01-19-2014, 02:15 PM
I don't feel that Rodman is an embarrassment to my country, personally. But, I agree that he embarrassed himself and he's not qualified to position himself as an international liaison of sorts.
Rodman entered a rehab center on Wednesday.
I saw him on Celebrity Rehab a few years ago; he didn't take the treatment seriously at all and seemed pissed off that he was there - it was either rehab in Pasadena or jail. I really hope he takes it seriously this time and pulls himself together, but wouldn't bank on it.
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"Dennis Rodman came back from North Korea in pretty rough shape emotionally. The pressure that was put on him to be a combination 'super human' political figure and 'fixer' got the better of him," his agent, Darren Prince, said Sunday in a written statement. (HOTD: His own doing; he wasn't acting in any official governmental capacity - excuses.) "He is embarrassed, saddened and remorseful for the anger and hurt his words have caused."
Prince said Rodman is at a facility in New Jersey, one with a "28- or 30-day" program. He said Rodman drank heavily in North Korea during a recent tumultuous trip to the secretive state to play a basketball game with some former NBA stars against national team players from the regime.
Rodman apology: 'I had been drinking.' "His drinking escalated to a level that none of us had seen before," (his agent Prince) said Saturday.
Upon leaving North Korea, Rodman was immediately criticized for his friendship with Kim. A mass of reporters met him at the Bejing airport and Rodman broke into tears while answering questions.
"I'm not the president," he told the reporters. "I'm not an ambassador. I'm Dennis Rodman."
Some commentators have said Rodman's "basketball diplomacy" may have positive effects in North Korea by offering the people there a different view of the West, compared with its demonic portrayal in the country's tightly controlled state media.
But others, including human rights activists, say it's an embarrassing media sideshow that distracts attention from the North Korean regime's brutality. A State Department official said Rodman's visit was "marginally unhelpful" and Sen. John McCain said of the retired athlete, "I think he's an idiot."
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/us/dennis-...?hpt=hp_t2
Rodman entered a rehab center on Wednesday.
I saw him on Celebrity Rehab a few years ago; he didn't take the treatment seriously at all and seemed pissed off that he was there - it was either rehab in Pasadena or jail. I really hope he takes it seriously this time and pulls himself together, but wouldn't bank on it.
"Dennis Rodman came back from North Korea in pretty rough shape emotionally. The pressure that was put on him to be a combination 'super human' political figure and 'fixer' got the better of him," his agent, Darren Prince, said Sunday in a written statement. (HOTD: His own doing; he wasn't acting in any official governmental capacity - excuses.) "He is embarrassed, saddened and remorseful for the anger and hurt his words have caused."
Prince said Rodman is at a facility in New Jersey, one with a "28- or 30-day" program. He said Rodman drank heavily in North Korea during a recent tumultuous trip to the secretive state to play a basketball game with some former NBA stars against national team players from the regime.
Rodman apology: 'I had been drinking.' "His drinking escalated to a level that none of us had seen before," (his agent Prince) said Saturday.
Upon leaving North Korea, Rodman was immediately criticized for his friendship with Kim. A mass of reporters met him at the Bejing airport and Rodman broke into tears while answering questions.
"I'm not the president," he told the reporters. "I'm not an ambassador. I'm Dennis Rodman."
Some commentators have said Rodman's "basketball diplomacy" may have positive effects in North Korea by offering the people there a different view of the West, compared with its demonic portrayal in the country's tightly controlled state media.
But others, including human rights activists, say it's an embarrassing media sideshow that distracts attention from the North Korean regime's brutality. A State Department official said Rodman's visit was "marginally unhelpful" and Sen. John McCain said of the retired athlete, "I think he's an idiot."
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/18/us/dennis-...?hpt=hp_t2