Flag Haters (USA) score another Scalp as USA Gymnastics interim CEO Mary Bono forced to resign for covering up Nike swooshes

pointing-out-the-obvious wrote:

Of course, her association with the status quo in abusing children probably also didn't help her....

Huh? She wasn't abusing them, at best she had like a second-degree connection to it (common law firm), and only after the fact.

Also, the "status quo" was when Nassar was operating, this is after that, so your Latin phrase is inapropos.

Money Rules All wrote:

fatcat wrote:

She can protest her own golf shoes all she wants. But if you were Under Armour or Adidas, would you want to associate with an organization whose CEO doesn't know when to keep her views to herself?

So it other words, USA Gymnastics is bowing down to Nike's demands.

Great, I thought they were for the athletes, not the corporations?

Why is USAG bowing to Nikes demands? It doesn't matter if she didn't agree if a company like Playtex (a former USAG sponsor) was producing products in sweatshops in india, A CEO should not be viewing her personal opinions on twitter. it shows complete lack of understanding of building relationships with companies.

fatcat wrote:

A CEO should not be viewing her personal opinions on twitter. it shows complete lack of understanding of building relationships with companies.

Tell that to Elon Musk.

You're another Renato wrote:

fatcat wrote:

and btw...do you think ADHD drugs are performance enhancing?

Obviously if it weren't useful (individually at least), these superstar athletes wouldn't be taking them, and applying for them in bulk. It's not this is a life-threatening disease or something.

But thanks to apologists (cf. Norwegian asthma WADA experts), there's claimed as "no PED effect" on normal people, so thus it's just a "return to normal". Yeah right, this has been discussed so many times here, I can't believe anyone would bring it up.

Only by defining "performance enhancing" in a Humpty-Dumpty way can these drug users be justified.

Might as well just allow anything-goes: "I would have been a great athlete, EXCEPT I was under-sized"... Bingo, use HGH.

Concentration is paramount to an athlete, nixing it by "ADHD" concoctions reinvents the game itself.

deranged lrc logic wrote:

fatcat wrote:

How can you trust anyone who doesn't have the social skills to understand that insulting a sponsor is bad for business especially if you are the CEO?

Sheesh, USA Gymnastics is nothing but a "business" to you? So if Nassar was a money-maker, who cares what else he does?

It is a business. in some sense, nassar was a money maker to USAG. he made those girls think he was the good guy and they were too afraid to say anything because their chances at their own success were at risk and in turn US won medals and gyms were packed with little kids paying usag dues.

But the people who are choosing the people to run this business have their heads so far up their asses that they cannot see the light of day.

How can anyone think it's a good idea to hire a CEO that worked for a law firm that continue to let someone continue to sexually abuse gymnasts when they knew he was doing it. If they wanted an attorney at the helm, why chose this attorney??

fatcat wrote:

A CEO should not be viewing her personal opinions on twitter..

Yep, in Bizarro-World, CEOs cease to be people, and can't share personal opinions anymore.

It's a sign of feeble-mindedness to be unable to distinguish persons from issues, so just lump everything into a non-procrustean ill-defined malaise.

Surely she can protest on her own Golf shoes, while at the same time heading an organization according to its design?

Or is modern thinking so attached to "personality" issues that it imagines that a person's job/duty must align 100% with their self-personage?

You're another Renato wrote:

fatcat wrote:

and btw...do you think ADHD drugs are performance enhancing?

Obviously if it weren't useful (individually at least), these superstar athletes wouldn't be taking them, and applying for them in bulk. It's not this is a life-threatening disease or something.

But thanks to apologists (cf. Norwegian asthma WADA experts), there's claimed as "no PED effect" on normal people, so thus it's just a "return to normal". Yeah right, this has been discussed so many times here, I can't believe anyone would bring it up.

oh ya, the only reason biles can do what she does is because she's taking adderal. ya, that's it.

Faithfully Execute wrote:

fatcat wrote:

A CEO should not be viewing her personal opinions on twitter..

