Official Lance Armstrong Thread: Part 3 (Post-Confession)

[thehog]

Wonder when that will be flogged off to pay the bills......

It's about $200 a bottle for the Harlen Estate. He has a whole box of it.

I think the aim would be to work himself through the 1000 bottles he has in his cellar. By that time he'll be in so much debt but too drunk to care.

Awesome strategy. If you're going to go down, go down drinking.

 

[buckle]

if you enjoyed the one from last night you will absolutelly love the alex gibney doc/film , lots of stuff you would not have seen before . i have watched it about 4 times lol , there is something about LAs story i find captivating .

The problem with the Gibney documentary is that it features Lance.

 

[Herbstrong]

Travis Tygart, the head of the USADA and the man most directly responsible for bringing him down, openly despised Armstrong for his lack of faith. "If I personally was on the brink of death and went through a terrible situation and came out of that as an atheist," he sniffed to one reporter, "I'd have no moral constraints."

this odd statement was in Cycles of Lies

 

[buckle]

this odd statement was in Cycles of Lies

Makes more sense than Gibney's confused and confusing documentary. If Gibney represents some new morality then 'God' help us. What is 2009 all about?

 

[mewmewmew13]

Good portrait.

I am sure the chief intern at Andreu Strategies will be along to tell us how outraged we should be over sh!t that happened fifteen and twenty years ago. Butcher those scapegoats, baby.

I usually am able to read an entire article to gain perspective.
This one killed me with its length. The entire narrative reads like some fan that is so in awe of Wonderboy that everything Lance does is held in reverence.

Do I give a rat's that poor Anna and Lance had to go to a livestrong function "gala" whatever and feel "physically ill" standing there...???
NO
if this is but a tiny taste of the misery that her idiot husband brought to untold numbers of folks bring it on! Learn to deal with it woman!

Of course the "too much good for too many people" card is played in spades..
I can't buy it. I guess we need to start thinking in our courtrooms when we are in juries..."well, this person did break the law ..but you need to remember that it is impossible to forget that there were some good things there as well. Let's not convict this criminal." Kumbaya

As long as the docudramas and Lance's personal drama about his personal sh!!t is around and in my face I will welcome anyone that was involved to give their perspectives and anecdotes. ..the "Andreu intern" included.

 

[ChewbaccaD]

Good portrait.

I am sure the chief intern at Andreu Strategies will be along to tell us how outraged we should be over sh!t that happened fifteen and twenty years ago. Butcher those scapegoats, baby.

Another instance of SSDD...can we get a third?

 

[Scott SoCal]

Purgatory has a killer wine cellar

I don't see much difference with this photo and the one LA tweeted admiring his seven mellow johnnys while kicking it on his sofa.

The deck chairs on the Titanic are getting re-arranged. That is all that is going on here.

 

[Benotti69]

I don't see much difference with this photo and the one LA tweeted admiring his seven mellow johnnys while kicking it on his sofa.

The deck chairs on the Titanic are getting re-arranged. That is all that is going on here.

Nice.


10chara.....

 

[Merckx index]

this odd statement was in Cycles of Lies

I didn't think I would have to point out that the problem with this statement isn't that Tygart didn't make it--he did--but that it doesn't comprise an "ugly motive". TT made it in response to LA's widely repeated myth that no one who nearly died from cancer would dope. Tygart was simply pointing out that if you survived cancer, you might very well adopt the view that life is precious, and you better get whatever you can however you can. To imply that that is an ugly motive, comparable to Floyd's anger for not being offered a job, is just ludicrous. It isn't a motive at all. Tygart didn't go after LA because he was motivated by his hate for an atheist. He went after him because it was his job.

 

[Herbstrong]

I didn't think I would have to point out that the problem with this statement isn't that Tygart didn't make it--he did--but that it doesn't comprise an "ugly motive". TT made it in response to LA's widely repeated myth that no one who nearly died from cancer would dope. Tygart was simply pointing out that if you survived cancer, you might very well adopt the view that life is precious, and you better get whatever you can however you can. To imply that that is an ugly motive, comparable to Floyd's anger for not being offered a job, is just ludicrous. It isn't a motive at all. Tygart didn't go after LA because he was motivated by his hate for an atheist. He went after him because it was his job.

I don't think his hate for atheists was the motivation behind the takedown. Just an odd quote and somewhat insulting to atheists. Nevertheless, it's off the topic. Didn't mean to have veered off course.

 

[StyrbjornSterki]

http://www.esquire.com/features/lance-armstrong-interview-0814?spr_id=1456_69794940&src=spr_TWITTER

Paid for by the Committee to Acquit Lance Armstrong
While Simultaneously Convincing the Gullible and Sycophantic
He's Not Really a Criminal
or an Anal Sphincter of Galactic Proportions

Timothy Herman, Esq., Prop.

 

[Bosco10]

http://www.esquire.com/features/lance-armstrong-interview-0814?spr_id=1456_69794940&src=spr_TWITTER

What a honey dew melon of an article. You'd almost think that Lance is a modern day martyr, nobly suffering for the greater good of mortals. And then there's Anna Hansen, complaining it was deliberate and malicious to release the reasoned decision just 10 whole days before Livestrong's Gala: "We were going to have to go stand in front of all of these thousands of people. You're almost, like, physically ill." Oh the humanity!

