Can you imagine if Richard Nixon tearfully plead his case on Oprah’s couch, answering the hard questions from a “soft” voice, and asking for the country’s forgiveness before resigning from office? That’s about where we are these days: Screw up, and there are a few options to rehabilitate your reputation: Go to rehab. Make fun of yourself on Saturday Night Live, or you can bawl your eyes out on Oprah and allow her to make your case for you. It works more often than it should.
Lance Armstrong is taking the Oprah route. After years and years and YEARS of denying doping allegations, an overwhelming irrefutable evidence was mounted against Lance Armstrong. He was stripped of his titles. He was banned from cycling for life. And yet: He still continued to deny. But in a 90-minute episode of Oprah set to air on Thursday, Lance Armstrong will come clean and ask for absolution. There’s no way he should be given it, not after he insisted his denials LONG after everyone else gave up believing him.
Among the casualties in his wake of denial was the London Times, the newspaper that Lance Armstrong sued and extracted $1.5 million out of nearly 15 years ago, using England’s harsh libel laws against the newspaper. David Walsh, the sports journalist largely responsible for the Times initial accusations, has now offered up 10 questions he’d like Oprah to ask Lance Armstrong. He’s clearly very pissed off at Lance Armstrong, and who can blame him? He wasn’t just lying to the bicycling community and it’s fans: He was lying to the cancer community, and that is unacceptable. His lies also made him a very wealthy man.
Here are the 10 questions that the Times would like Oprah to ask.
Hopefully, instead of forgiving Armstrong, the American public will give him what he deserves: A one-way trip to VH1 celebreality programming and eventual obscurity. Remember when he tweeted this image, after he’d has his titles stripped away, as if to say: “I don’t care what anyone says. I won them. You can see them on my wall.”
That’s the opposite of class, jackass.
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Your preachy diatribe is right, those cancer patients in their ivory towers should give all that money back. Who do they think they are?
Let’s start ignoring him with this being the last post.
The only way this interview will be worth anything is if Armstrong answers some of those questions. As it stands now, I suspect this guy’s narcissism will lead him to do the bare minimum and avoid answering for the people he tried to destroy.
Well, I think the next step should be to retroactively award his wins to the next person. Let’s see…
*pulls out reading glasses*
Oh, no, that dude was caught doping too…and that one…and that one. Okay, maybe in third pl…oh nope…him too…hmmmm.
*Throws list into a fire.*
Er, I think we may have to give the whole “Cycling Sport” a mulligan for the last 20 years…
I sure am glad the federal government spent all that taxpayer money hounding a guy who cheated at sports and raised tens of millions of dollars for cancer patients. That’s WAY more important than prosecuting murders, rapists, and corrupt politicians.
Seriously, I hope Lance admits to everything and tells all his self-righteous critics to kiss his sweet Texas ass.
Seriously Dustin…fuck you.
Which branch of the government was in charge and how much did they spend?
Federal prosecutors under the jurisdiction of the FDA spent two years on charges that were eventually dropped. The USADA (which is a non-profit, quasi-legal group partially funded mostly by the Office of National Drug Control Policy) was the agency that brought about the latest charges.
I can’t find the exact figures anywhere, but it has to be in at least the tens of millions of dollars.
All this for a guy that had been retired for years from a sport where virtually everyone was doping. That is the exact definition of selective prosecution.
This is just like the ending to the watchmen
If only there were other methods of raising money for cancer research besides this false god. Thank Lance Armstrong for his sacrifice of being the face (sack) for cancer awareness. It was all obviously a selfless act. Now what are we supposed to do? Dammit! There is just no way to donate the money to stem cell research, American Cancer Society, Ronald McDonald House ….
If you’ve raised a half a billion for cancer charities, then you can judge. Until then, you’re just a twerp in a glass house throwing stones.
The USADA’s job is catching cheaters. They uncovered the largest organized doping ring in the history of sport. Which part of your tax dollars were misspent? Also, Ferrari and Brunyeel are still active in the sport today, cheating kick-ass young american stars like Taylor Phinney and TJ Van Garderen.
Seriously RomandCandele, fuck YOU
It’s a question of priorities and basic decency. It is sickening that the government is spending millions on prosecuting a victimless non-crime when we have so many more serious issues to face.
This is one of those arguments you wont win. He did what he did to win and he did it amazingly well. what business does the Govt even have to be involved in sports affairs. Fuck the USADA fuck wasting our taxpayer dollars fuck people who love bringing people down because they will never be anything and fuck self righteous cocksuckers who have never done anything except write about how they are better people and everyone else is beneath them and their morals. Get over yourself dustin you are a nobody fucking blogger on a corporate blog shilling shitty movies and axe body spray , leave the high and mighty attitude with the pop fucking ads and Bob Loblaw was a shitty character on a great show. Scott Baio mother fucker.
Love you too, walt. Maybe it’s because I ride a bike competitively and raised $10,000 for livestrong before I realized it was all based on a lie. Like a woman scorned and ex-smokers, we’re the worst.
