Before I sound off on Katie Milligan let me make it perfectly clear that I do not think all American woman are as dumb as her, as the title might suggest. I know the list of dumb American woman is long, but to be fair I’m compelled to let DSOS readers know that not all American women are as dumb as Katie Milligan.
After reading today’s DSOS article most readers will agree with my assessment of Milligan, who is currently here in Australia studying to be a lawyer, a career path I hope doesn’t lead to her being an advocate for battered and abused woman across the US.
If you’re a regular reader of DSOS (if you’re not you should bookmark this page right now) you will already know how I feel about professional rugby league in The Land Down Under. For those of you who are visiting DSOS for the first time, the following paragraph is directed at you.
As I have stated in here before, pro rugby players are young (average age of league player-24) muscle heads who like to drink and fight when they are not playing “footy”, and abuse women. That type of behaviour is all too common among footy players during footy season, and as I have said before there isn’t a weekend of footy matches that doesn’t go by without a footy player either being involved in a bar fight, sexually assaulting a drunken and defenceless woman or smacking a woman around. Katie Milligan’s boyfriend Greg Bird is known for assaulting women, and the incident in August in which Milligan was glassed at an apartment with Bird aside, is currently being investigated for assaulting another woman long before he threw a glass in the general direction of Milligan, causing it to shatter against the wall after which a piece of that glass lodged just above Milligan’s left eye.
Last weekend three Brisbane Bronco players became part of an investigation where it is alleged that they sexually assaulted a woman in the washroom of a nightclub last Saturday night while celebrating a play-off game victory. The three players, while they are yet to be charged, entered the washroom with a woman where it is alleged she was all but forced to perform oral sex on them. Because alcohol was involved it is hard to get the truth out of anybody in this particularly story about rugby players, but Kate Milligan had one to tell in this weekends Daily Telegraph.
After reading the exclusive interview Milligan gave to The Daily Telegraph I would have to say that Milligan might not be “all there” so to speak, that she might have an undisclosed brain injury or perhaps even a neurological disorder that is preventing her from thinking rational or seeing the truth about her boyfriend; that he uses violence when it comes to the trust he thinks he should feel around women, especially girlfriends.
In the Daily Telegraph article Milligan tells of how Bird would never hurt her, that he loves her too much to do such a thing, and she even says she will not co-operate with police in their investigation, stating that she received legal advice not to. That legal advice came via Bird’s legal advisers by the way, and the only reason they have asked Milligan not to allow herself to be interviewed by the police is because Bird is being investigated for assaulting a woman in an unrelated incident that occurred this past January.
Yes it was quite an amusing interview Milligan gave to The Daily Telegraph, but I wouldn’t expect anything else from an “exclusive interview” that was given two pages and front page status.
Milligan, while not mentioning whether or not there was an argument between the couple (neighbours heard yelling and screaming at the time the alleged glassing has occurred) after she failed to return home with Bird after a Friday night at the pub (she apparently stayed with friends while Bird returned to the apartment alone), went out her way to tell readers how much in love she was with Bird, that he would never hurt her because he loved her too much, blah, blah, blah. Anybody reading the story would have thought the 24-year-old law student was dumb when it came to men and that she was lying to the journalist she was telling her story.
I think what happened is that Bird sat up all night drinking alone in his apartment while waiting for his girlfriend to come home and that as each hour passed he became more angry with her. I bet they exchanged a lot of text messages from the time they separated at the pub until he passed out drunk. By the time Milligan arrived at Bird’s apartment the next morning (around 730am) Bird’s jealousy and distrust of women took over and he hurled a glass in Milligan’s direction to show her how angry he was and to frighten her into submission. If it wasn’t for that act I would have nothing to say about Bird and Milligan today.
Since that morning Bird’s legal team has been busting their asses off trying to convince Milligan not to reveal the truth of that particular incident, and obviously it has worked out okay for them otherwise Milligan wouldn’t be telling the story she is telling now.
For Milligan it is all about the money, and the only reason in my opinion she is standing by her man is because she was either offered money to candy-coat her story to the media so as not to make things anymore worse than they already were for her boyfriend, and/or she is a gold-digger, though she has claimed that by the time of her arrival in Australia after meeting Bird in Las Vegas she didn’t know how famous of a footy player Bird was in Oz.
I have to laugh because I think the latter is bullshit because Milligan would have googled his name to check him out before making such a huge commitment to leave her family behind in the US for a man she barely knew to begin with. She googled his name, make no mistake about it and she knew a lot more about the man of her dreams before she even boarded a plane bound for Australia in the US. She knew he was a popular and well-known footy player with the Cronulla Sharks, and she knew about the investigation into an alleged assault of another woman that occurred in a nightclub.
She’s lying about what she says she knew and didn’t know about Bird before arriving in Australia to study law, and the only reason she is not co-operating with police in their investigation about her glassing is because if she would have to lie to investigators too.
It’s much easier for her to just lie to journalists, and get paid for it. If she was to lie to police on-the-record, and it was later discovered that she lied, she would find herself in some serious trouble and her law career would be flushed down the toilet. If she lies to the media, there’s nothing anybody can do about it, and that is exactly what she is doing in my opinion when it comes to the story she has told in The Daily Telegraph.
By the way, don’t think for one minute and despite what Milligan may say about it, that she wasn’t paid good money by The Daily Telegraph for her exclusive interview. Her boyfriend’s legal team would have ensured that she was paid top dollar for her exclusive interview.
One last thing, I don’t believe for one minute that her father supports her in her decision to back up a man who has a history, albeit a brief one (if only because it is a rare occasion he is caught), of assaulting women, and I think if it was daddy’s decision to make he would have hauled his daughter’s ass back to America after she was released from hospital. It would be interesting to here what her father has to say about Greg Bird and the incident that almost saw his daughter lose an eye, but I doubt this is much of a story in the US.
Maybe The Daily Telegraph can offer him some big bucks to tell his story to Australia, but only if he can be trusted to tell the truth unlike his daughter.
You know what they say, “the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” and I would be hardpressed to believe that daddy could tell the truth anymore than his daughter did.
The funniest thing she says in her interview is that she considers herself to be an intelligent person. Considering she’s standing by a young man with a drinking problem who is prone to abusing women whether it be verbally or physically, she obviously doesn’t have high standards when it comes to gauging her own level of intelligence.
She’s a stupid woman, and I hope for her sake Bird doesn’t lose it again on her because the next time she could lose an eye, or worse yet end up in hospital with life-threatening injuries or an a slab in the morgue.
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