Leave it to the dutiful scribes at NBC News to parrot the communist Chinese government’s preferred talking points.

When Uyghur skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang helped light the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie gushed that the “provocative” decision was an “in-your-face response to those Western nations, including the U.S., who have called this Chinese treatment of that group genocide.”