Ryan Lochte got suspended from swimming for 10 months. [Dlisted]
Patrick Dempsey massages the truth on People Mag’s cover. [LaineyGossip]
Chloe Moretz in matchy-grey leggings and sweatshirt. [Popoholic]
Bethenny Frankel says some RHONYs are using cocaine. [Reality Tea]
Soulja Boy impregnated someone. [Starcasm]
Christie Brinkley was born in 1954, just FYI. [Celebslam]
Britney Spears ended her battle with Sam Lufti. [ICYDK]
What it’s like to be with a gaslighting boyfriend for years. [XOJane]
Rihanna looks pretty on the cover of CR Fashion Book. [IDLY]
The best tantrums from Toddlers & Tiaras. [Seriously OMG WTF]
David Gandy holds a tiny kitten. [Socialite Life]
Even being on Dancing with the Stars still isn’t enough punishment. Idiots.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Ha!!
I am not a big fan of Mr Lying Liar. Or Mr Exaggerator. Whatever.
He is lucky to only get 10 months.
Aquadick suits him better.
Perfect nickname!
Well deserved douchebag.
I’m all for Lochte getting punished but I don’t think it’s fair that he got a significantly longer suspension than Michael Phelps. I think drunk driving is worse than making an ass out of yourself.
But him making an ass of himself cause a international incident. The was a huge problem.
It should have been a year’s suspension for both.
Drunk driving is still worse though (in my mind, at least).
I think it’s the media that turned the whole thing into an international incident. They’re the ones with the power to give so much coverage to an incident like this. It’s not like Ryan Lochte can order the media to cover his antics (and how he says “Jeah.”)
To clarify, I guess I’m of the opinion that Lochte was doing some stupid male macho posturing and bravado rather than actually intending any kind of malice towards Brazil.
In Phelps’s case, he was lucky no one died when he was drunk driving. He didn’t intend malice either, but the consequences could have been deadly if luck wasn’t on his side.
I can’t believe people are defending Ryan!
Are you his lawyer? He said the same thing. He blamed the media. But he should blame HIMSELF.
“rather than actually intending any kind of malice towards Brazil.” But now he is doing it. He even hired some people to do it.
“Are you his lawyer?”
Does it matter? Are any of us? Are you? Good luck to you, if you are.
It’s not about defending Lochte, but someone made the comparison between Phelps and Lochhe, and I do think that what Phelps did was worse than Lochte even though I’m sure he didn’t intend malice either. That was my point.
If Lochte wasn’t getting suspended, sure, i could get up in harms but he’s been charged in Brazil and he’s now suspended. He’s facing sanctions and getting punished. I never even claimed whether I thought the punishment was fair or not. To me, it just is what it is. He did something, he’s getting punished, and beyond that oh well, now he has to serve it out.
Michael phelps didn’t cause an international incident. In my opinion, Ryan Lochte got off easier than he should have.
His suspension won’t let him compete at the World’s next year, which hurts him as an older athlete in his 30s, so I think the USOC did carefully and methodically think about how they could send a message to him. For his age, I think his suspension does hurt him competitively. (And I’m not arguing that it is too strong — just simply noting that I think the USOC has put in a punishment that doesn’t necessarily ease up on him).
*eyeroll* your Douchebro Princeling will be fine, he’s fine, he’s been fine, he’s just gonna be embarrassed a little, plenty of sweet coeds will assuage his embarrassment, mommy is still here, new sponsorship possibilities about
OK I read that as “sausage his embarrassment” and felt a bit sick. But yeah (sorry Jeah!) he will not suffer any long term fallout.
They will also help him do THAT , Jeah
Mommy is the real source of the trouble. He didn’t go to the media, he just told his mom the embellished story. She’s the one who trotted to the media. Otherwise, nobody else would have known about it. Mom needs to shut up.
Um, no. As a parent I’d be pretty concerned if my child (even adult one) had been mugged and I felt that the organisation was trying to sweep it under the rug to protect their image. I’d be not only concerned about the ongoing safety of my child but all other people there.
This one is on Lochte. He embellished a story, got his family upset and they spoke out to protect him. After his mom went to the media he could have very easily controlled the situation by talking to her and telling her a more truthful story and then reiterating to the media that nothing happened.
He is a grown man that let a lie spiral into an international incident. He deserves 100% of the responsibility for this.
Apparently she didn’t even go to the media. She was riding on a bus with some of the press folks and was talking about what a bad time they’d had this Olympics – she’d broken her foot, her son didn’t do great and he’d gotten robbed. And the guy she was talking to figured out that she was Lochte’s mom. Now, she apparently knew she was talking to a reporter, but was just conversing. So that I’ll give a pass on.
Well said, chaser. I can’t believe anyone is actually trying to defend Lochte here.
