Leave Michael alone!

I think it's absolutely ridiculous for people to still be up in arms over recent photos of eight-time gold medalist Michael Phelps smoking out of a bong. Today Seventeen magazine editor Ann Shoket posted this blog on huffpost about Phelps' behavior, saying she just can't "let him off the hook."



Yeah I guess kids look up to him, but he's 23 and it's not like it's cocaine or something crazy, and it's not like he's flaunting this kind of behavior on the cover of Sports Illustrated. So he took a bong rip at a party. Is that any reason to condemn him the way the media has so far? He's set all kinds of world records already, what more do we want from him?

And I must say, it feels pretty good having an olympian on our side.