NBC Screw-up on Gabby Douglas

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Just after Gabby Douglas won the gold medal in women's gymnastics for the individual all-around, announcer Bob Costa indicated that perhaps she would now be an inspiration to many young African-American girls. NBC then cut to a commercial that featured a monkey performing gymnastics. The commercial was for an upcoming sitcom on the network.

In fact, the poorly-timed commercial followed a rather insipid time-filling piece by Bob Costas.

***Separately, news.yahoo on "Bodies in Motion"

"Bodies In Motion" was an online video produced by NBC in which women competing in various Olympic sports were featured in softcore, fetishist slow-motion highlights, while porn-tastic jazz music played on the soundtrack.

It looked like something a horny teenager with a DVR would have spliced together for YouTube; instead, it was the official rights holder of the Olympics in the U.S. that produced it.