Scott McIsn’t is full of shit. Sharron Angle is full of shit. Jon Kyl is full of shit. John Boehner is full of shit. Sue Myrick is full of shit. I think I’m starting to see a pattern here. … and it looks like a pachyderm’s footprint.
While we’re speaking about shit, Texus Maximus appears to have stepped in some. It’s tough to keep knocking ’em out of the park when the press has finally benched the fat teenager slow-pitching the softballs and brought up the major leaguer with the rocket-propelled arm. Am I an owner? A rider? Christ, ask me something about cancer, can’t you?
Hell, I can’t remember what I was doing 15 minutes ago, much less in 2004, and nobody from The New York Times is asking me about it, something that tends to peg the Fear needle at redline. I immediately channel the late Richard Pryor berating a fanboy snapping pix of him during a standup. “What you taking my picture for? Who you gonna show it to?” he demanded.
Call me cynical, but I expect that RadioShack’s PR flacks will be the ones dodging the beanballs going forward. “Ms. Macur? Hello, I’m Fullo Schidt, Mr. Armstrong’s intern for Media Ax-Grinding and Agendas … how may I be of assistance?”
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I need a smoking gun on the Texus Maximus allegations. Too much ambiguity.
I find it interesting to note that if things were so totally legal and within the rules during this period WHY is BigTex trying SO hard to make it seem he had no control over the goings-on on “his” team? I bet once all the guys testify and all the cheating is admitted and the real control system is understood — it’ll be BigTex and his Belgian pal acting like Sergeant Shultz on the old Hogan’s Heroes comedy series. They knew nothing, they saw nothing, they did nothing — all those rotten cheaters somehow designed and ran their own secret doping program individually and all the people in control never suspected a thing. They’ll paint themselves as the victims rather than the criminals. But more than BigTex and the Belgian, the feds need to get to the real kingpins, the crooked docs and scientists and perhaps even the UCI who seems to be doing a lot to discredit Landis for guys who like to say everything THEY did was totally transparent and in the best SPORTING (note I did not write financial) interests of cycling.
In Tex’s latest interview, he indeed sounds a lot like Sgt. Schultz, esp. when half the Blogosphere chimes in with copies of his past depositions.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/armstrong-appears-to-contradict-2005-testimony/
The real criminals are the enterprise controllers. There is no way that individual riders could pull this off without direct complicity from above. The science of doping is not cheap and you can’t pay for it selling cookies or even bicycles. There had to have been widespread collusion from up top.