Is anyone else getting bored with this already?

rick_chasey

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Richmond Racer

Rick Chasey wrote:

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Has this whole thing, in fact, been concocted by you and t'other mods as a way to traffic to BR?

Come on Rick, it's time to tell the truth

rick_chasey

Richmond Racer wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Has this whole thing, in fact, been concocted by you and t'other mods as a way to traffic to BR?

Come on Rick, it's time to tell the truth

tailwindhome

Rick Chasey wrote:

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Would new contibutors on a 'Lance' story not typcially be of the '500+ tests all clean' variety?

I'm guessing there ain't many left.

rick_chasey

TailWindHome wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Would new contibutors on a 'Lance' story not typcially be of the '500+ tests all clean' variety?

I'm guessing there ain't many left.

As I was saying in another thread, a few people I know who took little interest in cycling have probably read a good 2000 pages worth of published books on it since all this kicked off.

Richmond Racer

Rick Chasey wrote:

TailWindHome wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Would new contibutors on a 'Lance' story not typcially be of the '500+ tests all clean' variety?

I'm guessing there ain't many left.

As I was saying in another thread, a few people I know who took little interest in cycling have probably read a good 2000 pages worth of published books on it since all this kicked off.

Oh well, silver lining for Holy Dave then

Richmond Racer

Rick Chasey wrote:

Richmond Racer wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Slightly disappointed the whole blanket media furor hasn't generated a few new contributors.

Has this whole thing, in fact, been concocted by you and t'other mods as a way to traffic to BR?

Come on Rick, it's time to tell the truth

Oooh, I might rename myself Richmond Simeoni

rob churchill

No, I'm not bored with it, and the funny thing is the more his lawyers say 'people are bored with it and no-one really cares' the less bored I get and the more I care.

Lichtblick

You're right. You're all right. Sorreeeeeeeeeeeeeee...............

I guess what I really meant, was, bored with the rehashing of the story, by print and online media journalists, which we all knew anyway. What I meant was, I read all this stuff and hardly ever read anything which I didn't already know, because I've had my suspicions for so long.

I briefly clicked on a website earlier (don't remember which) and the responses to the article were overwhelmingly from angry Americans who couldn't see why their taxes had funded the USADA enquiry. But all that says is that there are many Americans who can be bothered to post that, but not be bothered to read more widely about one of their own who accepted Government money to fund the Postal team in the first place.

The only other thing I've learned in all the media-fest, is that the UCI v. Kimmage court case is still on-going.

Lichtblick

THIS is the kind of thing I mean, from the Telegraph today (usually a less stupid paper):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... tions.html

She weaves Lance Armstrong into the Jimmy Savile story, and, wait for it, they are "victims of celebrity cult". Twice she says "Armstrong’s alleged drug-taking".

This kind of bleeding-heart liberalism sickens me. She clearly has not read a single page of the USADA evidence to the UCI (easily readable as we all know), and it makes me even more sick that this kind of tripe gets published in the not-red-top-rag Telegraph. I presume she's on a £xxx,xxx contract for churning this out. :shock:

I hope someone answers this, because I've looked the link up, and posted it just for you.
Thanks.

Pross

Telegraph being accused of bleeding-heart liberalism? That's a new one :shock: Next someone will be accusing the Daily Mail of being overly-PC!

the article don

I think you've missed the point of that article. She's not condoning Saville or Armstrong's actions. Her article is simply making the very straightforward point that the malaise of celebrity culture can make people (fans or otherwise) blind to the darker aspects of said celebrity's personal or professional lives. You can accuse the Toryraph of a lot but bleeding hearted liberalism is not usually one of its failings.

RichN95.

the article don wrote:

I think you've missed the point of that article. She's not condoning Saville or Armstrong's actions. Her article is simply making the very straightforward point that the malaise of celebrity culture can make people (fans or otherwise) blind to the darker aspects of said celebrity's personal or professional lives. You can accuse the Toryraph of a lot but bleeding hearted liberalism is not usually one of its failings.

Maybe that explains the enduring popularity of Charlie Sheen. You know exactly where you stand with him.

Monty Dog

Nope, I'm not getting bored at all after the years of abuse that was aimed at 'non-believers' from the celebrity cult-ists.

I'm also still waiting for DennisN to settle his outstanding wager from the 2010 Tour too....but expect that seeing Larry fess-up on Oprah's sofa is a more likely ;-)