Jenkins Speaks

[Bandoblue]

The column we've been waiting for... Yet in a weird way, like a funhouse mirror of the USADA report, no matter how much I expected it, it still exceeds all my expectactions of mendacity....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...02bcce-460e-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

 

[sniper]

You called it right, Bandoblue. Astonishing display of ignorance and disrespect towards those whose life Lance tried to make miserable.

"Maybe I'm not angry at Lance" because I was able to make some extra bucks off his back by jumping on his bandwagon when the winds were still favorable.

"Maybe I'm not angry at Lance" because he's already made me look like an utter idiot and I would look even more foolish and ignorant if I'd start dissing him now.

 

[gregod]

The column we've been waiting for... Yet in a weird way, like a funhouse mirror of the USADA report, no matter how much I expected it, it still exceeds all my expectactions of mendacity....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...02bcce-460e-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

thanks for the link. i don't think i can bring myself to read it. i puked a little just reading the headline. leave to the washeduppost to print such (what i assume will be) drivel.

why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

 

[martinvickers]

The column we've been waiting for... Yet in a weird way, like a funhouse mirror of the USADA report, no matter how much I expected it, it still exceeds all my expectactions of mendacity....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/sport...02bcce-460e-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html

If ever an article disqualified it's author from any future in sport, this is it. She clearly doesn't give a damn about, or even understand, sport, or sports people, are frankly even honest journalism. No place near sport. No place in her profession.

 

[frenchfry]

It really is a nauseating composition.

I think what bothers me most is what she says about doping.

I’ve long believed that what athletes put in their bodies should be a matter of personal conscience, not police actions — when we demand unhealthy, even death-defying extremes of them for our entertainment, it seems the height of hypocrisy to then dictate what’s good for them.

for two decades now I’ve had serious questions about the wisdom and fairness of the “anti-doping” effort, which consists of criminalizing and demonizing athletes for what boils down to using medications without a prescription...

Hey Sally, what about those who have DIED from PED use. Don't we have some sort of moral obligation to doing what is right to avoid that young athletes DIE. Oh right, I forgot that you have no morals and you are happy like that.

I think it’s apparent that all of the people associated with him are responsible for themselves and their choices, just as I was.

Hey Sally, are you so blind that you can't see how your loved one has worked to systematically destroy all detractors? And I don't use the word destroy lightly.

As for her babbling about "due process", "they were all doing it" etc. etc., she is just once again demonstrating her total lack of journalistic ability.

As others have stated, I was expecting something along these lines, but she has really surpassed herself. Maybe the piece was co-written by Fabiani?

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

It really is a nauseating composition.

I think what bothers me most is what she says about doping.



Hey Sally, what about those who have DIED from PED use. Don't we have some sort of moral obligation to doing what is right to avoid that young athletes DIE. Oh right, I forgot that you have no morals and you are happy like that.

I think it’s apparent that all of the people associated with him are responsible for themselves and their choices, just as I was.

Hey Sally, are you so blind that you can't see how your loved one has worked to systematically destroy all detractors? And I don't use the word destroy lightly.

As for her babbling about "due process", "they were all doing it" etc. etc., she is just once again demonstrating her total lack of journalistic ability.

As others have stated, I was expecting something along these lines, but she has really surpassed herself. Maybe the piece was co-written by Fabiani?

This was her only option. And she took 2 months to cough it up, possibly on the insistence of her editor.
She may be so ****sed, that she writes this to save face.

Could you imagine the alternative:

I, Sally Jenkins, have been manipulated, lied to, used, usurped, and played like a harmonica for years.. Yes, I made a few bucks in the process. But I always believed Lance was clean because he said so.

He lied. And I was the purveyor of his falsehood, at the highest level. And I took his defense, crapping all over anyone who suggested the opposite might be true.

Yes, I Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post, am a patsy along the likes of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Am I mad at Lance? I am fooking livid at Lance. But I will write entirely the opposite, so my absolute humiliation will not be visible to the general public.

Yes, I Sally Jenkins, have been and will continue to be, an idiot.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Is the timing relevant? Horner with positive LA review. Jenkins (but essentially the Washington Post) with positive LA spin. Ferrari with negative LA doping.

Court documents unsealed but then successfully resealed.

Is it just all random noise, or is something cooking?

 

[thehog]

If only she let Tiger off the hook: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...3.html?hpid=news-col-blog&sid=ST2009113003575

 

[frenchfry]

If only she let Tiger off the hook: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...3.html?hpid=news-col-blog&sid=ST2009113003575

To quote Sally "it seems the height of hypocrisy"

Maybe the difference is that Tiger said he wouldn't sleep with prostitutes anymore, whereas with the one balled wonder she still has a chance.

 

[del1962]

What annoys me most about the article is this line

And while we’re on that subject, there is no question in my mind he was the hardest-working cyclist in the world, and for the life of me, I can’t find the competitive injustice in his seven Tour de France victories.

the whole thing about Armstrong is he was on the best program, not that he worked any harder.

 

[I Watch Cycling In July]

Is the timing relevant? Horner with positive LA review. Jenkins (but essentially the Washington Post) with positive LA spin. Ferrari with negative LA doping.

