Jenkins Speaks

[marinoni]

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?

That's what gets me, the astonishingly low journalistic standard. She's a columnist for what is historically a journalistic standard-bearer and yet this poorly written, grossly uninformed pr piece was approved by one if not several editors. People like Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee would be horrified by this junk.

 

[gregod]

That's what gets me, the astonishingly low journalistic standard. She's a columnist for what is historically a journalistic standard-bearer and yet this poorly written, grossly uninformed pr piece was approved by one if not several editors. People like Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee would be horrified by this junk.

i don't think this is anything new for the washeduppost. in spite of its reputation, it has been in the sh!tter for a while.

 

[gregod]

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.

i lold. cold, but funny.

 

[Tom375]

That's what gets me, the astonishingly low journalistic standard. She's a columnist for what is historically a journalistic standard-bearer and yet this poorly written, grossly uninformed pr piece was approved by one if not several editors. People like Katherine Graham and Ben Bradlee would be horrified by this junk.

Mindbending - especially when juxtaposed with Walsh's piece that opens by reminding us that it was the Washington Post that uncovered Watergate...

 

[sittingbison]

Keyser Soze!

It never happened.

YES!! The Usual Suspects!!

I'm telling you this guy is protected from up on high by the Prince of Darkness.

What the cops never figured out, and what I know now, was that these men would never break, never lie down, never bend over for anybody. Anybody.

You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, ****. He's gone.

 

[thehog]

YES!! The Usual Suspects!!

Kobayashi!

 

[silverrocket]

It was bad enough that she kept referencing her own books written with LA, but when she actually quoted herself with self-supposed gravitas, it was all too much for me.

 

[howsteepisit]

LA power over Jenkins reminds me of Charles Manson and his followers back in the '60s in Los Angeles. The disciples just cannot see any sense of reality. That piece by Walsh was powerful and very well done.

 

[Page Mill Masochist]

Washington Post Sports editor is Matt Vita.

vitam@washpost.com

 

[Maxiton]

I&#8217]

If you read between the lines here, the implication is that she wasn't hoodwinked; she knew all along. My guess is that she told Lance in the beginning how she felt about doping - that it was no one's business but his, in a sport, moreover that required it for success. Hearing this, he leveled with her, and she subsequently went on to help him build the myth. Did she do it for the money and notoriety, or did she do it in service to what she thought was a greater good? Did she do it because she loves him? Or did she do it simply because it is her nature?

"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon . . .

"We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

-- John Swinton, Journalist NYC 1880

Kimmage is an exception, unemployed.

 

[Siriuscat]

Sally had to write the article like that...how else could she bid for the future Mea Culpa book .... It's All About The Drugs

 

[Benotti69]

Too late for mea culpa.

Jenkins reputation is forever tarnished with normal people who understand the true sociopath that Armstrong is.

Being looked up to 'people' who still believe the myth, well even wonderboy hates them.

 

[Bag_O_Wallet]

Like other teammates and "friends", it looks like Jenkins was a very good responder to the cheat-or-be-cheated indoctrination process - and I suspect that's why she got the job. If she didn't write it, someone else would have. So, she might as well win, right?

 

[Siriuscat]

Too late for mea culpa.

Jenkins reputation is forever tarnished with normal people who understand the true sociopath that Armstrong is.

Being looked up to 'people' who still believe the myth, well even wonderboy hates them.

For the bulk of cycling fans yeah it's too late, but for the screaming masses of three week fans that appeared during his time the myth is still there. She's only interested in her next book!

 

[The_Z_man]

Sally wants to be on his good side so when he is eventually vindicated, she'll get to write book #3.

<sarcasm off>

How a reputable organization like the Washington Post can keep her on now is beyond me. She's saying that she was lied too, just went along with it, and that was all OK. What is even worse is reading that piece she wrote about Tiger Woods. What Tiger did had nothing to do with the sport of golf whatsoever. Cheating on your wife is horrible but doping in cycling isn't cheating at all. Are you kidding me?

Her whole article was written using all of the Liestrong Approved Talking Points. I don't think she missed one.

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

Sally wants to be on his good side so when he is eventually vindicated, she'll get to write book #3.

<sarcasm off>

How a reputable organization like the Washington Post can keep her on now is beyond me. She's saying that she was lied too, just went along with it, and that was all OK. What is even worse is reading that piece she wrote about Tiger Woods. What Tiger did had nothing to do with the sport of golf whatsoever. Cheating on your wife is horrible but doping in cycling isn't cheating at all. Are you kidding me?

Her whole article was written using all of the Liestrong Approved Talking Points. I don't think she missed one.

No, she did not miss one. Perfectly in lockstep with the SOP's established by Fabiani.
This will not be lost, one would hope, on her WP bosses.

 

[thehog]

The Sally Jenkins Venn diagram:

http://www.cycleboredom.com/the-official-sally-jenkins-venn-diagram/

 

[epluribusnev]

Thanks thehog & Race Radio for the link & story.

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

The Sally Jenkins Venn diagram:

http://www.cycleboredom.com/the-official-sally-jenkins-venn-diagram/

The circles are far too close.......

 

[Race Radio]

Jaimie Fuller on Sally

http://watercooler.skins.net/blog/2012/12/18/sally-jenkins-has-lost-the-plot/

 

[Benotti69]

http://dcist.com/2012/12/sally_jenkins_finally_writes_about.php

taken from raceradio's twitter.

It does seem that Jenkins is no longer a journalist. Fangirl is gonna be a strange byline but fitting.

 

[The_Z_man]

One other thing.

From her article:
And I’m confused as to why using cortisone as an anti-inflammatory in a 2,000-mile race is cheating....

Uh, because it's in the rules. If you break the rules, regardless of what you think of them, it's cheating.

 

[Aleajactaest]

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

He doesn't deserve to get off the hook. TW is a disgusting human being.

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

He doesn't deserve to get off the hook. TW is a disgusting human being.

Yes, he was.

So a sports writer decides to write about his private failings and condemn him. Yet he played his sport by the rules.

The same writer defends a sports figure who systematically cheated and broke the rules. Who also has private and moral failings that are in the public domain.

She has been outed yet again for who she truly serves.

Sally is part of the gang. The article actually provides some comic relief to this, in that if you really wondered how pathetic an apologist could become, well.....this was pretty pathetic.

 

[Aleajactaest]

Yes, he was.

So a sports writer decides to write about his private failings and condemn him. Yet he played his sport by the rules.

The same writer defends a sports figure who systematically cheated and broke the rules. Who also has private and moral failings that are in the public domain.

She has been outed yet again for who she truly serves.

Sally is part of the gang. The article actually provides some comic relief to this, in that if you really wondered how pathetic an apologist could become, well.....this was pretty pathetic.

She is no worse than the gang here. This place is pretty pathetic as well.