It's not too often that we get to watch the powerful squirm. The powerful operate out of the limelight. Not in elevators. Not where there are cameras. And certainly, not where they are held to account by the rest of us.
Doesn't this whole Ray Rice/Roger Goodell, NFL thing remind you of Watergate? The months of being able to sweep it aside. The slow moving investigation? Then finally, the smoking gun! In Watergate it was the tapes. This time it is the tape.
The reaction is typical of the response that the powerful mount. An "independent" investigation. (The ex-FBI guy hired to conduct the investigation is the NFL's lawyer.) Tsk. Tsk. Now, every time there's a question about the scandal, the powerful can say: "It's under investigation."
I wonder if Roger Goodell, or any of the owners will eventually get on their helecopter and fly off to their affluent life. In the meantime, I can't help but enjoy the moment.
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