CBS News is taking dog fighting seriously.
HERE -- is the first CBS News interview of Vick. The interviewer is James Brown, their NFL Today anchor.
Vick says he has reflected on his actions, missed the game and is ready to start playing again. The interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this --
-- Sunday, Aug. 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Rollin' dawgs -- that's what dog fighting was called when I was a kid in the rural South. We had pits. Lots of people had them. A few women came to dog fights, screamed their heads off worse than the men.
A dog fight is about what you would have seen at the Roman Colosseum.
The sand of the Colosseum is the sand of the dog pit.
Bottom line: We don't do that with people any more, so we should probably stop doing it with dogs. Between rabies vaccine and shotguns, there's no need for super-tough dogs. MTBF:::
Here's text from an except that aired on Katie Couric's show:
JAMES BROWN: And the operation, Michael, that you pleaded guilty to bankrolling, to being a part of, engaged in barbarous treatment of the animals - beating them, shooting them, electrocuting them, drowning them - horrific things, Michael - what about the dogs? What about the dogs?
MICHAEL VICK: It's wrong, man...I feel, you know, some tremendous hurt behind what happened. And, you know, I should of took the initiative to stop it all...I didn't - I didn't step up. I wasn't a leader.
BROWN: So for the cynics who will say, "You know what? I don't know. Michael Vick might be more concerned about the fact that his career was hurt than dogs were hurt."
VICK: I mean, football don't even matter.
Abu Ghraib for dogs.
We let Cheney & Minions do worse to one helluva lot more humans. Grab up 50,000 (minimum) off the street and torture thousands of them in a desperate/well_financed effort to find WMD's.
I don't see Cheney doing time.