Harry Reid on Team USA’s Chinese-Made Olympic Uniforms: ‘Put Them in a Big Pile & Burn Them’
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Madeleine Morgenstern
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday he believes Team USA's Chinese-made opening ceremony uniforms should be burned. (AP)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is so disgusted that the U.S. Olympic athletes will be wearing uniforms made in China that he thinks the outfits should be burned.
“I am so upset,” the Nevada Democrat told reporters Thursday. “I think the Olympic Committee should be ashamed of themselves. I think they should be embarrassed. I think they should take all the uniforms and put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again.”
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He added, “If they have to wear nothing but a singlet with ‘USA’ on it painted by hand, that’s what they should wear.”
ABC News reported Wednesday that no part of the Ralph Lauren-designed opening ceremony uniform was made in America.
“We have people in America, in the textile industry, who are desperate for jobs,” Reid said. “What the Olympic Committee did is absolutely wrong.”
Asked why the athletes’ uniforms were not manufactured in the states, the U.S. Olympic Committee told ABC: “The U.S. Olympic team is privately funded and we’re grateful for the support of our sponsors. We’re proud of our partnership with Ralph Lauren, an iconic American company.”
Bradley Scott, a New York fashion designer, told The Blaze in an email he found the “Made in China” labels “simply embarrassing.”
“Besides the trade imbalance that exists, we consistently accuse China of slave labor, an underage workforce, forced abortions, imprisonment, manipulation of currency, state controlled media and livelihood,” Scott wrote. “Yet, we contract them to make the uniforms to clothe athletes that represent our country which stands for everything the Chinese do not.”
He pointed to first lady Michelle Obama’s past championing of young American designers, and said those who contribute to the president’s re-election campaign “should be livid they were not asked to do this.”
“Are they only good for dressing the first lady when she wants to make a statement?” Scott said.
Lauren’s Team USA opening ceremony uniforms are similar to the ones he designed for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, which also featured blazers and berets.
From ABC, here’s a breakdown of how much each item is retailing for online:
Men:
Beret – $55
Tie – $125
Belt – $85
Shirt – $425
Blazer – $795
Trousers – $295
Shoes – $165Women:
Beret – $55
Scarf – $58
Belt – $85
Shirt – $179
Skirt – $498
Blazer – $598
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Comments (239)
TheEDGE
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:07pmWhat’s next? Nancy Pelosi starting a USA chant at the opening ceremonies?
Report Post »Angel_light
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:23pmThey should have had them made by 1791!
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:24pmHave 1791 make them right here in the good ol US of A!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:36pmGod .. never thought it would happen … I AGREE WITH HARRY REID … mark this day .. I doubt it will ever be repeated! btw .. what’s up with the beret (I know the Army has them too) .. HOW ABOUT A COWBOY HAT .. more AMERICAN … or a 3 CORNER HAT EVEN BETTER!
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:41pmThey would be a lot cheaper if made by 1791 and would be made with heart!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:47pmAnyone remember this TV commercial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkLhVo3PbY
Those uniforms make them look Chinese. And the cost? Outrageous!
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:51pmYes, they should have been made in the USA. But if they check the labels of the other 215 countries participating in the Olympics, they’ll be hard pressed to find labels other than “made in China”
Report Post »Make them stop
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:02pmNow all of the sudden there are concerned with something made in the USA. A little too late A*&H$#E. He is trying to save his job, we need to fire him.
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:20pmForget where they were made, they look like Nazi garb or Hitler youth crap
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:21pmThis is an outrage !!!!!
Their are at least three U.S. Uniform Manufacturing Companies that I can name off the top of my head, that would have loved, to have made the U.S. Olympic Team Uniforms.
Fechheimer/ Flying Cross
Blauer Uniform
Martin’s Uniforms
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:26pmWill WONDERS never cease? You mean to tell me, I’m in agreement with Harry Reid?
Harry, I appreciate this, but you have to do a bunch more to prove you’re not an android.
Report Post »I haven’t stopped laughing at that Pelosi babe making a fool out of you, rolling her eyes when you put your arm on her shoulder. Instead of understanding her rude brush off, you keep sniffing at her existence. This is your 1st step getting smarter.
mils
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:48pmso why is this no all over the news????
Report Post »this is totally out of line!…a US team, in chinese garb..like the berets they had made in china a few years ago!!!
turkey13
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:56pmThe Olympic Committee only has so much money for uniforms. Ralph Lauren was cramed down their throats by Jo Biden(Good Friend). These same uniforms made here in the USA would be 3 times as much. Ralph Lauren’s name on them is what is costing so much money. If you supplied Fruit of the Loom underwear with Lauren’s tag on it it would be at least $45.00 bucks each.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:14pmWe need to out those who made the decision to use this design (THEY LOOK MORE FRENCH THAN AMERICAN) and then have them made in China.
Can’t believe I agree on anything with Reid. But I do. Burn them. In public.
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:33pmWill this be Comrade Obama’s civilian army uniform during his second term? What happened to the brown shirts MO loved so much?
