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The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US
(www.theguardian.com)
Next they'll be dubbing in wild applause.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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more like sieg heils.
"Seig heil" to the president Gas Man
Don't criticize your government!
I watched it live and heard boos and the announcers mentioned it.
The replay did not have that part.
This was in the US
North Korea, China, Russia does the same with their leaders … this is what is America now.
I’d like to go one day without reading or hearing about that fucking country.
I live here and same. Absolute clown shoes, but like penny wise clown, not the funny kind. I want off this roller coaster.
Long ago, many people said they would move to Canada. I wonder if they did, though.
Unfortunately, as much as I want to avoid it, almost everything including the world economy, is so heavily tied to that country.
Try living in that fucking country your entire life
Amen brother! 🙌
*singing baby shark, but replasing "baby shark" with "chicken shit".
I would like to give a sincere thank you to the rest of the world for reminding the assistant manager of the "free" world what freedom is supposed to sound like.
Im in the us and left the a short form video of a loop on it at my house for like an hour.
You should make a YouTube or some kind of downloadable or playable clip of that. I would nab it right up.
i was playing it from youtube. I don't actually have a recording myself.
Does anyone have a link where we can listen to Vance and Israel being booed?
It's not as great as the news is making it out. Yes there are some boos in the midst of cheers and whistles, but it's mild.
https://bsky.app/profile/factpostnews.bsky.social/post/3me7wgje5ie2f
Yeah that video only has audio from the announcers mic, crowd noise just comes though as a roar.
The most important thing is that he heard it.
Yeah, ok, he has no shame but even the shameless don't like the idea of strangers just booing them for being there.
Yeah but instead of "I'm bad" he will just be like "everyone at the Olympics was a piece of shit"
"It's proof of just how much we're winning, they're booing because they're jealous of our success and freedoms"
I'm a huge fan of booing for exactly the reason you said. Sometimes I do it solo at work when someone does something really ridiculous. I feel like this world cup series in America could get kinda wild and no ones really considering it.
I've watched a handful of videos now and I really don't hear a significant amount of boos
Yeah I was expecting like when the orange pedo went to that football game a few months ago, with resounding boos from the entire crowd.
My country is trash.
I wish the red coats could come and save us
Brown coats forever!
The red coats are the monarchists, that's what Trump's wants to be, you need a revolution from your government with well regulated militias of social Democrats to fight the Nazis in power.
Whatever I just want to be like Europe. The US is a shit hole
Unfortunately your shithole and the Eurasian shithole known as Russia are both working hard to turn Europe into another shithole, and it's fucking working too…
I know. At least Canada resisted, so there is hope. I'd be happier if England rejoined the union
But if everything is shit, then the billionaires can save us by selling us soap!
By renting us soap you mean
You're right! Why should I have to maintain my own *checks notes* ...soap.
They won't rent us soap, its hard to rent a consumable product, but they will sell us a subscription.
its hard to rent a consumable product
Oh they'll find a way
Yeah, as much as I'm situationally on my own country's side right now, I probably would have been a Patriot.
Doctors Without Borders?
That's because viewers in the US drowned out the boos with their own lol.
Also yes editing live broadcasts for propaganda purposes super bad.
Trump said, "He doesn't get booed in the U.S."
Yeah because people who would boo him don't go to his speaking events. I would protest outside but I wouldn't go to hear him speak.
NBC said they didn’t do anything. I was watching something online which was specifically supposed to be showing the booing but I couldn’t hear it either. It was obviously there because there’s been so much about it, maybe it was about where the mics were.
My understanding is that the host country supplies the feeds for all events. Broadcasters that get the rights to broadcast are choosing what feeds to broadcast, adding their own commentary, doing their own editing. They also film their own "local" interest and interviews. Host countries can't have each broadcaster fighting over where to place cameras, etc. The sound would have been part of the host country's live feed. I saw a small snippet of the CBC (Canada) broadcast and the commentators commented on the booing when the feed showed Vance, but it was hard to hear in the broadcast itself. I think the issue is that while the other broadcasters acknowledged it, NBC did not. I did not see the NBC snippet myself.
They commentators mentioned it as it was happening too. Likely not nbcs, but the video I saw they did
That was probably cbc. Their reaction has been shared a lot.
It was quiet on feeds. I could hear it on headphones, but on tinny built-in speakers you probably couldn't.
It didn't feel like a particularly malicious edit to me, though. The commentators were obviously avoiding politics, perhaps under order, so not bringing it up is consistent.
Politicians: their cushy salaries keep them oblivious & indifferent to anyone's negative opinions.
also except for viewers in italy