As lousy as both those books will be I know Armstrong’s will be a bestseller. Armstrong will hire the same sycophantic writers he has before that will write how he wasn’t a bully, but showed “defiance.” This is one zebra which won’t change its stripes.

That’s the sad thing. After a couple of years this will have died down and Armstrong will re-enter the world with his new book and people will start to forgive him. If he shows real contrition and pulls out his checkbook to right all his wrongs then I’m all for forgiveness, but if history has shown us anything, that ain’t going to happen.

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