My personal opinion is that Armstrong is being grossly unfairly
attacked by people with really bad axes to grind (probably the losing
attorneys/parties in the Texas arbitration) and his/America's enemies
in France and elsewhere. The USA has twice bailed France out of deep
doo-doo in the last century (at considerable cost in American lives),
and many left-wingers from there can't forgive us for it. Then when a
superior athlete comes along and defeats the best the Frogs can put up
-- many times running -- the same people find any excuse to try to
destroy the better man.
While technically Armstrong did not "win" the Texas Arbitration -- it
was a settlement -- in my business (litigation) no one pays that kind
of money if they don't expect to lose big-time.
And, yes, at another time I'd refer to the LA Times as a real
commie-pinko-liberal rag. I'm not sure why I still read it. The
article was nothing but a re-hash of prior reports all dressed up as an
"investigative report." And that's just trash.
Dave C
wvantwiller wrote:
> [email protected] wrote in news:1152475878.467165.180490
> @b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
>
> > Rich Clark wrote:
> >> There is nothing new here. Just a compilation of unsubstantiated or
> >> previously refuted allegations from suspect European sources or former
> >> Armstrong associates with axes to grind and the taste of sour grapes in
> >> their mouths.
> >
> > Interesting that they save the most relevant piece of information for
> > the last paragraph.
> >
> > Armstrong won the arbitration hearing and was paid $5 million.
> >
>
> Kinda sad that reporters seem to be all the failed Liberal Arties who
> couldn't get into Law School...