Court documents unsealed but then successfully resealed.

Is it just all random noise, or is something cooking?

Could be something cooking. Strange silence from Padua....whole bunch of **** shooting out of people in every direction.....

I missed the resealed docs story, what happened?

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

Could be something cooking. Strange silence from Padua....whole bunch of **** shooting out of people in every direction.....

I missed the resealed docs story, what happened?

Unsealed, then resealed. Now, apparently unsealed again.

Very likely that the article, and the unsealing, are coordinated.

 

[Scott SoCal]

Sally doesn't just love LA, she's in love with him.

It's as plain as day.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

You called it right, Bandoblue. Astonishing display of ignorance and disrespect towards those whose life Lance tried to make miserable.

"Maybe I'm not angry at Lance" because I was able to make some extra bucks off his back by jumping on his bandwagon when the winds were still favorable.

"Maybe I'm not angry at Lance" because he's already made me look like an utter idiot and I would look even more foolish and ignorant if I'd start dissing him now.

I read the Fish Hacks article but was unable to find those quotes in the story.

Funny that this is going to ruffle the clinic ("small echo chamber"). It is a Fish Hack that happens to be in love with Lance.
The clinic should have known that the Fish Hack would eventually write something like this.

 

[Dear Wiggo]

Nope. NO idea what a fish hack is. Definition?

 

[noddy69]

Wonder how the post feel about their journalists getting shed loads o money to write biased articles with F all fact in them. I suppose it mirrors the real world,we have people with integrity and then those with no morals whatsoever.Herself and Lance are a good fit.

 

[Bandoblue]

Her Palmares as as Fake as His

Here is what I wrote in the comments on the Post. This actually really bothers me--she has cheated at her craft a much as he has at his, and is just as brazen.

"So now we know--Ms. Jenkins is Lance Armstrong's true partner in character.

Let me share with you some names: Gideon Haigh. Nick Tosches. Clive Gilson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes. Andrew Jennings.

These are the fellow writers Sally Jenkins beat out for the 2000 William Hill Sports Book of The Year with "Its Not About the Bike.". These are the people whose honest books could not keep up the pace against the lie-fueled enhanced performance of Jenkins' narrative. These are the people whose careers might have received the boost that Sally got instead. Yet today, with the central story of her book in smoking ruins, she tells us, chin up, that she "stands by nearly every paragraph."

Just as Lance Armstrong stood on the podium while the spit dried on the face of Simeoni, so Jenkins stands on the podium to this day, clinging to her palmares won on lies, leaving the spit to dry on the faces of her competitors for the biggest prize in her profession--and on our faces as readers."

 

[johnsiviour]

To quote Sally "it seems the height of hypocrisy"

Maybe the difference is that Tiger said he wouldn't sleep with prostitutes anymore, whereas with the one balled wonder she still has a chance.

Chapeau....Very incisive and love the wry humour.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

Sally doesn't just love LA, she's in love with him.

It's as plain as day.

Yeah I just said the same thing in my post above.

It is easy to read into that article that she wants to be part of the Lance group of "making a list, I am checking it twice. Going to nail my ex-teammates wife" except she is not part of the official "WAG's" "whereabouts database"

Maybe just for Sally J. they could add a "HO""whereabouts database" (HO = Hangers On).

 

[johnsiviour]

If only she let Tiger off the hook: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...3.html?hpid=news-col-blog&sid=ST2009113003575

Thanks Hog Beautiful juxtoposition. Providing far more insight into SJ's and LA's situation than SJ's meandering repetitious blather.

 

[thehog]

Is the timing relevant? Horner with positive LA review. Jenkins (but essentially the Washington Post) with positive LA spin. Ferrari with negative LA doping.

Court documents unsealed but then successfully resealed.

Is it just all random noise, or is something cooking?

Keyser Soze!

It never happened.

 

[JimmyFingers]

you're all just a bunch of chimps throwing poo at the wall.

My favourite line in the comments. I resemble that remark.

Perhaps the first onslaught of a pro-Lance PR spin machine slowly gearing up? There's plenty of the 'he doped but so was everyone else so he had to' and the 'he would have still won had he and everyone else been clean' brigade out there. Conveniently ignoring the fact that he was one of the main protagonists

 

[BroDeal]

Sally doesn't just love LA, she's in love with him.

It's as plain as day.

Jeebus! Don't be so naive.

Jenkins was not suckered by Armstrong. She is not in love with him. She knowingly promoted the fraud and milked it for everything she could. Armstrong relied on amoral scum like Jenkins and Liggett to lie for him. They knew exactly what they were doing.

 

[Benotti69]

Jeebus! Don't be so naive.

Jenkins was not suckered by Armstrong. She is not in love with him. She knowingly promoted the fraud and milked it for everything she could. Armstrong relied on amoral scum like Jenkins and Liggett to lie for him. They knew exactly what they were doing.

This


10 chara..........

 

[Race Radio]

If only she let Tiger off the hook: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...3.html?hpid=news-col-blog&sid=ST2009113003575

Surprising she is so rough on Tiger. Sally certainly does not have a problem with infidelity.....or stealing other people's husbands