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Friday, October 12, 2012

Daily Kos: Lance Armstrong: All-American Bull$#!@

Daily Kos: Lance Armstrong: All-American Bull$#!@:


Lance Armstrong: All-American Bull$#!@

DISCLAIMER AND SPOILER: If you are a Lance Armstrong advocate, please relax and read on. This isn't really about Lance, but it is about you, and you, and you, and the good ol' U.S. of A.
In August, The Onion ran a brilliant faux-news story on the increasingly discredited Tour de France champion:"Lance Armstrong Lets Down Single Person Who Still Believed Him."
On October 10, 2012, the USADA released a staggering report on not just Armstrong, but essentially every recognizable American cyclist during Armstrong's reign as the king of the Tour de France. Throughout the decades of charges of doping against Armstrong, the humor in The Onion article has been factually discredited since Armstrong supporters have remained undeterred by evidence of any kind regarding his use of PEDs. With the USADA release, the same pattern has occurred on Facebook and other social media with droves of people