{"id":5331,"date":"2016-08-21T04:22:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/21\/al-roker-speaks-for-everyone-fed-up-with-ryan-lochte-apologists\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T04:22:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:22:04","slug":"al-roker-speaks-for-everyone-fed-up-with-ryan-lochte-apologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/21\/al-roker-speaks-for-everyone-fed-up-with-ryan-lochte-apologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Al Roker speaks for everyone fed up with Ryan Lochte apologists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ryan Lochte is just a 32-year-old kid who embellished the truth a little bit to avoid trouble while having some harmless fun abroad at the Olympics<\/a>. Actually, in a sense, he<\/em> is the real victim here and all lives … \u00a0<\/p>\n

Hard stop. Nope \u2014 we already told you why Lochte’s lie matters<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Olympics star Gabby Douglas is not defined by Rio’s social media drama<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Still, some commentators and pundits have rationalized and excused Lochte’s shameful behavior over the past several days. To counter those Lochte apologists, we present none other than Al Roker, America’s favorite weatherman.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Roker fully went into fed-up-father mode as commentator Billy Bush (yes, of the <\/em>Bush family) sputtered to diminish Lochte’s lie on the Today<\/em> show Friday morning. Roker’s stand gained new life online Saturday morning after Twitter user Alexander Hardy added some apropos sound effects. (Pay special attention to the drink-stirring effect around the 40-second mark.) Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ryan Lochte is just a 32-year-old kid who embellished the truth a little bit to avoid trouble while having some harmless fun abroad at the Olympics. Actually, in a sense, he is the real victim here and all lives … … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[739,1043,3980,740],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-entertainment","tag-olympics","tag-rio-olympics","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}