there is a contest with Vick for the same reason Bobek kept coming up before: smoke and mirrors to throw people off track and make lame excuses for the evil deeds of one Tonya Maxine Harding because.. get this.. she’s not the only bad person in the world who did bad things so let’s just give her cash and celebrity because you know, it’s not like she shot Versace or something.
Sorry, I see no contest. And sorry again, because I don't see Tonya as a bad person. At worst, she was a very misguided and emotionally troubled young woman.
In any case, she's taken her punishment, which was a life sentence.
And as I keep saying, it's not her fault that she's being given cash and celebrity. Not her fault that someone wanted to make a movie about her. Not her fault that she's been invited to DWTS.
If you want to point your figure at people, point it at the producers of the movie and the producers of DWTS, who arguably aimed/aim to exploit Tonya Harding for their own fame and fortune.
I hope that DWTS does not go terribly wrong for Tonya in terms of bad publicity and unleashing a torrent of hate for her among the public. For the sake of her son.
It’s very clear. People can wax poetically about animal torture all they want, or drug dealing but it will always be apples and oranges.
I certainly was not 'waxing poetically' about animal torture. Rather the opposite. Animals have emotional lives and suffer and feel pain no less than humans do. So what Vick did to many animals is definitely apples to the oranges of what those involved did to Nancy.
Nancy was hurt in one assault and received medical care immediately. Vick's animals were repeatedly subjected to pain unless/until they died in the ring. They suffered and died without care or love - excepting those who were rescued (IIRC, some were rescued?).