I’m not sure he’s smart enough or self aware enough to actually be embarrassed unless someone tells him he should be
I would agree.
I think it’s ridiculous that Michael Phelps only got a six month suspension for putting people’s lives at risk, while Lochte is getting 10 months for essentially lying to his mother and then making an idiot of himself.
Lochte’s story caused an international embarrassment but I agree that Phelps deserved better
Don’t forget that what Lochte did was a crime too. He made a false police report at the most important international meet for his sport.
I don’t disagree with you though, because I think DD is the absolute worst of the worst. But let’s not underplay what Lochte did. He was actively being a representative for his country and he committed a crime.
I’m confused about the police report thing. I was under the impression that he didn’t actually file a police report but that the police approached him and questioned him. Whether he told the truth at that juncture, I have no idea, but if he didn’t actually file a police report in order to initiate the police into investigating, I’m baffled as to how he can be charged for that (even his statements to police were misleading — I say this, because everybody keeps talking about the filing of the report being illegal, not whether making a misleading statement when a police officer approaches you is illegal. I have no experience with either — so I don’t know the legality of the procedures involved, and the news hasn’t done a good job of explaining whether the latter is illegal in Brazil).
perplexed:
“I was under the impression that he didn’t actually file a police report but that the police approached him and questioned him. Whether he told the truth at that juncture, I have no idea, but if he didn’t actually file a police report in order to initiate the police into investigating…”
The police approached him and questioned him and he LIED. It IS illegal.
@Perplexed
Jimmy Feigen, per his own statement, was the one who filed the police report – under orders from USOC officials.
As for Lochte, right now I have no idea what is true, if he’s charged with something or not. 95% of what the Brazilian police have said has turned out to be false, e.g. the bathroom thrashing was entirely made up.
There was a good summary of the case by Nancy Armour in USA TODAY Sports yesterday.
He demonstrated anti-social behaviour (crime in the UK), was drunk and disorderly (crime in the UK) and, in a group, committed minor criminal damage (crime in the UK) and then lied to the police about it to obstruct justice (crime in the UK).
I’m sure there are equivalents in both the US and Brazil. There is absolutely nothing to be confused about.
This is the sort of thing that would get you a fine and maybe some community service in the UK. If it was your umpteenth time in court for similar, you might get a short prison sentence.
Drink driving is also bad. Sports stars seldom receive sanctions that are of an equivalent severity to those non-famous people receive.
“There is absolutely nothing to be confused about.”
I’m confused about the procedural nature of what he’s being charged with in Brazil according to their country’s laws. Law comes down to procedure as much as interpretation by the judge. I’m not confused as to why he was punished by the US Olympic Committee (he was a representative of his country and they’ve made it clear that the punishment relates to that, is my understanding. I know the younger guy got sanctions for breaking curfew because he was under 21. That is an issue I have no confusion about. There’s no ambiguity in their wording. I have no questions about the USOC or the IOC — they have their own rules about what they consider appropriate behaviour and he broke them.)
If he was charged with anti-social behaviour or being drunk and disorderly, I wouldn’t have a question either about Brazilian law. That’s a charge that no one, including Lochte, is disputing, He’d most likely plead guilty and face whatever is coming since he’s made a clear admission of guilt on tv. But that’s not what he’s actually being charged with.
Procedurally what constitutes a false police report according to Brazil or Rio ( what Lochte is actually being charged with) is what I have a question about. That has never really been made clear by the media. And who knows whether it ever actually will be if he simply settles out of country and doesn’t face a trial.
The USA Today articles give the clearest investigation of what Lochte and his teammates were doing, but the USA Today articles note wrongdoing on the part of the police as well, and procedurally that can affect a case as well. Was Lochte immature, drunk, disorderly, etc. Sure. But that’s not the actual charge he’s facing in Brazil. If he had been charged with actually being drunk, well, then I’d have no questions since everybody, including his own mouth, have outright admitted that he was drunk.
“The police approached him and questioned him and he LIED. It IS illegal.”
Procedurally, we don’t know what he actually said in the police report though, and whether or not his words were more (or less) measured than what he said on the Today show (did he say the gun was cocked to his forehead in the police report?) We know he lied to Billy Bush and Al Roker and his poor mom, but we don’t actually know what he said to the police. That’s also where my confusion comes from. He isn’t being charged with what he said to his mother; he’s being charged with what he said to the police. And no one has really cleared up what he actually said in the actual filing (or who filed).
What he said to the US media is being conflated with what he said in the robbery report, but we have no idea if he said the same thing in the actual report. It’s not like Matt Lauer really helped to clear matters up.
Thank you, chaser. People are conveniently leaving those facts out of it.
“The police approached him and questioned him and he LIED. It IS illegal.”
Seriously, it seems like some people here haven’t read all the facts.
