Thank God the athletes have arrived! Now we can move on from leftie multi-cultural crap. Bring back red arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones! — Aidan Burley MP

Aidan Burley used to be a ministerial bag carrier until forced to resign when he attended a party of neo-Nazis.

Maybe it was time his constituency deselected him and he was kicked out of the party.

Maybe he can find a new job as bag carrier for Romney.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19025518

The most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen – more than Beijing, the capital of a communist state! Welfare tribute next?—
Aidan Burley MP (@AidanBurleyMP) July 27, 2012

Thank God the athletes have arrived! Now we can move on from leftie multi-cultural crap. Bring back red arrows, Shakespeare and the Stones!—
Aidan Burley MP (@AidanBurleyMP) July 27, 2012

The rapid take down of Olympic footage from youtube is yet another example of the obscenity of corporate sponsorship of the London 2012 Olympics.

http://keithpp.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/whose-games/

Another example is that many seats in venues are empty.

Why?

Because these were seats allocated to corporate sponsors who could not be bothered to take up their seats.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19028979

These are seats that could and should have gone to the public who may actually have an interest in sport.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19028574

We know what the reaction would be. All hell would break lose.

The day after the Olympics were awarded to London in Singapore, bombings took place in London on the Tube and on a bus. I travelled on that Tube line not long after 7/7 and it was like riding a ghost train.

The opening ceremony had a tribute to those who died. NBC edited it out from what they broadcast in the US.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbc-cuts-out-olympic-tribute-to-terrorism-victims-during-opening-ceremonies-for-american-viewers/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19037588

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http://j.mp/PTnwu0 (L.A. Times)

“It was never our intent to live stream the Opening Ceremony or
Closing Ceremony. They are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our
award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time
audiences that gather together to watch them.”

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Oh give me a break, guys. I watched most of the opening on a BBC feed stream that had no commentary whatsoever — not even the endlessly chattering BBC talking heads on the main BBC One feed. I had absolutely no trouble understanding the event, even for purely UK elements like their tribute to the National Health Service (over here, we’d have a tribute to insurance companies and greed instead).

No NBC, U.S. audiences aren’t more stupid than the rest of the world that was watching the opening live. Nor are we stupid enough to not understand that your real concern was slicing and dicing the events for prime time and your own inane commentary, loaded down with commercials.

At least be honest about it. And by the way, you might want to
learn who Tim Berners-Lee is when he’s being featured at the
Olympics. He like, invented the World Wide Web.

Big Time Fail.

– Lauren Weinstein

Danny Boyle had told the BBC not to chat over his show, nevertheless BBC One had three studio presenters who seemed determined to ruin the show with their moronic chatter.

Not though as bad as the poor quality video Michael Moore posted from a US network.

Yes we Brits are proud of our NHS, even though the ConDem government seems determined to destroy the NHS. We cannot understand the crass stupidity of Americans who support a system that is bad for health care and only benefits the private health care companies.

I suspect the London 2012 Opening Ceremony was not streamed for two reasons:

- networks could not cope
- did not want to pay for the rights

BBC estimate a peak audience of 26.9 million people watched the opening ceremony. This was at the beginning, it then dropped to 19 million. Could this be because people got pissed off with the irritating chat?

To put the figure in context the peak figure for England v Italy Euro2012 was 23 million.

For UK only, can watch again …

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live-video/p00wm0br