Michael Vick
I have to confess: I did not watch the entire CBS 60 Minutes interview with Michael Vick, because I don’t care to hear about the cruelty to animals. However, I did watch a few segments online, and what I saw was contradictory. Vick seems to be saying whatever comes to mind at the moment.
Read moreOne minute, Vick tells 60 Minutes, “The first day I walked into prison, and they slammed that door, I knew, you know, the magnitude of the decisions that I make, and the poor judgment and what I allowed to happen to the animals….”
Another time, James Brown asks (above), “Why couldn’t you understand what you were doing and what you were allowing then versus now?” Listen how contradictory Vick’s answer is. In the middle of his answer, Vick says, “You know, your mom teach you right from wrong from day one so you know, and I didn’t have the strength to move on or say, ‘This is not me. This is not what I want to do.’ You know, I continued to let it happen and you know, for certain reasons, I don’t know, or for what reasons, I don’t know.”
Does that answer make any sense? He flat out admits he knew right from wrong from day one!
Much of what Vick says, if you want my opinion, is just ramble, not his true feelings, and hence why I see the contradictions. If Vick knew right from wrong from day one, the only “magnitude” that would hit him when the prison door slammed wasn’t what he “allowed to happen to the animals”, it was that he was caught and being held accountable! It doesn’t take any talent to see this.
I also don’t think Vick feels sorry for the “animals” either, as they come as an afterthought it his sentences. And he uses the word “animal”, too, which is removed from the “dogs” he is responsible for killing.
I am sure many of you also noticed that Vick has this smile throughout. It’s downright arrogant, if you want my opinion. It feels as if Vick thinks he is getting away with it again–perhaps because the NFL is handing him another contract after he was indefinitely suspended from the NFL?
I also find it ridiculous that Vick says he doesn’t know why he continued to let it (the dog fighting) happen. Give me a break! He bankrolled the whole operation. There was obviously a handsome payback for Vick or he wouldn’t have risked the millions he made, but he obviously doesn’t want to admit THAT.
Vick just wants to skirt the issue and ramble on about rubbish. If Vick was sincere, he would admit he knew it was wrong all along, but didn’t want to stop it. He thought he could get away with it. It was profitable on some level for him. Period. But that wouldn’t go over so well, would it?