Okay, Andrea Joyce asked Johnny Weir what happened in his performance. He told her what happened. But, Scott Hamilton, the Canadian Pairs people and Mary Carillo all said he was 'making excuses'. What??!!?? If they didn't want to hear what Johnny had to say, they never should have asked him. And they didn't even air the part of his interview with Andrea Joyce where he said he didn't feel his program was worthy of a medal because the elements weren't there. The USA channel people made him seem like he was whining and making excuses when he was just answering Andrea's question. No wonder he is the man he is, with the media manipulating and twisting everything he does and says to fit some pre-packaged mold they want to sell to the public.
One more thought - That Evan guy is allowed to have the 'excuse' of the stomach flu, but apparently nothing is allowed for Johnny Weir. The USA show people just love Evan, oh the poor guy he's so sick. I like Evan and his program is pretty good. But the treatment by the media of him versus Weir is very blatantly biased. And it's only because the story of Evan and his stomach flu and good free skate is one of those marketing 'hero' type stories that they do tv movies of the week about.
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