Riffing on Michelle Obama’s 2008 quote, but seriously. Look at this crap. These are the 2012 US Olympic opening ceremony outfits.
Glenn says these uniforms look like something from an SNL skit in which America has turned into a gay dictatorship. Hard to argue with that, except to note that it’s not entirely fair: Gay men dress better than this. And look at the frumpy neck thing on the female uniform. Is she supposed to look like a 90 year old librarian in a cheap stewardess Halloween costume? Are the men supposed to look like snappy waiters on George Hamilton’s yacht?
As for the beret, it is possible to look tough while wearing one.
Ralph Lauren wasn’t quite going for the John Wayne look with that colorful striped sash on the hats, though.
These uniforms are a total fail, no matter where they were made. That they were made in China is just the second reason to put them in a pile and burn them.
American Olympic uniforms should always include a cowboy hat. But the rest of the costume should not be inspired by the Village People.
Cowboy hat isn’t bad, but how about a turn for American farmers: http://www.johndeeregifts.com/product/hats/mens/black+john+deere+dual+flame+cap+.do
The flamed John Deer caps would look good if only they were red white and blue. Maybe something with a Walmart logo? OK, stick with the cowboy hats.
It would be edifying to pile up everything that Harry Reid owns that’s not made in the US of A and burn it.
Actually, I like it, except for the beret (which is just not an American piece of gear). It’s the beret that makes the entire thing a true disaster for these socialist new men. Otherwise people would think it incredibly manly (though the tie needs a different scheme). The hat that should have been used is a either a straw fedora or, much more preferably, a straw Missippi River Gambler’s hat. It works for the season and the rest of the look, is identifiably very American in tone, has a certain amount of rough-and-ready attitude combined with elegance that would work for the athletes, and for one quadrennial the cowboy hat gets passed up (because you can beat something to death).
And about the Ralph Lauren logo: The place it has–the left chest–is supposed to be the spot where that thing that identifies you the most is placed. I don’t care how much money they pay in sponsorship fees–this is not the United States of Polo. I’m sorry the company couldn’t afford a little humilty. It is not bigger than the United States.
Manolo doesn’t need help, does he?
Or for that matter, Ralph Lauren?
By the way, I think Harry Reid is a little off base. If our deficit spending is going to be “made in China”, why shouldn’t everything else be too?
It’s the Olympics, the ultimate sporting celebration of internationalism. I bet when Romney was running the Olympics in 2000 the player uniforms as well as the TVs we watched the players on were outsourced. For that matter, Obama has outsourced going to the International Space Station, going to the moon, hell, even the Texas Desertron was shut down and Clinton outsourced the discovery of the Higgs Boson to the Hadron Collider while under the desk with Monica playing with his Macanudo.
Monica really missed a trick there. She should have started her own line of “hand-dipped” cigars with the motto “It tastes good!”
TV bit I saw included a keffiyah kind of scarf as well.
Levis, t-shirts, golf hats all work for me.
And seriously, the polo logo?
Burn it all.
But, but, but these beautiful new uniforms represent the Multicultural, Metro sexual non-nationalistic
unUnited States. Besides, think of the horrid contribution to global warming produced by burning them. That alone is a disgrace.There is only one thing to call Chinese made, Obama-inspired, Olympic wear.
Choomiforms.
I didn’t think it would be possible to make Heather Mitts so, well, unsexy. That is Heather Mitts, isn’t it?
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“multicultural”? Only one black, who probably was born American. Bi-racial: black and white. Truly multi-racial will show a brown face and a yellow face. Multicultural? A burqa for the woman?
Shades of communist youth posters. The uniforms were made in China but who designed them?
The flag looks out of place in that picture. These look like Frenchman.
This is the Internationalists future one-world uniform. This is their wet dream. It is so obvious, once you think about it.
This is the U.S. Olympic Team, not the Royal Air Force.
A pitch perfect depiction of masculinity in the age of Obama…
i’m getting premonitions similar to the seinfeld episode where george has all the yankee uniforms made out of cotton
the uniforms then shrink and the players are unable to move in them
these models are of the heroinshiek mold and i am stifling giggles as to what our weightlifting team (among others) will look like in these
Air France cabin crew, circa 1981
Who in the US approved these poor imitations of a military uniform?
