Lance Armstrong: This Bob Ley Interview From 2006 Reveals Far More Than Oprah Will
Bob Ley interviewed Lance Armstrong for “Outside The Lines” about allegations into his performance enhancing drug use in June 2006. Ley brings the heat for 10 minutes. Lance deflects and retreats to clichés and talking points.
This interview highlights the paramount point about Lance Armstrong. He’s not a jerk for taking performance enhancing drugs (everyone else was/is) or even for not being forthright about it (understandable). He’s a jerk for bullying and callously impugning the integrity and character of former colleagues, former employees, legends of the sport, media members and anyone else who stood in his way. People trying to tell the truth.

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January 15th, 2013 at 3:35 PM
Oprah’s a cunt anyways.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:35 PM
Looking forward to the millions of $$$ in judgments soon to hit this fraudiest of frauds. Also, I’m really hoping it’s true that he recently had to take out a loan against his house. Dick.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:36 PM
I’d say he’s way more than a jerk. Jerk is way too polite a term. Destroyed people’s livelihoods and reputations.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Does anyone really care about cycling?
/TBL’d
January 15th, 2013 at 3:37 PM
Heard he’s still worth $100 million. I wouldn’t worry too much about his house, PD.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:38 PM
He should be sent to federal-pound-him-in-the-ass prison.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:39 PM
Oprah should be in prison.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:40 PM
The OWN network is so bad it’s criminal!
January 15th, 2013 at 3:40 PM
What did he do that was so wrong again? You telling me every single NFL player doesn’t take HGH?
January 15th, 2013 at 3:41 PM
im telling you that, yea.
/it’s like 75% yo
January 15th, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Oprah’s a cunt anyways.
yup. cannot stand her.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:41 PM
He says what he did wrongly in the whopping 200 words in this post. He bullied those who tried to tell the truth.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Can we just agree that without rules, people will screw each other any chance they get to get ahead, and with rules people are just going to try to find ways to cirsumvrent them (if you get this misspelling you get a bonus point).
January 15th, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Read Wetzel’s piece on Yahoo. Oh and it’s my contention that Live Strong is a front for a criminal enterprise.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:42 PM
You telling me every single NFL player doesn’t take HGH?
no. also, the ones that do take hgh, now i need this confirmed, but i dont think they publically deny it and destroy all that oppose. i think,
January 15th, 2013 at 3:43 PM
Heard he’s still worth $100 million. I wouldn’t worry too much about his house, PD.
Oh, he could be in deep, deep shit. Lawyering will eat up half his net worth.
/realizes nothing will happen to him.
What did he do that was so wrong again? You telling me every single NFL player doesn’t take HGH?
Whatever your moral stance is on athletes using drugs is isn’t even in the equation. He has ruined people’s lives with his lies and deceptions. A lot of people are going to want their pound of flesh out of him.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:44 PM
I hear ya’ WWOS. But in the coming years I have to think the courts will be chipping away at that nut (pun intended), and that SOB deserves all the misery and stress coming his way. And if a prosecutor can see his way clear to bring a felony charge for defrauding the USPS, I’ll be boogie’ing across the room like it’s 1977 (or like SROD celebrating a Rafael Soriano signing).
January 15th, 2013 at 3:44 PM
coop? OHHH…you said “pound OF flesh” not “pound the flesh.” my mistake.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:44 PM
Lance was really on the right track there at the beginning.
-Marge Schott
January 15th, 2013 at 3:46 PM
What did he do that was so wrong again? You telling me every single NFL player doesn’t take HGH?
Took performance enhancing substances that are banned by USADA, WADA, the Olympics and all professional competitions. Hid his use of them for years and destroyed evidence of his using them. Impugned the character of everyone who ever leveled any allegation on him ever. And shamelessly played the “I survived cancer” card like it was a get out of jail free card.
I think that about covers it. If you’re going to argue moral relativity here, save yourself some time and eat a bullet now.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:46 PM
Hey does anyone think they can write anything about cycling?
No
No
No
Salutations EIC, perchance I wouldst embed a video, subsequently the aforementioned post would require scant literary endeavour.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:47 PM
This
January 15th, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Dan Wetzel absolutely nailed it with his Armstrong column
January 15th, 2013 at 3:49 PM
Gave a platform for Jenny McCarthy and Dr. Oz to spread their nonsense to impressionable stupid white women everywhere that have as a direct result caused thousands of children to be infected with diseases that would have been prevented had these people never been given a platform?
Wait, wait, no. That’s Oprah. The moral authority of our nation. Not Lance, my bad.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:49 PM
He was the Big Tobacco of Sports Celebrity. Hire the best attorneys and begin a legal victory parade and intimidate anybody trying to speak the the truth with a legal bill and the destruction of their careers and reputations.
