Why watch the Olympics?

Want to know why I'm looking forward to the Olympics? Because China desperately wants things to go well sooo badly, but they will inevitably turn into the biggest fiasco of the last 30 years. Lets go through the list of things that have already gone wrong before the games have even started.

• After spending an unfathomable sum to produce the most extravagant and showy Opening Ceremonies ever, some South Korean news station managed to tape an entire dress rehearsal of the event and leaked it onto the Internet. This is pretty funny because China manages to keep it's entire population cut off from any information that paints the government in a negative light. They are the masters of deception and censorship, yet they couldn't ensure that their opening ceremonies didn't get taped by a local news cameraman.
• After promising everyone involved that the Chinese government would not interfere with the international press or their coverage of the event, reporters who arrived in Beijing found that they couldn't access most of the Internet. Oh, and the Chinese also informed NBC, which payed an ungodly sum for the right to cover the games, that they would be limiting the amount of hours NBC will be able to show live. Oh, and they wouldn't release the menus, and getting visas proved to be pretty tough....So reporters are definitely going to write nice things about the Chinese government
• The Chinese government tried to mask the visually unappealing parts of Beijing (ie those communities ravaged by poverty) by putting giant billboards in front of them...the press noticed...
  
• The torch relay was interrupted by massive protests in Tibet...which turned into riots. Needless to say, the torch relay ceased to be the story after people started looting.
• The athletes apparently were not joking about the masks. Athletes showed up in Beijing yesterday wearing black surgeons masks so they wouldn't have to breathe the "toxic" air. I'm sure the Chinese are going to be pumped about athletes running races in those bad boys so that the only thing anyone watching thinks about is how "toxic" China is
• On a more positive note: China's going to allow protests, except not really since you have to have a permit and you can only protest in a ten yard box located six hundred miles from any press

If these sorts of stories are any indication of things to come, you should tune in. You see, old habits die hard. That's why even though the Chinese are playing nice and allowing protest (sort of) and are resisting their desire to censor media coverage of the Games (sort of), I predict that we are going to see the Chinese government as it truly is at some point. I imagine the scenario playing out something like this: NBC will be doing one of it's live news broadcasts from Beijing and during the broadcast, some protester will get past security and run behind news anchor Brian Williams and hold up a sign that says something like "Free Tibet." The Chinese security officials at the scene will panic and their training will take over. The guards will tackle the protester and beat him senseless with Brian Williams and the entire NBC audience watching in horror. Then, those of us viewing at home will see the screen go black. Five minutes later, an NBC executive will come on air and announce that the Chinese government has confiscated all of NBC's video cameras and equipment, and that the government has arrested Brian Williams.
While it might not play out exactly this way, something entertaining is going to happen. This is why I will sit through all of the boring hours of coverage of obscure sports. Eventually, this thing is going to turn into a circus, baby! So come on China, we all know you don't give a damn about human rights or the West's perception of your government, so let your true colors shine. Let the games begin!