Basketball bad boy Dennis Rodman is use to playing the part of the villain on the court, but he isn’t handling the role so well off the court. The would-be diplomat was surrounded by a press corps so hostile toward him and his recent trip to North Korea to organize a birthday ball game for supreme leader Kim Jong Un, that the unusually indignant athlete apologized, before erupting into tears.
While, up until this point, Dennis Rodman has been considered too ill-tempered and immature to take seriously, all of a sudden, the one-time bride is having to defend North Korea’s inhumane treatment of it citizens.
There are few that could doubt that Rodman sees himself as a force for change and good. In numerous statements he has made completely ridiculous statements that he will be a conduit for genuine change between the U.S. and D.P.R.K (via USA Today):
"Just think, it's up to Dennis Rodman to break ground with North Korea. I'm the only one in the world who will go talk to this guy and try and find some common ground with these people. I'm hoping that gap between America and North Korea can close. Those guys love a lot about America. They love it. That's why I go over there.”
Though the media acknowledges that it is simply preposterous for someone like Rodman, who has never been respected by anyone, in anyway off of a basketball court, to somehow gain enough respect in either nation to affect change, he is treated, as though he is now, somehow, responsible for 50 years of North Korea’s bad behavior.
The press’ literal cornering of the child-like Rodman, until he breaks down and apologizes for whatever they decided he has done, is tantamount to forcing a kid to live outside until he rebuilds his room that was lost in a in electrical fire.
He didn’t build it. He didn’t burn it, but he went there once, so it’s his problem.
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