Here is a really good take down of the media’s love affair with Kim Yo-jong at this year’s Winter Olympics:
After a slow start, the media has its designated bad guy at the Winter Olympics. No sooner had Shaun White won the half-pipe than he became the snowboarding version of Harvey Weinstein.
Stories surfaced of sexual harassment allegations made against White in 2016. Reporters went into full #MeToo mode, repeating salacious details from a lawsuit filed by Lena Zawaideh, the former drummer in White’s rock band.
White’s dark background suddenly became the Big Story. I’m not here to defend White. If he did what was alleged, it is indefensible.
I’m just wondering why the selective outrage?
When it comes to dark backgrounds, the gold, silver and bronze medals at Pyeongchang all go to Kim Yo Jong. She is the sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, though from media reports you might only know her as “The Ivanka Trump of North Korea.”
Yeah, she’s just like the president’s daughter except for the death camps, the mass enslavement, the public executions, the starvation of her people, the torture and murder of a U.S. student Otto Warmbier and the threats to turn California into a nuclear wasteland. [Orlando Sentinel]
You can read more at the link, but not only shouldn’t Kim Yo-jong be celebrated, but she and the rest of the North Koreans should not have been even allowed to even attend the Olympics. Apartheid South Africa was not allowed to attend the Olympics and they did not have no where near the same level of human rights violations as the Kim regime. Additionally Apartheid South Africa was not a threat to world peace like the Kim regime. Yet during the years of Apartheid did anyone see political and media figures championing that regime like we saw during the Winter Olympics with Kim Yo-jong?