So I'm sure by now you've all heard about the Michael Phelps picture. If not, (wake up) it's a picture of him at a party taking a hit from a bong. Phelps has since admitted that it was marijuana. It should end there. This is the worst case of yellow journalism I have ever seen. Everyone is crying because he is a role model. Others insist he has ruined any chance at future sponsorships. I believe it has little to do with either of those and more to do with our country's pathetic sociological patterns. We love to see failure. Plenty of rappers and musicians openly admit to smoking weed, no one cares. But when someone has a lot to lose because of it, we can't wait to hear about it.
Phelps spent hours and hours training for the Olympics where he made us all proud to be Americans. Can we please just leave him alone?
-- Caligula on the go
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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totally agree man, who cares if he smoked some mary j
ReplyDeleteyou see this kind of stuff too much now days, they just started up the whole barry bonds thing again. Its a shame if this hurts Michael after all the work hes put in.
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