Danno wrote:
lhpoulin wrote:
What happened to Andreu happens daily in the United States. Go dig up some dirt on your boss. Make him feel like your holding it over his head and see what happens. No one in this world is "clean."
Are you really this stupid? It's not that Lance just went after the Andreus and others . . . it's that he did it
knowing they were telling the truth because the truth would hurt him. It's typical bully behavior magnified on an international level. Don't just deny their story, crush them and destroy them for daring to tell it. THAT is deplorable behavior. I get the reasoning for why he would do it, but that doesn't make Lance's actions right; nor does it make Betsy Andreu a "bitch" for standing up for the truth.
I would have a completely opposite opinion of Lance if the Andreus were blackmailing him with false information about his doping for their own benefit. Not only is there no evidence of this, however, the evidence that DOES exist proves the exact opposite.
lhpoulin wrote:
Furthermore, dragging a private conversation with a doc out into public on CNN is rather deplorable. She deserves no sympathy.
Explain, please. According to Betsy, Lance admitted to a doctor that he used PEDs. He then built his reputation and his empire on the false statement that he had
never used PEDs. He then destroyed the Andreu's lives when they dared come forward to speak the truth. How exactly is it that Betsy's conduct is the "deplorable" conduct here?
Edited to add: If Lance wanted to preserve a medical privilege of his admissions to the doctor, he should have made Betsy and Frankie leave the room. The presence of third parties negates the privilege. I see nothing wrong with Betsy telling the world what was said in that conversation. If the doctor fudged Lance's records and is worried now that he might have his career damaged by having done so, then he should be. Assuming it happened, it was not a smart move on his part.
lhpoulin wrote:
Finally, people like you are amusing. Amusing because you're so mad that even on Lance's worst day of chemo he was faster than you. People tend to hate most the things that remind them of their own flaws. Your posts reek of that analysis.
Again, this is stupid rationalization and typical Lance fanboy "reasoning." Nobody is pissed that Lance is "faster" than them. They're pissed that this guy built his career on lies, deceit, cheating, and ruthless tactics to destroy anyone who knew the truth and dared to speak it. Does it happen a lot? Sure, but not so often on an international stage, and not so often with someone who becomes a national hero.
Get over yourself. You're taking the Lance apologist position to new heights of stupidity.
Perhaps why Lance felt slighted. Here were his best friends - Frankie and Besty. Lance has cancer. He thinks he is going to die. He trusts Frankie and Besty so much that while being treated to prevent his death, he allows them in the room while Lance tells the doctor everything he needs to so he can get the right treatment for his cancer. Betsy - who Lance thinks he can trust and who thinks is his friend - takes that information, breaches any sense of trust between "best" friends as Betsy herself claims they were - and stabs Lance in the back (and only once Lance has lots of money) by disclosing it to the public. I think most people would be pissed off and go on the attack in that type of situation. Not to mention this happened almost 20 years ago - in 1996. And more importantly - which she fails to mention - Frankie was doping before and independent of Lance. She's trying to turn in 15 minutes of playing victim into 20.