thehog said:
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Its strange that some people say that Landis is only doing this because he’s hit rock bottom and there’s nothing left – no options. Of course that’s why he’s doing it. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s the realisation that there is no other option to him now – he’s setting himself free before he moves on...
+1.
By deduction, the people who think he's lying now... I mean, did they think he was telling the truth before about
not doping? About the '06 Tour positive being a false positive?
Look, if you think he's lying now, then you
must believe he was telling the truth before. And the vise versa is also be true. I fall in the vise versa camp because I
never believed his positive for testosterone at the '06 Tour to be a false positive.
I know what you're thinking. It's more complex than that.
But isn't.
His motivation for lying about the '06 TdF positive is so obvious it doesn't need explanation. The motivation behind his current statements, if they are fabrications, don't seem to have an explanation. In other words, why would he lie now? Just for the sake of lying? Because he enjoys being sued? Because he wants the championship belt for being the world's biggest liar? Because he's mentally ill?
The person in the interview I just read seemed sane to me. Repentant.
Hey, if you believed him the first time but don't believe him now, okay. That makes sense to me because you must have believed Armstrong was clean
and Landis was clean. So in the present tense, that makes for a very simple argument: Armstrong is clean and Landis is a liar.
Now, you could say that you believed him
then, but that you also believe him
now because you've had a change of heart. That makes sense. But you can't say you didn't believe him then and you don't believe him now. That doesn't make sense. His motivation for lying
then is obvious. His motivation for lying
now is, what? A book deal? Based on lies? Money for interviews? So he can be sued? He's got it in for the people he's lying about?
One could argue that he's mentally ill. And if he is, then we all just throw up our hands.
His motivation for telling the truth
now seems simple: he can't live with the lie.
Listen, what he's saying
now isn't going to hang around like six positives and slowly foment into opinion. We're going to find out if what he is saying
now is fact. Federal investigations normally reach resolute conclusions. I would venture to guess that these big publications wouldn't print Landis' story if the facts weren't pretty well vetted.