Sorry asshole. Time to pay up every penny you earned fucking people over one the way to the top – plus interest.
And don’t even get me started with Mic Ultra nonsense.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:50 PM
Don’t care.
Don’t care.
Why I can’t stand him.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:52 PM
Big fan of the ad The Times bought in the Chicago papers.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:52 PM
I’d honestly of respected him more had he decided to live as a sports celebrity pariah. Now he just wants it both ways. He had the whole Dick Nixon thing going so well there too, the tweet of the 7 yellows et al.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:52 PM
He was probably lying about the cancer like Gary Fogel.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:53 PM
Just read he doesn’t even have a bike endorsement.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:53 PM
Husker, whether PEDs should be thought of so poorly is an entirely different argument. The fact is they are banned, Armstrong knew they were banned, used them anyway and then actively tried to destroy everyone who alleged that he used PEDs. You can choose to only be pissed off about the last part, but realizing the first two makes him an even bigger dick.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:55 PM
did ms621 just say lance armstrong took drugs to make his dick bigger? this black-on-black crime has GOT to stop.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:55 PM
First question is none of anyone’s business. 2nd question is easy to answer. 3rd question is easier as every good cyclist was doing it. And the P.S. at the end is hilarious. “He used OUR draconian laws against us.”
January 15th, 2013 at 3:56 PM
Yup. WWA always needs guest referees.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:56 PM
Big fan of the ad The Times bought in the Chicago papers.
OUTSTANDING.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:56 PM
did ms621 just say lance armstrong took drugs to make his dick bigger? this black-on-black crime has GOT to stop.
Jamie Foxx in Django Unchained ain’t got nothing on me.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:56 PM
ms621: I will never judge a player for doping. Ever. If you told me I could take a pill or get an injection that made me noticeably better at my job than I was before I’d do it in a heartbeat. Him bullying folks with his money via lawsuits is far more of a dick move.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:57 PM
This article explains the Livestrong isn’t what it appears to be. Doesn’t do shit for cancer research, just puts people in touch with other organizations that then help them.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:57 PM
pink floyd sucks…what, they couldn’t write their music without PED’s?
January 15th, 2013 at 3:57 PM
You’re joking, right?
Bullied, threatened and tried to destroy everyone who spoke against him. Duped millions of dollars out of people who thought they were donating to an honorable guy and his foundation. Received $280k per speaking engagement because he was such an “inspirational” American hero.
Not to mention all the illegitimate ass he probably got.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:58 PM
the elusive bastard fetish…got two parents? gross!
January 15th, 2013 at 3:59 PM
ms621: I will never judge a player for doping. Ever. If you told me I could take a pill or get an injection that made me noticeably better at my job than I was before I’d do it in a heartbeat. Him bullying folks with his money via lawsuits is far more of a dick move.
That’s fine Husker, I agree with you. But in this situation it is utterly beside the point. It’s a different argument altogether. It’s not as though Armstrong used PEDs while USADA or WADA was considering unbanning some of them.
January 15th, 2013 at 3:59 PM
How many of you rubes actually bought a Live Strong bracelet?
January 15th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
i did. so what? it was $1.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
pink floyd sucks…what, they couldn’t write their music without PED’s?
Syd Barrett was on PEDs? Are you saying mental illness is performance enhancing
January 15th, 2013 at 4:00 PM
I mean, come on. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict?!?!? If that’s not PED-fueled songwriting, I don’t know what is.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Ronny “Mothers dont let your boys grow up to be guys with an ‘y’ sound at the end of their name” Carlton loved that tweet.
Kind of hoping Lance kills himself.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:01 PM
For every poor deceived girl he slapped his ball against on the merit of his tour de france wins, he now has to bang a dude to make up for it.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:01 PM
i did. so what? it was $1.
And you got to feel good about yourself for spending $1 that probably didn’t actually go to cancer research.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:01 PM
Not really. People are going to whine and ask, “how could he cheat the sport, etc…” I agree he’s a dick. But he’s not a dick because he took PEDs. He’s a dick because he chose to try and ruin people’s lives when he was going to be exposed.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Livestrong = second mile?
January 15th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
And then the dude dumps him when his cancer comes back.
/Sheryl Crow’d
January 15th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
the first time i heard that song, i was 15 years old and it was my first time a) smoking really high quality pot and b) a bong. that high is what ive been chasing for 12 years.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
13 years. POT MATH!
January 15th, 2013 at 4:02 PM
Does anyone have a link of the Livestrong takedown from a year or two ago?
January 15th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
See #38
January 15th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
Not really. People are going to whine and ask, “how could he cheat the sport, etc…” I agree he’s a dick. But he’s not a dick because he took PEDs. He’s a dick because he chose to try and ruin people’s lives when he was going to be exposed.
