Posted on 08/25/2016 6:59:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Loctke is a 32 year old man not a frat kid. He’s also a representative of the USA when at the Olympics in another country. I would expect him to be a mentor and example for the younger guys. I don’t care to see his life ruined but he’s the one who was so drunk he got himself in a bad situation in a foreign country. He needs to grow up.
How many times can you ask the same question, was my thought after the few minutes I listened too.
How about asking Hillary one or two real questions?
And, the reason we should all care is that this type of lazy, conformist, corrupt reporting shapes a lot of our lives as people form opinions based on lies, not the facts, and our politicians are then driven to act upon those misperceptions.
The poor 32 year old child can’t be expected to act in a civil manner
NBC used a sizeable chunk of time on the Olympics Prime broadcast to show segments of the Lauer/Lochte interview. They even promoted the conclusion of the interview to be shown on the Today show on Monday. I wonder if they rearranged questions and answers, etc. like happens on "60 Minutes."
This had no business taking time from the athletes, even it it had been accurate. It enraged me. Lauer did to Lochte what the MSM can do to anyone they don't like. Not caring about the actual facts is what they do to conservatives all the time. NBC just had a different type victim this time.
NBC should have known, at the least, that three minutes of the time-stamped videotape were missing from what had been broadcast and wondered why. I despise the MSM.
Career suicide by stupidity.
Exactly .....
Brainwashing works. It takes 125% vigilance all the time to be (mostly) free of it. It’s exhausting.
Having actually lived for a while in South America, I knew how "police" did their duty, so I always was skeptical. And with Brazil, you probably have the worst of it, so I was even more so. Its a shame the media is so... Media..
Hillary lies. The media tries to make her president.
When they take another man's freedom and you don't complain or care, no one will complain or care when they take yours. The media is out of control, but you don't care because you haven't had to pay a price yet.
This story lasted as long as it did only because Obama’s daughter was caught smoking weed. Had that not happened we would have been done with this story several days before it ended.
It’s like the earthquake story in Italy. That is wiping Hillary out of the headlines.
And even if that were true, does it excuse the media from not doing a proper job?
Yes, the media IS out of control. But the temporary loss of freedom question should be imposed to Lochte who saved his own a$$ first, right?
“... they were charged a wad of cash while held at gunpoint..”
Lochte’s behavior may have been “frat boyish” and I’m not defending that part; however, a “private security guard” holding a gun and taking money is armed robbery. No different IMHO is if I ran a stop sign (behavior is wrong) but a cop held a gun towards me and demanded money... then let me go on my way.
“But the narrative already had been chosen by the media – Lochte is an arrogant jerk, party boy – so why bother seeing if he was telling the truth before ruining his life? And ruin his life they did.
Lochte lost all his sponsors, all his income, because the media found a story that was too good to check.
Rather than do journalism, or even report the truth after having gotten the facts wrong, the media simply spins on.”
Meanwhile, you are dealing with one of the few police forces in the world that makes Mexican police look honest. You are also dealing with people - Brazilians - who were shamed by the crime, shamed by their inability to have clean water, accomodations, etc. - and looking for a scapegoat, looking for a means to restore SOME pride, to take SOME attention away from their nation’s own shortcomings. Ryan Lochte, jerk that he MIGHT be (or might not, we’ll never know), was just a target of opportunity. So they ruined his life for a few hours of sensationalistic reporting.
Screw the media, I hate their guts. The profession of journalism, particularly investigative journalism, is long dead and gone. Now it consists of a bunch of syncophantic children spewing the Uniparty line about EVERYTHING.
He lied.
They reported.
Maybe the reportage was laid on a bit thick.
Oh, no - it was NOT armed robbery, nosiree!
The security guard/off-duty cop simply held the gun on him. In an utterly unrelated event, Lochte decided to generously give said security guard/off-duty cop the contents of his wallet.
What’s the problem here? :>)
Oh horses feathers
Ryan has signed up for dancing with the stars
None, repeat none, of this would have happened had they been sober
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