I really don’t care if this is a hoax but, pleeeaassseee oh please, let it be true.
This article was forwarded to me and gobsmacked it is:
Alabama Legislator Angry That “State of Georgia” Allowed in Olympics
I mean really:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Friday afternoon, Alabama State Senator Fred Q. Calhoun, (R-Delbert, Ala.) published an open letter to the International Olympic Committee’s President, Thomas Bach, complaining that it was unfair for the committee to allow only one U.S. state to participate as an independent team in this year’s Summer Olympic Games.
“As I was watching last night’s Olympic games with my family, I was stunned to see that Georgia was permitted to participate as an independent entity,” penned the freshman lawmaker.
And his constituents chimed in:
Sic: “Thank you for always standing up 4 us… For them bunch of communists running the Olympics to allow UGA to field teams and not Alabama is jsut wrong. Glad your seating them strait.” commented one Facebook fan of the lawmaker.
Words fail — as obviously does the US educational system.