The use of the PEDs is what led to his other actions which you find so despicable. My point is this: I’d actually think more of him if he took the PEDs and then never caved….if he felt like it was the right thing to do in competition, well, as you said, that’s a difficult point to disagree with. I’d probably do the same thing in his position. But using PEDs was the start of him becoming the massive dickbag that he is today. It’s integral to it all is what I’m saying, and so it’s kind of ridiculous to shove that off to the side just because you personally don’t care about it.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
south park covered this well, as they tend to do.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:03 PM
why dont i paypal you a livestrong bracelet so you can buy a clue?
January 15th, 2013 at 4:04 PM
Sure sharpened Tim McVeigh’s focus
January 15th, 2013 at 4:05 PM
The lying is why I think he’s a dick. Not him using PEDs. This isn’t hard to understand. Had he taken PEDs and then said, fuck it, I took them, when people began to question him rather than mount legal battles in hopes of bankrupting them I wouldn’t hate him. Therefore, I don’t give a fuck that he took PEDs.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:06 PM
Can get you low seven figures.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:06 PM
why dont i paypal you a livestrong bracelet so you can buy a clue?
If you’re going to use regular mail, I’ll be in the CUNT FART building on UNT’s campus.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:06 PM
How dare you! You know how many clues you could send to poor starving college athletes to make up for their ‘cost of attendance’?
/Duffy
January 15th, 2013 at 4:07 PM
fsho…ill pull up. i’ll be driving the car with the customized “
well behavedwomen rarely make history bumper sticker”.January 15th, 2013 at 4:08 PM
Does anyone have a link of the Livestrong takedown from a year or two ago?
Outside Magazine.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:09 PM
You know at the end of Raiders of the Ark when Beloque’s face melts off. That’s kinda how Lance’s face looks now.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:09 PM
/Apologies to Ben Franklin.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:09 PM
The lying is why I think he’s a dick. Not him using PEDs. This isn’t hard to understand. Had he taken PEDs and then said, fuck it, I took them, when people began to question him rather than mount legal battles in hopes of bankrupting them I wouldn’t hate him. Therefore, I don’t give a fuck that he took PEDs.
I think we agree, but I think I’d understand your point more if it involved something along the lines of athletes using PEDs should be allowed in the first place. But the point is it isn’t. I think if Lance had owned up to it in the beginning and told everyone to kiss his ass I’d respect him more now. I think the stupidest thing he could possibly do is exactly what he’s doing now: own up to it as a means to get some form of forgiveness after he ruined so many people for so long. If you decide to turn heel, turning back after a period of time makes you look ridiculous.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:09 PM
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/athletes/lance-armstrong/Its-Not-About-the-Lab-Rats.html
January 15th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Husker and ms, I think you guys disagree.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:11 PM
Nike Livestrong gear 3 for 1 sale at Dick’s Sporting Goods
January 15th, 2013 at 4:12 PM
Weed isn’t legal and I couldn’t care less if people do it. Speeding is the same way. The legality of things isn’t what I look at first and foremost.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
The unpaid intern approach, I see.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
he now has to bang a dude to make up for it.
Jake Gyllenhal is okay with this.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:13 PM
Balls are half off.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:14 PM
Weed isn’t legal and I couldn’t care less if people do it. Speeding is the same way. The legality of things isn’t what I look at first and foremost.
I’d say it’s a nice thing then that the legal system doesn’t rest solely on what individuals do and do not care what is illegal.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:15 PM
Fuck. I was jacked up after the first page. Then I saw 11 more. Sigh…
January 15th, 2013 at 4:16 PM
Until some speeding asshole gets in an accident that wouldn’t have happened at lower speeds and kills someone. Or you still don’t care?
January 15th, 2013 at 4:16 PM
+
January 15th, 2013 at 4:17 PM
a) maybe if that asshole was smoking weed, he’d be too stoned to drive fast.
b) i wouldnt care because i would probably be stoned.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:18 PM
Speed limits are way too low. Archaic. I don’t think that’s disputable
January 15th, 2013 at 4:19 PM
Well then he should be punished for it. I just don’t care when people go 80 in a 55. Going 80 in a 35 is a bit different of course.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:19 PM
pink floyd sucks
You take that back, you Thai Lady Boy!
January 15th, 2013 at 4:20 PM
Why all the hate for Oprah? She’s a chubby, black woman who basically created her own niche. It’s not like she became successful because of her looks. She worked hard. She’s never been as nasty as somone like Rush Limbaugh or Keith Olbermann. She has been influenced by the wrong people at times and said things she shouldn’t have. Who hasn’t? I don’t think anyone who’s been in contact with her has said she’s a monster.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:21 PM
Nike Livestrong gear 3 for 1 sale at Dick’s Sporting Goods
Sporting KC is going to have to take the name off their park.
