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erpowers

(9,350 posts)
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 01:40 PM Dec 2015

Al Jazeera Responds to Peyton Manning and Guyer Clinic Denials

Last edited Tue Dec 29, 2015, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)



The video show Deborah Davies, an investigative reporter from Al Jazeera, who was also part of the documentary The Dark Side and serves as the narrator of the documentary, calling the Guyer Clinic to confirm the dates of employment of Charles Sly, the man who claimed the clinic shipped Human Growth Hormone (HGH) to Peyton Manning under his wife's name. After the allegations about Peyton Manning came out the Guyer Clinic claimed Charles Sly was not employed at the clinic in 2011. Davies also claims that although Peyton Manning has denied using HGH; no one has denied that Ashley Manning received HGH.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/peyton-manning-human-growth-hormone_567f16e4e4b0b958f6599440

The above link is to a story about the documentary The Dark Side. The link also has the documentary and a HuffPost Live interview with Deborah Davies in which she discusses the documentary.

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Al Jazeera Responds to Peyton Manning and Guyer Clinic Denials (Original Post) erpowers Dec 2015 OP
I'm blocked at work...does it show them confirming the dates of employment? joeybee12 Dec 2015 #1
Yes erpowers Dec 2015 #2
This is what Ari and Payless are hoping for... joeybee12 Dec 2015 #3
Come On, Joey! ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #4
Go to nbc.com joeybee12 Dec 2015 #5
Not buying it RockaFowler Dec 2015 #6
They also said hundreds of athletes... joeybee12 Dec 2015 #8
Thing is, he isn't denying that his wife got the HGH during the time period reported joeybee12 Dec 2015 #12
NBC? The Times? ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #7
SportsCenter always started each show with something about Brady joeybee12 Dec 2015 #9
RockaFowler Already Disproved That ProfessorGAC Dec 2015 #11
And now the reporter is back pedaling mythology Dec 2015 #10
Here's a discrepancy: In the film Sly claims to have been 'working with' Kingofalldems Dec 2015 #13
It is so funny to see joeybee's frothingly insanity comes out again as Peyton Place madinmaryland Dec 2015 #14
Frothingly? El Supremo Dec 2015 #15
No. Santorum is "frothy", not frothingly. madinmaryland Dec 2015 #16
 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
1. I'm blocked at work...does it show them confirming the dates of employment?
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 02:20 PM
Dec 2015

If so, then when the guy recanted and told ESPN he wasn't employed during 2011, he was lying during his recanting.

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
2. Yes
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 05:28 PM
Dec 2015

The video shows Deborah Davies talking to a person at the Guyer Clinic. Davies asks the person if Charles Sly had ever worked at the clinic. When the person says yes, Davies asks if the person could give the dates when Sly was at the clinic. The person briefly left to check the dates and then returned and stated that he had worked at the clinic in 2011.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
3. This is what Ari and Payless are hoping for...
Tue Dec 29, 2015, 05:56 PM
Dec 2015

Put more mis-information out there so that people will shake their heads and say, who should we believe? Ari did it to cover war crimes, so hiding HGH use should be a piece of cake...notice how there's not much coverage of this story...they're working to suppress also...

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)
4. Come On, Joey!
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:12 AM
Dec 2015

Suppressing the story? They included the Anderson interview with Manning in the middle of the countdown shows on both ESPN and NFL Network. Both around an hour before game time.

Two major networks, one of them international in scope, showing the complete interview an hour before kick-off on a Sunday morning is suppressing?

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
5. Go to nbc.com
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 11:43 AM
Dec 2015

All they have is a story about whether Payless has a case if he sues; try to find something on the NY Times...compare this to Ray Rice, Framegate, any other controversy where the coverage was non-stop...it's not even close...Payless will win the PR battle, but he will lose the war because eventually it will seep in that he did it...like Clarenece Thomas...full out assault on Anita Hill, it worked and we're stuck with him, but a few months later and even today, the vast majority of people know he did it according to any poll.

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
6. Not buying it
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 12:58 PM
Dec 2015

One of the big stories today was about HGH on the Today Show this morning.
Huffington Post wrote stories about it.
Washington Post is writing stories today.
GMA did a story on Peyton this morning

It's a big story because now people are caught in a few lies (namely the Guyer place).

I think this story will get worse for Peyton before it gets better.

The thing that gets me is that Peyton was never really implicated in HGH in the video, but boy was Clay Matthews and Ryan Howard. Not much of a stink is going on right now about them - just Peyton!!

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
8. They also said hundreds of athletes...
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 02:49 PM
Dec 2015

Love to know who those others were...I hope someone investigates this firm...I fear they won't because it will taint Payless.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
12. Thing is, he isn't denying that his wife got the HGH during the time period reported
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 04:15 PM
Dec 2015

Which is when he was recovering from surgery and people were wondering if he'd ever play again. Their silence on not explaining why she needed it pretty much tells me he's guilty, and probably the focus is on him because people are reading between the lines...and rightly so.

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)
7. NBC? The Times?
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 12:59 PM
Dec 2015

This is strictly a sports story. I think you're looking in the wrong places. If ESPN runs the entire interview with Josina Anderson during the pregame show late on a Sunday morning, when millions of football fans are watching, it's not a cover up.

 

joeybee12

(56,177 posts)
9. SportsCenter always started each show with something about Brady
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 02:50 PM
Dec 2015

During Framegate...not seeing that level of coverage...and I included NBC and The Times because they went all out about Framegate as did CNN...seeing nothing there...Ari has been able to get a lot of outlets to not cover this.

ProfessorGAC

(65,159 posts)
11. RockaFowler Already Disproved That
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 03:45 PM
Dec 2015

You used NBC, he said it was on the Today show. Same network. Look, i got tired of hearing about the stupid footballs with 0.2psig too little air, too.

Instead of "inflategate" they should have called it "airgate", then i could have changed it to "errorgate".

But, i think you're around the bend on this one.

 

mythology

(9,527 posts)
10. And now the reporter is back pedaling
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 02:52 PM
Dec 2015

She's claiming that her reporting was only that Ashley Manning was getting HGH and not implying that it was for Peyton Manning. Because that's plausible to anybody.


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/12/29/al-jazeera-reporter-stresses-that-no-allegation-is-being-made-against-peyton-manning/

If he cheated, he should be suspended and his post 2011 records expunged. But so far there isn't enough evidence with the source recanting and the reporter back pedaling.

That said all American sports leagues have pathetically low punishments for cheating. Four games for doping is useless. Bans should be a minimum of two years, and that should include things like Atlanta piping in noise and Brady having footballs tampered with.

Kingofalldems

(38,469 posts)
13. Here's a discrepancy: In the film Sly claims to have been 'working with'
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 04:23 PM
Dec 2015

Ryan Zimmerman for six years. That sends it back to 2009. He was definitely not working with Guyer at that time.

madinmaryland

(64,933 posts)
14. It is so funny to see joeybee's frothingly insanity comes out again as Peyton Place
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 10:53 PM
Dec 2015

gets sucked into the Barroid!! Shall we ask if Barroid has deflated balls. Oh never mind, that is the quarterback for the Cheatriots!!


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