About those ads, Mr. President...

No. Not the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth ads that you've been hearing about so much of late. No, this concerns an interesting development I heard by way of the Prager show this morning. It seems the U.S. Olympic Committee has decided that enough is enough--they're demanding that the Bush campaign stop airing certain ads that besmirch the trademark of the Olympics. What's at issue? Apparently the committee cares more about their supposed trademark infringement than about the millions of Iraqis and Afghanis freed from the thralldom of Muslim tyrannies.

The Bush ads mention that as of this current contest of Olympic athletes, there will be two new, free democratic countries joining the international community to engage in "The Games": Afghanistan and Iraq. That simple declaration of two of the greatest achievements to come out of the post-9/11 American show of resolve is just too much for the committee. They claim the the mention of the two liberated countries in relation to the Olympics amounts to an infringement of the Olympic trademark.

As Prager pointed out, the committee has a long history of amoral, upside-down judgment; they were more than happy to welcome Hitler in the famed games during his ascendancy into a world terror. They were also strangely silent at the murder of Jewish athletes at the Munich games of '72 and, in fact, insisted that the "games must go on," pausing neither to condemn the perpetrators or commemorate the slain Israelis even to this day. It wasn't too surprising then that they also remained sotto voce when the USSR rolled into Afghanistan.

But how dare President Bush invoke the good name of the Olympics to bolster his campaign efforts? This is, for the committee, one of those rare moments in history to stand up and be counted! THIS is an act for which the committee must break its time-honored silence and speak up! Hitler may have been a megalomaniac responsible for the deaths of millions, but this Bush fellow, well...we all have our limits...

The twisted reasoning and contorted ethos that the committee must put itself through to justify this unbelievable stance is a stretch that threatens to snap the sinews of conscience. This is no ordinary display of ethics. It's a feat of moral gymnastics worthy of an Olympic athlete.

(Let the committee know how you feel at media@usoc.org)