Fuck. I was jacked up after the first page. Then I saw 11 more. Sigh…
The N is for Nowledge.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:22 PM
I’m still thinking about Sheryl Crow’s legs.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:23 PM
Well then he should be punished for it. I just don’t care when people go 80 in a 55. Going 80 in a 35 is a bit different of course.
I once again would like to state how relieved I am that laws are not made based upon each person’s individuals degree of caring.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:23 PM
1) Vaccinations
2) Dr Phil, Dr Oz, Rachel Ray, all her fault
3) Beloved didn’t work as a movie
January 15th, 2013 at 4:24 PM
Okay.
/drives 80 in a 55 and doesn’t give a fuck
January 15th, 2013 at 4:24 PM
fuckin’ pontiacs yo.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:26 PM
Don’t you mean stole Phil Donahue’s show?
January 15th, 2013 at 4:26 PM
Devil’s advocate time. Let’s say, hypothetically, that speed limits are set to maximize revenue in some podunk shithole VA county (Mecklenburg County, just to pull a name out of a hat), and have nothing whatsoever to do with infrastructure or citizen safety. I’m well into happy hour and have no idea where I’m going with this, other than to point out that legality often doesn’t bear any correlation to morality or the public good.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Phil Hartman as Phil Donahue >>>> Phil Donahue
January 15th, 2013 at 4:29 PM
Phil Hartman as Phil Donahue >>>> Phil Donahue >>>>>>> Oprah
January 15th, 2013 at 4:29 PM
it’s not what’s gotten into me, it’s what’s gotten into Oprah! My seed!
January 15th, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Just looked it up in an interview she had with him, her first question: “Over the years, you’ve probably heard me say that I wouldn’t have my career as I know it if it weren’t for you. Did you know you were paving the way for a black woman?”
Pretty classy on her part
January 15th, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Devil’s advocate time. Let’s say, hypothetically, that speed limits are set to maximize revenue in some podunk shithole VA county (Mecklenburg County, just to pull a name out of a hat), and have nothing whatsoever to do with infrastructure or citizen safety. I’m well into happy hour and have no idea where I’m going with this, other than to point out that legality often doesn’t bear any correlation to morality or the public good.
Valid point except that, and this is where Husker either doesn’t care or doesn’t follow what I’m saying, what you individually think about a law is completely irrelevant relative to whether it is a law or not.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:34 PM
It annoys me that Lance is trying to be patronizing to Bob Ley who is a national treasure. Prick
January 15th, 2013 at 4:35 PM
Don’t you mean stole Phil Donahue’s show?
Dinah Shore
/my grandma
January 15th, 2013 at 4:36 PM
no love for oprah because she is a self absorbed piece of elephant shit that panders to the lowest common denominator that has never done anything meaningful.
plus, she is ugly as sin.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:36 PM
This is what makes Lance such a polarizing figure IMO. He’s such a clueless, pompous ass. It’s repulsive and fascinating
January 15th, 2013 at 4:36 PM
until you get pulled over
January 15th, 2013 at 4:37 PM
I seriously think that Hartman as Clinton, due to all the people in there, might be a top 5 SNL skit. Hartman is so fucking great.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:39 PM
This.
/so f’d up how his wife killed him
January 15th, 2013 at 4:39 PM
And the subsequent anger is more based on the realization that the state has systematically established a revenue stream through ensuring inefficient travel, than the loss of money
January 15th, 2013 at 4:42 PM
Hartman was so fucking great.
Made correcter…..due to his stupid, crazy bitch wife.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:44 PM
And by proxy, Andy Dick.
/Lovitz’d
January 15th, 2013 at 4:47 PM
Fuck. I was jacked up after the first page. Then I saw 11 more. Sigh…
Gut it out; great read
January 15th, 2013 at 4:48 PM
And she looks like an over-the-Jemelle Hill
January 15th, 2013 at 4:49 PM
I didn’t think I could have a lower estimation of Sheryl Crow, and then I remember that she had Lance’s cock in her mouth and other orifices. Multiple times.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:50 PM
She’s a chubby, black woman who basically created her own niche. It’s not like she became successful because of her looks.
Yeah, it’s not like she was a beauty queen or anything. Oh, wait…
January 15th, 2013 at 4:51 PM
Basically, every small town in Louisiana is what you’re saying.
And New Orleans as well.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:57 PM
One of my favorites its the domestic abuse where it’s just Hartman (as Clinton), Jan Hooks (as Hillary) and 2 Arkansas troopers.
January 15th, 2013 at 4:57 PM
The Dick Nixons were entertaining as all get-out.
January 15th, 2013 at 5:02 PM
Here it is, Real Stories of the Arkansas Highway Patrol.
January 15th, 2013 at 5:04 PM
Fuck, wrong link.
January 15th, 2013 at 6:23 PM
/Cock AND ball