Yep, in Bizarro-World, CEOs cease to be people, and can't share personal opinions anymore.

It's a sign of feeble-mindedness to be unable to distinguish persons from issues, so just lump everything into a non-procrustean ill-defined malaise.

Surely she can protest on her own Golf shoes, while at the same time heading an organization according to its design?

Or is modern thinking so attached to "personality" issues that it imagines that a person's job/duty must align 100% with their self-personage?

It happened before twitter.

This is so at-odds with the actual facts, that I can only suppose you deliberately dense. Covering-up afterwards (hushing from public view, i.e PR) is not the same as "continu[ing]" to allow a malfeasant to act (contemporaneously). But necessary distinctions seem unwanted in your thinking.

In other words, guilt by association.... I can name many good lawyers, who by circumstance worked at the same firm as some dirty dodgers.

fat = dense wrote:

fatcat wrote:

How can anyone think it's a good idea to hire a CEO that worked for a law firm that continue to let someone continue to sexually abuse gymnasts when they knew he was doing it.

This is so at-odds with the actual facts, that I can only suppose you deliberately dense. Covering-up afterwards (hushing from public view, i.e PR) is not the same as "continu[ing]" to allow a malfeasant to act (contemporaneously). But necessary distinctions seem unwanted in your thinking.

Maybe you have to compare it to something they know about, i.e. the Clintons, to get anywhere with these sub-thinkers.

Then they'll start shifting the soils in ersatz defense of their heroes.

You're another Renato wrote:

fatcat wrote:

and btw...do you think ADHD drugs are performance enhancing?

Obviously if it weren't useful (individually at least), these superstar athletes wouldn't be taking them, and applying for them in bulk. It's not this is a life-threatening disease or something.

But thanks to apologists (cf. Norwegian asthma WADA experts), there's claimed as "no PED effect" on normal people, so thus it's just a "return to normal". Yeah right, this has been discussed so many times here, I can't believe anyone would bring it up.

The usual argument is as simple as it obvious: if it doesn't help (PED), why not just compete without it? Of course, those who went to such great lengths ("diagnosis") to be able to compete while on such drugs (while still with the veneer of "100% me" based upon drug agency interpretations) will never give up their competitive edge without a fight. What are they afraid of?

Meanwhile, non-Western athletes are in fact deprived from taking life-compelling medicines like meldonium, only to have them be removed by the anti-Russia global sports controllers.

Hani Saleem wrote:

Tru Dat

She starts her term with a cheap shot at an athlete and his sponsor. A sponsor with the deepest pockets in all sports....

His??

wtfbbq wrote:

She's the CEO of a sports organization. I agree with the decision. She shouldn't be doing that.

This isn't about flag-hating, this is about being in a management position.

Situation is totally different. Management hired Honorable Bono subsequent to her "anti-Nike" action. They could have known full well. Unfortunately they caved to Twitter pressure.

Kaepernick's kneeling happened spontaneously after they signed him (when under contract). So only he's to blame for his actions. Should have got a warning, and then the axe. But the Bono lady got dumped even w/o caution.

Hani Saleem wrote:

She starts her term with a cheap shot at an athlete and his sponsor.

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"Starts" is anachronistic.

Confused with a Goat wrote:

His??

Think maybe meaning Kaepernick's? But who cares what USA Gymnastics thinks of him.

Now a sponsor of Biles (hers) might be more important to USA Gymnastics, but obviously appeasance is not the end-all of the CEO position (or the "pre-CEO" position, according to the timeline?!)

Actual timeline:

Faegre Baker Daniels rebuked Raisman’s claim that the firm covered up abuse.

“It is a matter of public record that a FaegreBD lawyer participated in reporting Larry Nassar to the FBI in the summer of 2015 — a fact that refutes any claim of a cover up,” read a statement from the firm to TIME. “We are bound by our obligation of client confidentiality, and thus we cannot comment further at this time.”

