Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire
Remember as kids how we would use the chant, “Liar, liar, pants on fire”, when one of our buddies would get caught telling a big whopper? It was harmless yet still reinforced to the guilty party, “Don’t lie!” Kids did a lot more self governing back in those days.
Today I’m not so sure a kid wouldn’t get sent to the principals office and expelled for being a bully if he/she made this statement to another kid that just lied to them. After all the kid that lied could suffer traumatic psychological damage for being chastised by a peer bout their lying. And we certainly couldn’t condone that now could we? Political correctness at it’s finest!
It amazes and saddens me at how easily people lie today. Not just in athletics but society as a whole. Lying has become a part of everyday life and used for whatever purpose the liar chooses.
But if you call someone out for lying to you then you’re immediately insulting the liar’s integrity for lying to you. You’re supposed to take being lied to and pretend you weren’t lied to at all. Trust me!
There always seems to be major news stories and controversies of high profile athletes getting into trouble they can’t get out of. And most of them attempt to lie their way out of trouble as a first line of defense. Of course they have highly paid attorneys to help them lie their way out of a jam. And if the lie isn’t convincing enough they plea bargain.
Michael Vick has been in the news of late, indicted on dog fighting charges. His initial plea to these charges was “not guilty” and further explained to the world (through his lawyer, of course) how he loved animals and wasn’t at all involved in such a dastardly thing as dog fighting.
Well, as the world turns and three of his indicted dog fighting buddies pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution (don’t snitch now, boys!), Mr. Vick has had a sudden change of heart about his plea. Now he has agreed to plead guilty to dog fighting charges. Who let the dogs out?!….Whooo? Whoo? Whoo? Whoo? Whoo?
It’s all coming back to him now! Does Michael have a history of concussions? Amnesia? Opps, HIPPA law would never allow that to be revealed. My bad!
When it comes to the subject of dog fighting Michael Vick is a liar. And he would have continued lying his way through this mess if his defense team could have come up with a better lying strategy.
But Michael Vick is just one of many in the athletic world that have been over coddled, over catered to, and over paid for for so long their character and integrity takes a serious dive in the gutter. How does a high profile guy with a 130 million dollar salary get wrapped up in dog fighting? Real estate seems a much better (and legal) investment to me but I’ll never know either way.
Michael would have been way better off picking up a safer more leisurely hobby like… fly fishing! Just last month I bet (don’t tell the NCAA!) a good friend of mine a six pack that I would catch a bigger brown trout than he did. We used the honor system to determine the winner of this high stakes event. And I beat him by a whopping 2 inches! Which proves that I’m a better fly fisherman than he is. And it also proves that you can never trust people that like to fish.
They’re liars!
Help a kid to not lie today! It’s a Win, Win!
Ike
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