re: #134 dentate

Thank you, Lawhawk. You make the point well. George Will may have raised the subject with partisan motivations, but the fact remains that the speeches were poorly designed, both in content and (I would argue) in style, to persuade judges to award the prize. Will’s criticism simply touches on a statistical gimmick that is related to speech content.

The Olympic thing is not a conservative/liberal argument. They just made a poor argument.

The Olympic thing boils down to this: $4.8 billion bid by Chicago versus $12.8 billion bid by Rio. End of story.