Nice piece, Chris…

…the other day he proposed people kill cyclists. He has an issue controlling the stuff that spouts out of his mouth and only says “sorry” when he hears all the people complaining about his rants. He’s not actually sorry – he just feels bad that he actually picked on a bunch of people that are willing to stand up to his rants.

Yes, he got carried away. He can be sorry all he wants but he must change.

In another month, we’ll see if he actually changed, but I am guessing he’ll be off ranting on some other demographic next time – maybe the only positive I see is he’ll lay off cyclists for awhile because we stand up to this BS.

He should have pushed for an apology on TK’s national show though

you can call me a Lance fanboy. I know others will wish he had raked K over the coals on air, but I am satisfied with the outcome.

I found it interesting that K’s daughter rides a bike, so I’d have to agree that he probably isn’t the evil maimer of cyclists he portrayed himself to be yesterday. That said, I still think he’s an idiot. You’d think a guy who’d recently been put in the penalty box for shooting his mouth off would be a little more careful with his tongue.

The man did screw up and not on accident. His words were a well played rant. I think he is an ass and I have no intention on tuning in to ever hear what he has to say. I’m actually disappointed that someone in that position can make such statements and it’s brushed under a rug and we’re moving along.

Sadly, IMO, this is a serious disappointment and the winner here – lucky them – is ESPN who got unbelievable hits on their site to listen to the archive and then got tons more today that tuned into to hear Lance on his show. No suspension no serious hand slap, nothing.

Last month was the disgraceful remarks about Storm and now the irresponsible comments on cyclists. Extremely disappointed that ESPN would keep such a loser when they have writers like Bonnie Ford and the like that are passionate about sports. Kornheiser disgraces everyone who works and writes for ESPN and I for one am simply disappointed today.

    There must be more deserving people out there who could capably fill his time slots. If ESPN doesn’t do anything about this matter they might as well publicly condone it. That’s not an acceptable option in my book.

This was not a one-time foray in to mow-‘em-down by Kornheiser. He’s done it for years and years. But this is the first time he got Lance’s attention. We’ll see if that was enough to really put an end to it.

I think TK was scared yesterday by the population that came knocking at his door. I think he learned a lesson about how some remarks can and will be spread around the world in a heartbeat. I don’t think it really changed his mind about the remarks he made or that he is really sorry. As the impact and it’s messages hits him some more, perhaps his mind will change. I think it may have started yesterday but this fat meat head shouldn’t get off this easy for the wrongs he’s committed.

I am very disappointed in ESPN for keeping someone like this on their staff. To help make myself feel better, I am continuing my complaint to ESPN HERE and I’m noting my complaint about their staff member.

My issue or disappointment in this is not Lance, nor do I have an issue with anyone that is moving on. I simply find the things this man has said to be so distasteful that it’s made me left feeling with nothing but disappointment in terms of ESPN’s handling of this irresponsible staff member.

If you are still disappointed or possibly feel like holding ESPN responsible for their lack of action with this guy, please take the 2 minutes to click on the link and log a complaint. At least you can say you did more than get angered by him and that you at least let ESPN know that his comments are not welcome on the air.

I appreciate his bringing attention to such ridiculousness on TK’s part, but im not buying Armstrong for much more than his own self-interest. Call me a Lance cynic if ya want, im not gonna see this episode as savior Lance righting the wrongs of the media. Im sure such an incident will happen again, maybe different contexts though. He just jumped in to be self-righteous, and in the process didn’t go far enough to push him to an apology. Should I be happy with the attempt, yeah i guess when you take the action for what it was, but when I read into it with my never changing views of the man, I see a publicity grab on both ends.

  I’ve been disappointed with Lance as a result of what he’s done on social media, but I think he did well on this one. He put a face on cyclists, and made several good points about cyclists being people, too. +1 Lance (something I’d forgotten how to write.)

  That being said, the whole interview was a bit too conciliatory to me, and I still feel like the winners in this event are ESPN and their sponsors. Exposure is everything, and this was HUGE exposure. Shock jocks aren’t paid to say the right thing. They’re paid to get noticed by potential consumers of the sponsors’ products.

  Overall, I’m disappointed in how this went down, and I think we’ve been played by marketing. But just as this got many of us to listen to ESPN (even if only once), if some of that guy’s listeners think twice before going off when they spot a cyclist in the road, I’ll take it.

And fuck ESPN. Both are useless.

Listen to the show this all started.

They were all in on this, but no attempt to apologize from them.
In fact, I’d say the actual apology lacked any believable sincerity at all.

I happen to think Lance tried really hard to allow Tony the chance to say that under no circumstances is it alright to ‘lightly’ hit a person on a bicycle.
He never really did, but rather chose to brush it all off as if he got carried away.

Here is a link to the Facebook Group “Fire Tony Kornheiser, Cyclist Hater”