tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post3263664980865405526..comments2023-10-24T08:13:45.842-06:00Comments on Only in New Mexico: TV and the PRCJim Bacahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14019944863771287149noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-89999913242180360452013-01-22T14:18:24.816-07:002013-01-22T14:18:24.816-07:00I'm pretty sure any action requiring a vote by...I'm pretty sure any action requiring a vote by commissioners is subject to the Open Meetings Act....and since there is no such record of a vote suspending the superintendant, it would stand to reason they were not the cause of it. Just sayin'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11762382.post-39802128335867686962013-01-18T10:40:43.587-07:002013-01-18T10:40:43.587-07:00The BBC was all over that last night, too. I don&#...The BBC was all over that last night, too. I don't know how the US media is treating this. We have this need to create these heroes, and if it's an Anglo Saxon male hero we don't want to take him down off the pedestal.<br /><br />The BBC has no such qualms going after Americans. We usurped them in the worldwide superiority business, after all, and after they were done with him it was easy to feel no sympathy for Armstrong at all.<br /><br />They went into how he tried to destroy anyone who accused him of doping, including the wife of one of his teammates.<br /><br />They had a UK sports writer in the studio who'd written one of the first books laying out the Armstrong doping scandal. This guy had a 12-year old son who'd died in a bicycle accident. He couldn't keep from breaking down in tears as he told about how Armstrong spread it around that he had a vendetta against cycling because of his son's death.<br /><br />Armstrong assailed his reputation in other ways, and he broke telling about that, too. His book came out back in '98 and it's still very painful for him to talk about what Armstrong did to him, and it was painful to listen to. <br /><br />Everyone the BBC talked to who is on the inside of cycling or in the anti doping agency expressed anger or disgust about the interview. They say Armstrong is still lying about the vast doping network he oversaw, and see this interview with Oprah, who knows little about the subject, as a cynical attempt to regain some of his endorsements and get back into cycling. They say Armstrong has violated controlled substance laws and committed perjury, and they want to see him answer questions under oath in a court of law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com