Remember Comrade Joshua?  The blabbering twit from the Opening Ceremonies that NBC brought on to provide “expert” analysis of the games?  His full name is Joshua Cooper-Ramo.

I owe Mr. Cooper-Ramo an apology.  Turns out he’s not a ChiCom agent.  He’s a capitalist tool, brought to you by. . .wait for it. . . Henry Kissinger:

When Lauer asked Ramo if the Games would change China, he replied, “I think China is changed irrevocably after these 17 days. It is a full aware part of the international community and they know that their behavior in that community is going to have to be different than in the past.”

So who is Ramo? According to a recent piece in the Albuquerque Journal, he “works as a managing director and partner at the Beijing office of Kissinger Associates.” Which explains a lot.

Shouldn’t NBC identify Ramo as an employee of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is one of the Americans closest to the Chinese leadership and whose business involves opening doors for Western companies seeking to do business in China?

Kudos to Ken Silverstein at Harper’s, who followed up my post by doing some actual reporting.  I should try that sometime.

And in case you missed it, Hank the Knife was at the Olympics too, hanging with Dubya and his crew.  Just goes to show that war criminals know how to get into all the best parties.

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