The Creep Who Outed Michael Phelps

Stand up you brave upstanding citizen.
Stand up and tell us who you are, so we can laud you for bringing to our notice the horrible crime that Michael Phelps has committed.
Stand up and show us what a wonderful law-abiding citizen you are.
Stand up - in order that the many companies who are so ethically challenged can hire you immediately to bring honesty, openness, good character, genuine friendship (‘I’m doing this for your own good,’) to the great unwashed.
Yes please stand up so America and the world can salute you.
Stand up and explain to Michael Phelps why you are happy that Kellog’s have pulled their multi-million dollar sponsorship.

Somehow or another I don’t think you will, but I hope you are proud of yourself, because you are probably the only one in the world that is.

Michael Phelps commented that it was “obviously bad judgment.” It was bad judgment. It was bad judgment smoking pot in such an open location, bad judgment in his choice of “friends” and to be honest bad judgment in smoking pot in the first place. But to that age group, pot smoking is the equivalent of driving 12 miles over the speed limit on the highway. The only problem occurs when you get caught.

As an inspirational, motivational, humorous keynote business speaker, I am impressed by inspirational, motivational personalities even if they are not Irish keynote speakers! Phelps is only 23 years old, a kid who has worked incredibly hard to become a genuine success based on phenomenal ability. To the surprise of the media, the man is human. His DUI offence after his first great Olympics was a much more egregious and potentially dangerous offence, but he is a powerful study in having a vision, working incredibly hard to achieve it and then making it happen. We can all learn from him.

Kudos to the major sponsors who are sticking by Phelps. This is a not a knock on Kellogg’s who market aggressively to kids and probably had to drop the gold medal star.

But I’d still like for that upstanding law abiding citizen who outed Phelps to make himself known so he can get the kudos he or she deserves.