid in the first round, conservatives are in the awkward position of trying to slam the President for failing to achieve the very thing they just said was a horrible waste of time.

First up to the spinning plate, naturally, is Matt Drudge, who immediately ran the headline “World Rejects Obama.”  No word yet on which media outlet will run “Mission Accomplished:Conservative Anti-Olympic Campaign Succeeds.”

On the other hand, CNN went almost immediately to some fancy backspin.  In this clip, you can hear the CNN anchor’s stunned reaction:

Quickly thereafter, however, he unspools some righteous backpedaling:

“Cities lose money hosting Olympic games, so maybe there’s a bit of a blessing in disguise here…”

They also have an article to that effect that was posted on CNN.com shortly after the announcement.  All that remains now is for someone to blame Bush, and someone else to call the IOC “racist.”

In case any of you still cares, the IOC has now voted to award the 2016 Olympics to Rio de Janiero.

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