Finally, if you venture into the Comments section you will find a slew of Armstrong Apologists having a feel-good-field-day. A real whine & cheese party.

 

[jam pants]

http://www.esquire.com/features/lance-armstrong-interview-0814?spr_id=1456_69794940&src=spr_TWITTER

Man, just when I was getting ready for bed. Now I'm physically ill.

 

[Oldman]

Paid for by the Committee to Acquit Lance Armstrong
While Simultaneously Convincing the Gullible and Sycophantic
He's Not Really a Criminal
or an Anal Sphincter of Galactic Proportions

Timothy Herman, Esq., Prop.

Esquire is, as several folks pointed out; an ad-based magazine. So many advertisements that they don't bother placing disclaimers on them. Upside for Armstrong; if he provided the artwork and the copy it probably didn't cost him much.

 

[frenchfry]

Paid for by the Committee to Acquit Lance Armstrong
While Simultaneously Convincing the Gullible and Sycophantic
He's Not Really a Criminal
or an Anal Sphincter of Galactic Proportions

Timothy Herman, Esq., Prop.

Is John H. Richardson Bill Stapleton's nom de plume?

Interesting that I am not the only one who couldn't stomach getting to the end of this vomit-inducing crap.

 

[86TDFWinner]

Man, just when I was getting ready for bed. Now I'm physically ill.

This should make you want to take a trip to the hospital then(No, you can't make this stuff up):


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-tur...-back-lance-armstrong-even-now-204641190.html

Said "circumstances" include his artwork, his mixed drinks ("Lanceritas" are a specialty), and his children, all around him, all at once. But he can't compete in any kind of sport — he got kicked out of a local swim meet because someone protested his presence — and the strain of that loss is visible.

LOL

 

[Tinman]

A wild left misses over the top!

Don't start with the albino deer meat, doc.

I'm all for tearing Armstrong down, but let's not do the same to science, OK?

I only take issue with 'most likely'. There has been a lot of discussion of whether or not he caused his own cancer via doping and it will most likely always remain speculation. Saying most likely is unfair, imo. The rest is not. And from what I recall there is a reasonable amount of science to support the argument. Sorry, wish I had all of the relevant links for you at my fingertips but they are there if you want to dig.

In case you have doubt about what "most likely caused", or certainly exacerbated his cancer, read up on what happened to the Eddy B junior cohort of the late 80's that were exposed to some serious drug cocktails. Several are no longer here to tell the tale. The links are somewhere deep in these threads.

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. Routine TUE abuse of prednisone out of competition is highly likely to increase cancer incidence.

 

[ggusta]

Purgatory has a killer wine cellar

1st off, if he thinks he is in purgatory, he's just whistling past the graveyard. The fun has just begun.

Caption game anyone?

 

[Fortyninefourteen]

1st off, if he thinks he is in purgatory, he's just whistling past the graveyard. The fun has just begun.

Caption game anyone?

The wine is not mine to sell, but can I interest you in this Ikea footstool, covered in finely sheared Alpaca?

 

[ChewbaccaD]

http://www.esquire.com/features/lance-armstrong-interview-0814?spr_id=1456_69794940&src=spr_TWITTER

This should make you want to take a trip to the hospital then(No, you can't make this stuff up):


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-tur...-back-lance-armstrong-even-now-204641190.html

LOL

MarkvW is right about one thing, the rehabilitation of the Armstrong image is in full effect...

 

[Tinman]

MarkvW is right about one thing, the rehabilitation of the Armstrong image is in full effect...

Which is why it is so important to point out the cancer lie. It's always been - and still is - a cynical play to the vulnerable that hope and want/need to believe.

And it's now merely a LiveStrong survival requirement, not at all about cancer patients, if it ever was. The game continues.

 

[ggusta]

MarkvW is right about one thing, the rehabilitation of the Armstrong image is in full effect...

Best thing he can do for himself is stfu, which he is congenitally incapable of (THANK GOD). If this dreck (Esquire) is his best effort at controlling, or at best managing the narrative, he is losing badly except fo his dwindling cadre of chumps wannabe's and hanger's on (HO's).

Love that sour puss. The smug has gone out of it and just looks bitter.

 

[Scott SoCal]

Which is why it is so important to point out the cancer lie. It's always been - and still is - a cynical play to the vulnerable that hope and want/need to believe.

And it's now merely a LiveStrong survival requirement, not at all about cancer patients, if it ever was. The game continues.

Yep. I liked this part;

What about the 16 years Lance Armstrong spent building a global cancer advocacy? Did it matter? Does it still? Does it matter that Livestrong, the foundation that kicked him out, now wants him back?

Which, I guess is true;

"If he gets up in the morning and decides that being a leader in the cancer community is what he wants to spend his life doing," says Doug Uhlman, president of Livestrong, "then the cancer community and the Livestrong Foundation would welcome him back."

What a cesspool.

 

[thehog]

Yep. I liked this part;



Which, I guess is true;



What a cesspool.

The money is drying up so they want him back to build a redemption story, I guess.

A lot of the good employees on low salaries have gone. The ones on high salaries have stayed to milk it to the brink.

Sad.

 

[jam pants]

This should make you want to take a trip to the hospital then(No, you can't make this stuff up):


http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/the-tur...-back-lance-armstrong-even-now-204641190.html




LOL

That was the plan all along, wasn't it? Outcast to hero once again! Oh, the frailty of the human condition. Let's all celebrate!