The rumor is that China is running short on the brown dye needed to make the millions of uniforms ordered by MO. Therefore, it will have to be blue, if the uniforms are to be ready by January 2013. The reports are that MO cried.
Report Post »av1611
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:48pmlooks like some uniform a communist/marxist would wear.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:58pmLooks like thurston howell goes to commie land………..
Report Post »rawmilker
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:19pmThey look g a y as hell……
Report Post »jlcook
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 6:44pmWow Harry where did that come from, ehh, you’ll screw it up again by tomorrow.
Report Post »1956
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:04pmAgree,Angel. Totally agree!
Report Post »constitutionparty
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:19pmDoesn’t that look like the French flag on the beret? A blue white and red stripe is the french flag.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 8:47pmHarry is right! I threw up in my mouth,but I agree! And give France back their uniforms!
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 10:49pmOK, I just figured out why Harry Reid is fuming over this.
It has nothing to do with the clothes being made in China. Reid could care less.
This has everything to do with Romney having a past history with the Olympics and that’s it.
When Reid criticizes the Olympics he is criticizing Romney. Just wait, they will make the connection very soon.
Report Post »Reesie
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:15amThe uniforms look like what the Communist, “killing machine” murderer that the Left (of course that includes Hollywood) loves……. Che Guevara wore, especially the beret. Che…the one the Obama poster was modeled after, of course. The one that Jane Fonda (the traitor who sat on the Communist North Vietnamese anti-aircraft guns and conspired against our soldiers…the guns that shot our guys out of the sky…she bashed our Prisoners of War to the media and caused them to be beaten and tortured more)…the one that Jane Fonda admired so much she said she wished she had had sex with him, Che Guevera was known as the “killing machine” because he killed people to help Communist Dictator, Tyrant, Fidel Castro into power. Che is the one that Rachel Ray wore on her purse…the one that Cameron Diaz wore and a bunch of Hollywood “stars” wear and that Obama campaign HQ had his picture on the wall and Obama followers love Communist, anti-freedom, anti-art, child rapist, murderer Che Guevara. Why did anybody vote for Obama again??? Thanks a lot you idiots who did.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:34amThey look like uniforms of a communist country….Who designed them?
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 7:38amAfter Dingy Harry and rest of his bolshevik commarades killed USA manufacturing with high taxes, stupid regulations, etc,. Made us almost impossible to compete with rest of the world.
Report Post »Now he complains? What a bag of filth.
Zipit
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 8:14amSomeone call a techie! Our Olympic team has been infected with Mao-Wear!!!!!!
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 8:37amHey, dingy Harry- take some of millions you’ve lined your pockets with and BUY the uniforms you want, and stf up.
Report Post »1592
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:06pmEverything in made there. Who’s going to make them? Reid, Pelosi and Michelle?
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:00pmFor the price they are, they could be made right here in the good ol’ US of A.
Report Post »Lauren is making a fortune on these.
JohnHW
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:06pmReid, I agree with you on this. To bad you don’t agreed with me that you have done nothing for your pay since 2010 and should resign NOW. And Patty Murray standing beside you seems to concur, except for your suggestion that the contestents write USA on a piece of cloth and just wear that.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:54pmHarry Reid is faking outrage so that he and his fellow commies can come to the rescue. It is a blatant political tactic to get votes. It is all designed to portray the Democrats as patriots that love their country. We all know that is flat out CRAP. It was morons like Reid that approved those gastly costumes. They look like fricking communists standing there like that. It is sickening.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 5:03pm@ mil-dot
While he MIGHT be faking it, I think he should be given the benefit of the doubt here and just simply agree with him. Nothing hurts the conservative movement more than conservatives acting like progressives and tossing blame about with no proof.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on July 13, 2012 at 12:31amHe is right about the uniforms, wrong about everything else he’s done…Please Nevada vote this evil man out of office.
Report Post »krispy01
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:06pmHarry must have taken his meds today, he actually makes sense ! Butt ugly uniforms.
Report Post »sandtown
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:03pmIt’s the berets.
Report Post »Altair
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:03pmBerets? Those “uniforms” look like they were made for a Parisian clap doctor !
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:40pmRalph Lauren ….
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/07/11/ralph-lauren-ponies-up-with-u-s-olympic-uniforms/
btw; Let’s start with the Big Pony logo. This oversized version of the Polo Ralph Lauren logo is emblazoned on the left breasts of the just-revealed London Olympic uniforms for our U.S. athletes. A mite commercial, anyone?
Report Post »RightUnite
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:03pmOh-oh!! Reid is going to get a spanking!!
Report Post »h20sue
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:02pmOMG! I never thought I’d agree with the loonitic, but he’s dead on!
Report Post »Find out who authorized this and hang em from the highest tree. I have one in my yard that would do just dandy. 200′ Pin Oak with lots of strong branches. Shame on the decision maker. Shame, shame, shame. They need to serve prison time. Seriously. I don’t care who it is, Ralph Lauren or whomever. Let’s allow ABC to run a segment on this since they have been promoting “Made In America”. This is a tragedy!
