MRC: Media’s Most Biased & Bizarre Olympic Moments

In the spirit of the games, the most outrageous journalists are competing with each other in three events for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals

MRC: Media's Most Biased & Bizarre Olympic Moments (NewsBusters)

Sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from reporters covering the games. Over the years the MRC has documented lefty reporters and writers using the games to celebrate socialist policies, bash expressions of patriotism and even work in jabs against Republicans, like when Bryant Gumbel, in 2006, complained that the “paucity” of black athletes “makes the Winter Games look like a GOP convention.”

In the spirit of the games, the most outrageous journalists are competing with each other in three events for the Gold, Silver and Bronze medals. Today's competition: The “We Salute the Socialist Policies of the Host Nation Event.” Click the Read More button to see who takes home the gold! Will it be Matt Lauer? Harry Smith? Or a surprising dark horse?

The “We Salute the Socialist Policies of the Host Nation” Event.

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