Whose Idiotic Ray Rice Comments Look Especially Awful Today?

Ray Rice is cut and suspended, but only after the world saw video of him punching out his then-fiancée. Time to take the tally: Who said particularly ghoulish and horrible things when it seemed like Rice would get off?

This roundup is a good lesson on the familiar life-cycle of domestic violence—defending the perpetrator, blaming the victim—and how that looks when evidence comes out. It's also a never-unwelcome opportunity to keep shitheels from outrunning their shitheel statements.

• Rice's lawyer, Michael Diamondstein, in a radio interview less than a week after Rice took a plea deal. Diamondstein had seen the video, and was "hypothetically" smearing Janay Rice under the apparent belief that the video would never come out.


"This is just a complete hypothetical. Let's assume for the sake of argument, rather than enter into the pretrial diversionary program that Rice entered into, we hypothetically move forward on the case. And hypothetically we litigate 100 motions and the video comes out and the video shows — hypothetically speaking now, hypothetically speaking — shows that Ray wasn't the first person that hit and Ray was getting repeatedly hit but just Ray hit harder, fired one back and hit harder. Hypothetically speaking, and he gets found not guilty. Is that result somehow better? Is it better for the public? Is it better for the Ravens? Is it better for Ray? Is it better for Janay?"


• Ray Rice himself, in his insane press conference with Janay , in which Rice chose to apologize "to everyone was affected by this situation that me and my wife were in," but not to his wife.



• This fucking tweet (deleted soon after the press conference):


Ray Rice: "I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up."

— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) May 23, 2014



• This fucking tweet (only deleted an hour or so ago):


Janay Rice says she deeply regrets the role that she played the night of the incident.

— Baltimore Ravens (@Ravens) May 23, 2014



• John Harbaugh welcoming "heck of a guy" Ray Rice back to the team.


He makes a mistake, alright. He's gonna have to pay a consequence. It's good for kids to understand that it works that way, and that's how it works. That's how it should be.

http://deadspin.com/whose-idiotic-ray-rice-comments-look-especially-awful-t-1632033541