And how much love of government does a guy have who defrauds the postal service, intimidates federal witnesses and lies under oath?
This post is right where it should be. Welcome to TV Land, nothing’s true until Oprah asks the questions, framed by questions from a real journalist.
Also, jesus lay off dustin.
armstong didnt lie about raising millions of fucking dollars for cancer research. so who gives a shit if he cheated a fucking bicyle race? god damn you are the worst rowles. the absolute fucking pits.
I owe you a hug
He didn’t just cheat at bicycle raise, he acted like a sanctimoniuos ass who collected 1.5 million via FRAUD, for suing and then COLLECTING on a libel judgment when he knew there was no libel committed, meanwhile tarnishing the name of a journalist. He doubled up on being an asshole by making defamatory statements against other riders and government officials, claiming there was some vendetta or conspiracy against him.
And thats just the beginning of his fucknuttery, but Rowles is the worst? You can stop polishing Armstrong’s ball now and get some perspective.
Phillip Rivers Cuomo is the Dustin Rowles of this comment section.
Actually he did. LAF funded ZERO dollars of research. The money went to “awareness” and a jet for Lance.
Stitch, stop being the Stitch of this comment thread.
This post is about Armstrong v. Walsh. How would you feel if you were Walsh and got sued, lost the lawsuit, had to pay up a small fortune, watch Armstrong flaunt the lie in your face and had most of the world think you were a liar, only to be vindicated a decade later. And instead of Armstrong having at least a modicum of decency to apologize to Walsh directly, he goes on Oprah?
FUCK THAT GUY.
He got sued and lost because he made accusations based on here say with no physical evidence or witnesses credible enough to back him up . It took 15 years millions of dollars and plenty of snitches trying to win favor with the governing body of corrupt sport to actually produce shit.
PHILLIP RIVERS CUOMO IS A HOLOCAUST DENYING 9-11 TRUTHER PEDOPHILE. now while most of this is probably true i can not prove it. if i were a respected jorunalist and i had that printed into publication i would open myself up to a lawsuit. this Walsh guy did just that and was sued. and i highly doubt he paid for it but rather whatever publication he had it printed in took the hit.
Here, have a read about some of the people who paid the price for telling the truth about Lance Armstrong?
[sports.yahoo.com]
Stitch, the readers of this site may never know if I am in fact a Holocaust denying 9-11 truther pedophile, but rest assurred that whoever the pustule-riddled, in-bred, mouth-breathing, shit-breathed, telemarketer who goes by the handle “Stitch” can now be considered the singularly most idiotic, worthless, inane, and ridiculed poster on this site. So you got that going for you. You have the floor.
Hasek, FYI: Livestrong doesn’t give money for cancer research.
[www.outsideonline.com]
Wow a famous person was a dick to people, come to think of it i don’t think that has ever happened before. we should run him out of town on a rail, wait no maybe get NASA on the phone and put him on a rocket and shoot him into the sun. basically he has people that were breaking the law saying lance armstrong was a jerk when he was also breaking the law. but whats with your anger towards him i don’t get it. he’s a real jerk sure, but you seem like quite the cunt yourself so just do some HGH and i sure you and lance could be the best of friends.
Here is a preview of the interview at [sorrysods.com]
Why does Oprah insist that everyone apologize to her or on her show?
This gambit didn’t play out very well for James Frey.
no man could beat him doping or not, he was a fucking beast and the thing that pissed of most people was that they were just destroyed by the guy. He did so much good for so many people , he inspired , raised millions and gave america something to be proud of on an international stage . That is why most of the cycling community has been after him , they hated that americans were beating them at their sport. Get over the bullshit cheating stuff, there is no sport free from advantages , hell baseball is just now going to test for HGH,
Get over yourselves, Armstrong was and will always be the winner of those races. They only strip the titles and wins from teams when the governing bodies look like fools and try and cover their asses anyway so fuck them.
I couldn’t stand the people that defended him so voraciously prior to all of this. Couldn’t care less about the PEDs, but his ridiculous fans made me hate the guy. But now that this is all out? Pretty ambivalent.
He was an average (for a pro) rider before drugs, and a world beater after. He bullied and manipulated his way to the top and paid off officials to cover it up. It has been an open secret in cycling for years.
The man is scum and people who stand up for him just need to do a little research into those 10 questions Walsh is proposing.
So Lance Armstrong was the best cheater in a sport that has nothing but cheaters in it? Big whoop.
I’m cereal. Sheryl Crow needs a back massage and a front rub to make her feel better about all this. Just sayin’. Lance’s junk was shriveled from all the juice. She needs the experience of a real man again.
Congratulations on winning Journalist of the Year, Dave. Congratulationa on winning Dipshit of the Week for putting that credential on your Oprah letter, ass. Also, this is is a comment section that belongs on YouTube. You’re better than this, Uproxx readers.