JRook
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:16pmAnd check out the prices. So much for the customer benefiting from the cheap labor. Which of course is the real dirty little secret with many of the BRAND named products that have been outsourced to China. The cost goes down significantly more than the retail price. And management gets big bonuses for reducing costs and increasing profits while hurting the US economy. Rule of thumb for brand name products is take the retail price and divide it by 4. That’s the cost. Company makes 100% on costs, retailer makes 100% on the way through. Online prices are lower to account for shipping. Most of the great American companies have become nothing more than marketing and distribution companies.
Report Post »Saving_the_Republic.com
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:50pmMajority of us have all said the same, but this is one instance wen we agree with the little troll
Report Post »stloocardsfan
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:02pmWow…I think I just agreed with Harry Reid. Not only should the clothes themselves be burned, but also the design of them…ugly ugly ugly…no decent American should be wearing such crappy looking outfits. They look like something the athletes of a socialist, third world country would wear…never mind.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:38pmThey are just showing the world that we are just like all the other Socialists…and what better way then on the biggest sporting event stage! I bet the look was planned specifically for that purpose.
Report Post »jg2pto
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:02pmFinally, something Dingy and I can agree on.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:01pmWell, it is the Team USA sponsored and funded by China. This is just some of the way we are paying back our debt. The only clothes we make in the USA is black scarves for OWS.
Report Post »BER691
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:01pmmore then likely this will be the first and last time I’ll ever agree with the idiot…….
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:00pmReid is an idiot – OF COURSE it is shocking and disgusting that our athletes are wearing uniforms made in the sweatshops of our communist ENEMY, China, BUT – democrats’ pro-union, anti-business policies over many decades are to blame for the fact that the U.S. textiles industry and, more broadly, the entire manufacturing sector have been eviscerated and all the jobs have gone overseas. AND – Reid helped create/supports obama’s disastrous policies over the past 3 1/2 years which have destroyed millions of jobs. It is completely ridiculous that ANY democrat would whine about American jobs when they have worked so hard to purposely put Americans out of work, and enslave them on the government plantation – sounds like MORE FAKE OUTRAGE from Reid. What a POS.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:17pmGame. Set. Match. Good response!
Report Post »baho54
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:14pm@TRI-OX
Report Post »I agree with your assessment. I worked for a very popular jeans manufacturer (ones with a ‘W’ on the back pocket) and you can not buy a pair of these that are made here in the states. I also worked for serveral textile related companies over the years and every one has moved out of the US. That is due to our policies that favor the economics of manufacturing elsewhere.
BER691
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:00pmAdd your comments
Report Post »PeachyinGA
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:54pmOk, thanks for the invite. Did you see the prices on each piece of their uniforms???? I know why Team USA feels like a million bucks when they where their uniform …. cause that’s what it cost them!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:00pmHe wants to burn those evil Chinese uniforms, yet fully and enthusiastically supports the man slowly but surely selling America to the Chinese with every deficit spending year that goes by.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:43pmYes .. it is still old HYPOCRITE Dingy Harry. But for once he is on the right side .. of ONE thing. ;-)
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:59pmWhy not just give them to the needy Harry. Why be so destructive…
Report Post »Coded-Dude
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:57pmMeanwhile, all those american flags being waved around at the olympics were also probably made in china……
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:06pmOh now Reid is trying to act patriotic ? after he was a huge part of obamacare ? that POS is a Farking hypocrite, along with Pelousy, amd all those other socialist democrats
Report Post »AIDANMAN
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:57pmuniforms .. bought and paid for in China.. just like our polititions….
Report Post »Dde13
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:57pmAgreed, can’t believe I would EVER say I agree with Harry Ried.
Report Post »125.00 for a Tie?????????
Union or not the tag should say MADE IN THE USA…
huey6367
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:56pmAll of a sudden Reid is a patriot? I don’t get it. He’s not running for re-election. Oh, he is trying to keep at least a minority seat after the Dems lose the Senate. That could be it.
Harry, go home and watch the pomegranate trees bloom, would ya?
Report Post »ArcticDodge
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:55pmHarry Reid is correct about something !? shocking
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 3:09pmAsk the N.R.A. about Harry Reid, I think you might be surprised.
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:53pmSo how the Progressives will blame this on Romney since he had headed up the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:49pmI can’t believe I agree with Harry Reid on something. Apart from being made in China, these are the most unamerican looking uniforms I could imagine; the only thing missing is a “Che” logo.
Report Post »huey6367
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:57pmAnd that unwashed look and facial hair.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:49pmMust say this is probably the only time I have agreed with Reid on anything. It was wrong for the USA team not to wear clothes made in the USA.
Report Post »countryfirst
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 4:19pmThe only thing more shameful is how you are running the senate Harry.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:49pmOf course, Harry can’t believe his union promoters/handlers didn’t get the job……….
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 12, 2012 at 2:48pmGlenn, I KNOW that you could do better then this…. For the first time in my adult life, I agree with Harry Reid. Shame on us but thanks to obama we are owned by China.
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