Did NBC "over-humiliate" lyin' Ryan???

[Irish George]

hard to make that guy look sympathetic, but the network of Brian Williams managed to do so, IMO

[Ground_Meat]

hard to make that guy look sympathetic, but the network of Brian Williams managed to do so, IMO

No way. He brought every second of that upon himself.

[IronEagle]

hard to make that guy look sympathetic, but the network of Brian Williams managed to do so, IMO

My opinion is no. Many others noted his boorish (or is it bro-ish) behavior.

Besides, Lochte probably is of the mindset that any publicity is good publicity (which may be true).

[Irish George]

the guy will never get his endorsements back

and his reputation will never be fixed. It just felt to me that Lauer was over the top in letting him twist in the wind. It was painful to watch. The guy is an idiot and a jerk. Why couldn't they just expose him and move on

[IronEagle]

and his reputation will never be fixed. It just felt to me that Lauer was over the top in letting him twist in the wind. It was painful to watch. The guy is an idiot and a jerk. Why couldn't they just expose him and move on

I don't care for Matt Lauer.

The real dick move was to skip out of Brazil immediately to let the other guys have to deal with the Brazilian authorities. That is just weak.

[Irish George]

agreed

horrible teammate.

[IronEagle]

horrible teammate.

The thing I don't get is that if he had said nothing, it's most likely that nobody outside of those involved would know about the incident.

[broadstreetparade]

It wasn't Ryan who broke the story to the media. For some he needed to lie to his mom about why he was out so late.

His mom then went to Facebook to cry about how her son was robbed at gun point in rio. NBC gets ahold of this and interviews him the morning after and he just went with it.

[PackWest]

Follow the money

NBC owns Esquire network
Esquire Network broadcasts the Lochte reality show
ipso facto

[Drama Queen]

Hush money seems like extortion to me.

[Ellsworth]

Jeah!

[McCarthy12]

I still think Lochte is a disrespectful moron. And jetting the country and leaving your boys behind was terrible.

That said, if when they got caught, "police" showed up, pointed a gun at them and demanded their cash in order to let them go - maybe in Rio and Mexico that is called business as usual, but here that's called blackmail and possibly robbery. One of the other swimmers had to pay 10k to a "charity" to leave the country. His story really isn't that far from what actually happened. I guess what I'm trying to say is USA! USA! USA! USA!

[Drama Queen]

Hahaha USA! USA! USA! nm

I still think Lochte is a disrespectful moron. And jetting the country and leaving your boys behind was terrible.

That said, if when they got caught, "police" showed up, pointed a gun at them and demanded their cash in order to let them go - maybe in Rio and Mexico that is called business as usual, but here that's called blackmail and possibly robbery. One of the other swimmers had to pay 10k to a "charity" to leave the country. His story really isn't that far from what actually happened. I guess what I'm trying to say is USA! USA! USA! USA!

nm