Michael Phelps DUI News Prompts Twitter Responses

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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 30. IN the hours since the news broke that Michael Phelps was charged with driving under the influence and speeding in Baltimore, the swimming community has taken to Twitter to let their opinions known. We’ve embedded many of them below.

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Duncan
Duncan
9 years ago

There is a larger lesson here than just how foolish it is to drink and drive. Mike could easily be thinking that generally he was just damaging himself.

In fact, the press is always looking for easy, simplistic ways to cut down “heroes.”

When he did the #1 100 fly swim in the world this summer it didn’t even make it into the list of the about 25 little blurbs in the web version of the local paper (azcentral.com = Arizona Republic).

His DUI stunt was the LEAD story this morning.

RealityCheck
RealityCheck
9 years ago
Reply to  Duncan

Seriously? You think the media looking to “cut down a hero” is a larger lesson than the fact that driving drunk driving nearly twice the legal speed limit is dangerous, stupid, and he it is only a matter of luck that he or more importantly someone else wasn’t killed by his reckless and stupid decision? Any cutting down of a hero here is Mike. He just be thankful that it is just for a DUI, and not something far worse. Suppose the media is also the bigger story to you in the Adrian Peterson and Ray Rice stories too.

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