franic said:
Yea, but if someone tell me I'm a liar I don't call her publicly a "crazy ***" nor try to sue for a multimillion dollar case his newspaper nor say she was involved in an improper sexual affair nor try to sabotage his cycling career etc...Should I keep going?
I like the fact that Lance admitted what he did, but it is not enough to convince me he's a good guy after what he did in the Peloton and outside of it.
you raise some interesting points, unintentionally.
lets run with what you typed, which is accurate.
But lets shine the light on the public, the fans, and the credulity of the fan. Should they get a pass. If Lance calls Betsy a crazy b!tch, and we then look at Betsy thru the jaundiced lens, does this say more about us. Why did the public not interpret Lance thru this lens instead? Was the fan, were the fans using him as some vicarious ubermensch and they may project upon them their unlived fantasy and sporting glories. Was Lance rubbing it in the face of Bassons and Simeoni a confirmation of the American exceptionalism, on both the personal micro and nation scale.
btw, Betsy is a crazy b!tch, but you can judge for yourself!
And suspension of d!sbelief is powerful when the emotional overrides the rational and logical. The empire crew have some struggle with this at the moment. They need to go back, and do their A levels at Gordonstoun, and do their formal logic in Balliol college.