Some proggy bureaucrat no doubt.
Sombreros and a Mexican flag would be more accurate.
That thought crossed my mind too.
What, no T-shirts with Barack the Sun King’s grinning face on it?
No gigantic “O” logo?
No hammer-and-sickle?
No Islamic Moon-and-Star?
Berets were done before, for the February 2002 ceremony. I suppose that was shortly after 9/11 and we were very friendly with the French…
If we don’t have the stomach for cowboy hats, we should at least have them wear baseball hats.
Americans of both sexes and all ages wear tee shirts, jeans, gym shoes, and baseball caps. That would have been a far better uniform than this, and instantly recognizable.
But no hoodies, please!
Somehow they just don’t look American. — If the guy in front were not holding our flag, I’d have had a hard time guessing where they’re from. Could be anywhere. These uniforms somehow just don’t confer any identity, or unity.
That thing on their heads is definitely French Communist chic.
If all these commies love France so much, why don’t they all move there?
They always threaten…hardly ever deliver.
It looks like an advertisement for joining the Sea Org.
Another freakin’ disaster, they look like Navy wannabees (with apologies to the Navy). I am confident that our athletes will make the best of this, we’re not giving them much to work with. And the polo logo, as ridiculous as the beret.
” . . . America has turned into a gay dictatorship.”
Truer words rarely spoken etc
You mean we’re NOT a gay dictatorship?
When 3% of the population ride roughshod over the religious social, moral, ethical and political institutions of a nation, just what the hell is it?
It’s about power.
It’s ALWAYS about power.
THAT’S why it’s a mental disorder, not because they fancy other men’s tooshies.
Psychiatrists used to know this.
Some still do.
Yup. And the mental illness stems from the left.
No having your own beliefs now, sex is NOT to be a procreative act, open to new life… pfft that is so neanderthal man. Don’t you dare go teaching your kids those kind of breeder values.
Read “Ecoscience” by John Holdren, if only it was just an SNL comedy skit.
What can you do? It’s hard to compete with workers who are subjected to forced abortions, they are so much more productive, that’s really all that matters isn’t it. Maybe everyone should just give up their families and work round the clock, you know for the greater good, the collective, the Economy. You are just a number meant to collect tax revenue from.
You work hard, 10 hours a day to become the best. To rise to international competition level in your chosen sport. When you’ve made it, when you’ve beat out all the others, when you think you’ve won. They bring in this “uniform” you must wear to compete. You are torn between your dreams and ugly fashion.
What idiot wears Ralph Lauren? His clothes all make you look like a citizen in a gay dictatorship. One with a gay dictator who has no fashion sense, like North Korea.
How about we just say no, to Ralph Lauren designed clothes from now on.
“Are you a CITIZEN!”
The day Barry S. was elected was the first time in my adult life I was not proud of my country & Dumbo has not let me down.
I’m still proud of my country, it’s just the government, and those who cling to it in the name of power, that are an embarrassment. The same goes for a few states and really most big cities where liberals congregate. Truth be told though, it’s rather hard to consider those places as even still American as they have gone so far away from what America was meant to be and they are still running left as fast as they can.
You are correct, the idiotic decisions by the US Olympic committee does translate to America.
If there were ever a reason to boycott the Olympics, this is it. I can understand the athletes not wanting to risk their hopes and dreams but it sure would have been nice if they’d thrown this trash back in the committees face with a “h… NO!”
except for that stupid scarf. The guys, however, are all Obama dolls.
That is, if each one had as many sticking out of him as he’s had stuck in him, he’d look like a porcupine.
First thought when I saw them?
” Air France cabin crew”
I got that too.
Boring and generic, if that’s the best Ralph Lauren can come up with it’s time he left the game (or got tested for the onset of Alzheimer’s).
Wow I guess Bryan you must of been really upset when Romney had some uniforms made in Burma back in 2002 when they were a pretty bad country in how they treated their people. Oh wait when Romney does it that’s ok!