This is probably the most depressing story I've read in a long time, reflecting, as it does, the completely sanctimonious, knee-jerk reactionary society we've become under our theocratic ruler and his religious zealot minions.

Is there a medication that makes people less controlling? This country needs a big dose.

...these same pundits will rave about him and his 'iconoclastic' style. We'll see him on a cereal box and a Nike commercial!

Why don't we hear the same outcry regarding steroid use, and 13-year-old female gymnasts eating breath mints for lunch and dinner because they are so afraid of gaining weight??

I love that this puritanical witch hunt is coming from journalists--is there any profession with more of a tradition of hard core alcoholism and working while loaded?

America: when will the imperfect reality of human life finally trump our superficial puritanical desire to keep up appearances?

I am in awe of the sheer sanctimonious balls of the collective sports media.

Bode Miller is an adult. It is not his job to serve as a role model for anyone. It is not his job to meet your preconceived notions of how an elite athlete is 'supposed to act.' It is entirely his choice to take the risks he is taking, and to experience any fallout that might result from those risks. If you're so concerned or disapproving about his behavior or statements, DON'T WRITE ABOUT IT. But then that wouldn't fill your column inches or help you meet your deadline now, would it. Hypocrites.

I have to say that, in a time when an elite 16 year old figure skater's training regiment includes media relations - and produces interviews about as interesting as that of a household robot - I find Bode Miller's unbridled mouth and uncensored communication to be very refreshing.

And don't get me started on the soft focus, sob-story crap that suffices as American Olympic TV coverage.

The whole purpose of your first page was to once again scold Bode Miller. You didnt need to reprint all that nonsense, you dont fool anyone. I cant believe Ralph Nader is right, there is no discernible difference. Fuck You!

And kids DO look up to Olympic athletes. Mary Lou Retton was a really important person to me when I was a kid.

I don't think coming off as an asshole frat boy on national television is a good thing. And you can quote me on that and call me any names you like.

While some of the commentators were a little over the top, umm, they're sports commentators. Over the top is what they do. They wll be over the top if he wins, too.

Bode had a chance to introduce himself to millions of people and he chose to do it by talking about drunk driving like it's funny.

Maybe when people say he's a jerk, they are just calling a spade a spade.

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Dude, Bode musta thought he was interviewing for the X Games. Just got his message messed up.

Sports image is more imporant than the actual sports now. Any quick trip through the weepy screamy mancrush gabfest that is ESPN would tell you that. I mean what would Tony Kornheiser do if he couldn't hop up and down about how this athlete or that that one should be banned from the planet for eleventybillion years?

Do we even watch sports anymore? Does anyone care if Bode Miller is any good at his sport or will it be an endless parade of soccermoms pretending to be sportscasters debating with each other about fucked up he is at any given moment?

I can picture the lame Letterman jokes already.

The links on the Page Six story don't work.

And thanks for the heads up on Arrested Develeopment tonight. I thought it was already gone from the air. And I'm grateful to have something other than the Olympics opening to watch.

...or sports journalism and whether anyone is pro-Bode or anti-Bode or whatever. None of that is on my radar.

But, where I come from, you're a crass, boorish idiot if you brag about being a drunk, or stoned, or whatever. And anyone who would defend anyone's right to be a crass, boorish idiot... well, that pretty much speaks for itself.

Part of the fun of admiring people who can do things well used to be finding out what kind of person they were. The idea was, in part, that you could find something about them you had in common and you could feel a kinship with them. Mostly today -- and especially with athletes -- I'd just rather not know anything about them at all, thanks.

I know that previous generations were shocked at bared ankles and all that, but come on. It is possible to have fun and also live life as something other than a menace or an ass. This coarsening of society really isn't a good thing for anyone.

I'm a daily reader and I would appreciate it if the editors of The Fix didn't choose to pass on items like this.

It's bad enough being a kid, worse to be the kid of celebrities (particularly the ones specifically mentioned) and I'd like to ask the editors if they would have liked all the stupid crap they spouted when they were pre-teens served up to the scorn of the (apparently not-too) grownup world? My guess is not. I know I wouldn't.

They're kids, they didn't ask to be famous (and no, an internet blog space is not an invitation - I bet your kid has one and you wouldn't want them served up either), and for civilized people they should be off-limits.

Re: O'Reilly's comments on Colbert Report -- They're making fun of you, you ass. It's called BROAD SATIRE, which you're evidently too dim or full of pomposity to understand. And speaking of sending checks, you owe one to each and every one of your listeners whose lives are too pathetic to realize that you're a hypocritical windbag. They're the reason you can command advertising dollars to support your lifestyle; the kind you would not have in any other era.