I've Had Peter King In My Figurative Cross Hairs For Over A Year

My statement on the Ray Rice story: http://t.co/aTbQMTSQAh
— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) September 8, 2014

This is all you need to know.

For the uninitiated, Ray Rice is an NFL player who beat up his then girlfriend (now wife) in an elevator and then drug her out of it. The video of her dragging her out of it was released months ago and everyone was horrified. The NFL only suspended the guy for only two games and King, who is nothing more than a lap dog for the NFL, supported the decision.

Today the video comes out which shows what happened in the elevator. It is beyond shocking. The NFL released a statement this morning saying, "Hey, we didn't know about that video."  This has to be a lie. TMZ can get it but the NFL, which is a Bully With Billions, can't? Anyway, King then releases his "statement" (how pompous is that?) saying that his earlier report that the NFL had seen the elevator video was wrong but that he had relied on a trusted source.  But he just takes the NFL's word that the front office hadn't seen the video and turns on his "source" who he refuses to name?  And to further prove the guy is clueless, he has this sentence in his brief statement, "No one from the league has ever knocked down my report to me . . . . " He used the phrase, "knocked down."

The site his statement is on allows instant comments. He is getting brutalized.

(As great as Ray Rice is as a football player, I wouldn't rule out the Ravens cutting him and the NFL then shunning him. This is a PR disaster.) Edit: BOOM!

Links:
My post on Ray Rice's shocking May press conference and apology. "Sometimes in life you will get knocked down." (Along with shocking Raven tweets at the time.)
Me turning on King in 2013.

Edit: Now I know why he issued the "statement"!  He had a brain freeze earlier in the day and didn't remember what he had written.

Earlier in the day, he wrote this: "If league officials saw this [new] video before issuing the two-game ban for Rice, all the scorn that’s been heaped on them when Roger Goodell gave Rice a two-game ban will be deserved."

This is what he wrote in July: "There is one other thing I did not write or refer to, and that is the other videotape the NFL and some Ravens officials have seen, from the security camera inside the elevator at the time of the physical altercation between Rice and his fiancée. I have heard reports of what is on the video, but because I could not confirm them and because of the sensitivity of the case, I never speculated on the video in my writing, because I don’t think it is fair in an incendiary case like this one to use something I cannot confirm with more than one person."