“He demonstrated anti-social behaviour (crime in the UK), was drunk and disorderly (crime in the UK) and, in a group, committed minor criminal damage (crime in the UK) and then lied to the police about it to obstruct justice (crime in the UK).
I’m sure there are equivalents in both the US and Brazil. There is absolutely nothing to be confused about.
This is the sort of thing that would get you a fine and maybe some community service in the UK. If it was your umpteenth time in court for similar, you might get a short prison sentence.
Drink driving is also bad. Sports stars seldom receive sanctions that are of an equivalent severity to those non-famous people receive.”
Best summation I’ve seen so far. And, there are equivalents. Being drunk and disorderly is a crime in the U.S. as well. As is minor criminal damage, there’s just a different term for it. Lying to police is considered obstruction of justice in the U.S. too and IS illegal, it’s a very serious offense actually.
“Best summation I’ve seen so far. And, there are equivalents. Being drunk and disorderly is a crime in the U.S. as well. As is minor criminal damage, there’s just a different term for it. Lying to police is considered obstruction of justice in the U.S. too and IS illegal, it’s a very serious offense actually.”
But he’s not actually being charged with being drunk and disorderly. It is a crime but that’s not the crime he’s actually being charged with by Brazil. He did violate USOC rules, and he (and the other swimmers) have been charged according to those rules and are now facing sanctions accordingly, and no one is arguing that those sanctions should be removed.
We also know he lied to the media and to his mother, but no one has actually stated what he said in the police report. What he said in the police report could be different from what he said to Billy Bush or his mother. Having someone release it would clear things up but I don’t know if police reports are actually released. I don’t get why anyone should think that asking for clarification as to what he actually said in the police report is some kind of defence of Lochte — asking for clarification would give a better understanding of how his case COULD proceed in Brazil.
Phelps didn’t cause an international incident. He was smart enough not to get into trouble while in training, let alone at the biggest sporting event in the world while representing his country. Why are people so eager to dismiss that and act like Lochte’s some sort of victim? He’s not.
Who is acting like Lochte is a victim though?
The law works differently than vague wording on a message board. People have to use clear procedures to argue the case. If what he said in the police report is different than what he told Billy Bush, then the outcome of his case could be different than what is anticipated. (But who knows? He might just agree to a plea deal to get things over with).
And, yeah, he was drunk and disorderly, but so far Brazil hasn’t charged him with that particular charge. It’s not even clear to me if the USOC did — they say the athletes should not have “maligned” their hosts and ” diverted attention away from the historic achievements of Team USA,” and were thus given sanctions for acting this way. But even they didn’t seem to say being drunk and disorderly was a a violation of their statutes. The youngest swimmer got sanctions for violating curfew, not for being disorderly or drunk. That’s simply pointing out the specificity of the language used, not defending anybody.
Being drunk and disorderly is a crime everywhere, sure. But if that’s not what Lochte is actually being charged with in Brazil, I don’t see the point of arguing the legal interpretation of that in this specific case. It can be relevant to Lochte’s overall image (just as Phelps’s DUI is to his), but it isn’t really relevant if what he did say in the police report isn’t fabricated like what he said to Billy Bush. Would’t Rio courts have to prove that what Lochte said was untrue? What if it turns out that it wasn’t if his words were more carefully measured in the police report than it was to the Today Show? Once the police came calling and he was more sober (and possibly terrified of getting caught up in obstruction of justice), I do think it’s possible he may not have said the gun was cocked to his forehead. The rest of what he said does align with what occurs in the video however, and that could pose a potential problem to the police if the Rio courts have to prove he lied.
DWTS should be ashamed for putting this useless tool on the show.
I’m with you on that. DWTS is so thirsty, they’ll pretty much take anybody on that show. I mean come on, they had Bristol Palin on the show for gosh sake. Enough said. They have no morals or standards.
The sh*tty stunt Lochte pulled is far more injurious to ‘Murrica than Colin Kaepernick’s bent knee.
Yeah those aren’t even in the same category. Kaepernick is exercising his constitutional freedom to peacefully protest. Criminal activity isn’t at all protected by the constitution.
I was struck by the punishments the 20 year olds got. They won’t be able to go to the White House for their win.
Doofus.
Is he even smart enough to be embarrassed about this? This is a serious question.
Probably not! He should be embarrassed for lying to his poor mother. He must have scared the sh*t out of her for that stunt. Shame on him!!
he seems to suddenly have aged a lot. i guess it’s the uber-brown forehead tan.
I’m ashamed to still find him very attractive physically even though every other part of him is ugh.
I was struck by the fact that one of the younger swimmers got sanctions and must face community service for breaking curfew. Nobody really says it was inappropriate for him to be drunk and “partying”, but rather to be out after hours.