Lance Armstrong... greatest doper there was or ever will be

why on earth would mainstream media call conspiracy on those who accuse armstrong of doping? (if that's what you were implying, sorry i found that opening paragraph a bit difficult to follow)

Deep breath......aaannnnddddd........

If you have to ask why the mainstream press would kick up a stink if there 'golden poster boy'..

was found out to be a lying cheating shit....

then you really shouldn't be having this argument...

Fucking hell....that *is what the media do....*they engineer situations...for the betterment of corporate gain?

Without trying to sound unnecessarily harsh...

if you lived on a desert island of pearl fishers...like the one that Henri found himself on...and have a bamboo bike with coconut wheels....and watch the giro on satellite...I apologise...obviously there isn't a 'problem' like there would be anywhere else...and your innocence regarding the wholesale corruption of the media would be understandable...

however...

though if you live in europe...or the 'west'...it's pretty obvious the press are very, very wrong...almost 95% of the worlds press are owned by the same (I'm pretty sure 5 or 6 people...or less...murdoch has most of the 'free west' ie america, most of europe, most of australasia....you get the picture...

pick up a copy of No logo..or stupid white men....or something equally brutal regarding the media, it's poster boys...George Bush lost the first election for his presidency to the tune of something like 500,000 votes...Though Fox...ran the story...and that....was that.

and the hundreds of millions of dollars that are 'generated'....

This is where the demarkation between heroes of sport...and the heroes of commerce start to become blurred...

Everything, Everyone....etcetera...around Lance...stand to lose incredible amounts of money, respect, money, kudos, money, whatever, money...if he is found to be a phoney..

the point is,..he is a phoney...that is why this media circus, his lawyers, his sponsors, everyone..

are backing him...

Because they know he isn't that clean....

He wouldn't need the lawyers if he wasn't...

He could just say...ok...

you want proof..?

I'll test every month for 12 months...

whatver you want...

that would be it, the rumours would stop.

end of.