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He's got endorsement deals with McDonald's and Kellogg's. I could see them dropping their contracts with Phelps over this.
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If this "23 year old kid" wants "the public" to finance his multi-million dollar endorsement deals, why shouldn't he say something to them? If Phelps wants to disappear into oblivion, he obviously doesn't need to say a word.
Maybe. But I have actually seen a Jack in the Box commercial endorsing mar1juana smoking and the "munchies". Well not endorsing it, but catering to it. McDonalds is better than that? McDonalds BTW has the worst commercials in existence. I loath them.
Uh, my point is that the "public" shouldnt make such a big deal about it. He's doing what 98% of people his age have done, regardless of whether its doctors, lawyers, mechanics, or even the president of the U.S.. The fact that he has to take out a second of his time and make a statement is completely moronic. Nobody should give a crap. If he was doing heroine, then yes, thats on a different level and Id expect a fuss over it.
I wasn't aware that a private company endorsing someone is considered to be financed by "the public".
Like mar1juana, McDonald's and Kellogg's products aren't the healthiest things, but the customers that they target are usually children and families. Smoking weed isn't an image that these businesses would want associated with their spokesperson and their products.
I'm sure you know that "the public" buys these products endorsed by athletes. It's the same way "the public" pays the salaries of athletes employed by private sports franchises.
O.k I have been on this board a long time and never had a spelling kvetch... But why can no one on this board spell heroin? (not just picking on Rezdawg..there was a whole other thread about it). If I was doing heroine...I would expect everyone on this board to wish me and Linda Carter as Wonder Woman every happiness!
You're jumping a bridge or two there. We don't finance crap, our attention is not money. If you're on the public payroll, then fine, but he's not. You don't pay them diddly. Don't like their behavior? Fine. Stop watching. Difference is, you have the choice.
Exactly. For some reason this is apparently "a big deal" in public America, which is a load of crap. Doing mar1juana is like drinking orange juice, everyone does it.
I guess you are completely missing my point. I'll try one more time. "The public" indirectly pays the endorsement money athletes get from companies, otherwise the companies would not give athletes the endorsement money to start with. When an athlete does something to injure their image in the public eye, they diminish their value to the companies paying them. If Phelps doesn't give a flip about endorsement money, he can stay quiet. But if he wants to keep getting paid by companies who's revenue stream comes from the public, he better do all he can to repair his image in the public eye. The select few in the world who make a living based on their image live in a different world than you and I. Does this makes it clearer? Obviously everyone has a choice, that's not even an issue. If Phelps is going to smoke, he should have had the good sense to do it more privately. Now his carefully crafted apple pie image has "gone up in smoke" literally. I'm not debating whether there are worse things he could have done or how big a deal this "should" be.
No problem I was mostly just looking for a way to get in the Linda Carter joke. And her name is actually spelled Lynda Carter...so I heard I like fail...so I failed while I was failing.
I dont smoke it, but it is pretty much as commonplace as drinking OJ. There are some that dont drink orange juice. Doesnt mean that everyone is actively smoking pot, but at one point or another, a vast majority of Americans have smoked it.
