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"Shame on you, Bernie," he added. "There can be no normal sporting relations with an abnormal regime that is killing its own people."</blockquote>
Authorities spent millions promoting what became a spectacle of shame. Nothing going forward will change things. Damage done won't easily be erased.
On race day Sunday, London Independent writer David Tremayne headlined, "Money talks as F1 show goes on regardless," saying:
<blockquote>"If you closed your eyes and put everything that has happened over the past week out of your mind, it was possible to imagine that it was business" as usual.
Why race after "almost universal condemnation from human rights activists." Money matters more than morality.
Independent writer James Corrigan called "Weekend at Bernie's....beyond bad. The show must go on," he said. It never should have been scheduled in the first place, nor in other nations ruled by despots.</blockquote>
Bernie takes "the outrageous to a new level." He needs police protection to get through it, get out, and go home. Henceforth, he'll be remembered as the maestro of misery, oblivious to street violence outside his cloistered paddock at the Bahraini International Circuit.
Asked by reporters to comment, he said "it's a lot of nonsense. You guys love it. What we really need is an earthquake or something like that now so you can write about that."
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