The USA Gymnastics Board of Directors said in a statement to TIME that Bono’s work for the firm was not related to the 2015 investigation. Bono did not immediately offer comment.

“Mary Bono worked at Faegre Baker Daniels Consulting, the legislative strategies and policies branch in Washington, DC.,” the board’s statement said. “Faegre Baker Daniels is a large, global firm that has a number of divisions and areas, and Mary was not involved in FBD’s work with USA Gymnastics as counsel of record.”

Summer 2015 — This is the time USA Gymnastics said recently that it reported "athlete concerns" to law enforcement and cut ties with Nassar. The doctor disputed that account, saying he left voluntarily.

Jan. 10, 2017 — Eighteen women signed onto a civil lawsuit that names USA Gymnastics, a high-profile gymnastics club and Michigan State University, claiming the defendants failed to protect them from sexual abuse by Nassar. Since that time, more than a dozen others have joined the civil suit.

Hard to blame a law firm (which has confidentiality requirements) more than USA Gymnastics itself, and for them the civil case is still progressing. It used to be "innocent until proven guilty" in USA, but that's been dropped by social preeners recently.

And on top of that, Bono didn't even work on the case!

Might as well as blame the FBI for not arresting him sooner.

Necessary duty of care wrote:

Summer 2015 — This is the time USA Gymnastics said recently that it reported "athlete concerns" to law enforcement and cut ties with Nassar. The doctor disputed that account, saying he left voluntarily.

Jan. 10, 2017 — Eighteen women signed onto a civil lawsuit that names USA Gymnastics, a high-profile gymnastics club and Michigan State University, claiming the defendants failed to protect them from sexual abuse by Nassar. Since that time, more than a dozen others have joined the civil suit.

Hard to blame a law firm (which has confidentiality requirements) more than USA Gymnastics itself, and for them the civil case is still progressing. It used to be "innocent until proven guilty" in USA, but that's been dropped by social preeners recently.

And on top of that, Bono didn't even work on the case!

Might as well as blame the FBI for not arresting him sooner.

Innocent until proven guilty??

Hey, Super Patriot-boi, it's a civil case!

Quick definition for those who didn't learn anything in school except the pledge of allegiance:

Civil lawsuit, "A lawsuit brought to redress a private wrong such as breach of contract, encroachment, or negligence; or to enforce civil remedies such as compensation, damages, injunction. Also called civil action, civil proceedings, or civil suit. See also Tort Law."

Civil cases don't even judge "innocence". Try negligence and encroachment.

Social preeners??? You mean the humans that actually are protecting the athletes from further rape?

....For most humans, letting a creepy doctor ply his "trade" upon terrified young athletes is justification for due compensation from said doctors' enablers.

Doc goes to prison. (Criminal case, you know, the kind that requires innocence until proven guilty)

Enablers get sued. (Civil case)

Bono's law firm is fighting for the enablers in civil court.

Anyone supporting the enablers should be judged accordingly.

Guess what?? Accordingly actually happened here.

You brave, brave Patriots will have to go find another travesty to politicized.

In the meantime, us humans will continue to expose child rapists and their supporters.

SealedFate wrote:

let me get this straight wrote:

So Bono's Navy Seal brother in law died for the right of scared cops (that "feel" threatened) to be able to blow away anyone (especially black males) without any repurcussions. OK got it! Not sure the brother in law would agree with this if he was still here with us.

Nope.

He died for someone else (W., Cheney, ExxonMobil, Haliburton, & Blackwatee )

under the guise of terrorism and WMD.

Same as any war, scratch beneath the surface and you find booming business giants.

Tell us, brave bumper sticker Patriots, how is Afghanistan going??

Iraq??

Permanent war zones siphoning trillions. Forever.

But hey, the SEALS will keep sacrificing for you bumper sticker brave souls.

Oh yeah, let's bring faux patriotism to the rape of child athletes narrative and choose the flag over rape enablers.

Good call MAGAts.

She's talking about her 4th husband's brother who died in a training accident 10 years before she ever met her husband.