Tiger Woods in Car Accident

And he cheated on his wife. Which means that, contrary to the pedestal that he's been falsely put upon, when it comes to his marriage, he's a par-for-the-course American male.

Like I said, if he did something that was actually worth putting in the newspaper, I'd understand. But we've got CBS leading with a story the National Enquirer broke. This isn't news -- whether he did it or not (which we now know he did) -- it's gossip. If he was charged with rape, a la Kobe, it's news. But right now, it's a private matter the guy and his family have to deal with. If they want to discuss it on Around the Horn or Extra! that's one thing, but Christ, when the CBS Evening News is leading with it, we've sunk a little far.

It's an affair. Not the first one, sure as hell not the last one. Maybe one day, we'll stop constructing this false pedestal that this guy has the perfect marriage, perfect wife, perfect life, perfect kid -- all based on nothing they've actually done. I guess I just don't see why people feel like they should be privy to every detail of a guy's personal life, just because he can hit the shit out of a golf ball and makes a lot of money. It's not our business, and he doesn't owe any of us an explanation, an apology, or anything else. Plain and simple.

 

Whitlock's latest: http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/10464562

Takes some shots at Reilly and Pierce.

 

He doesn't just take shots, he's dropping bombs. Wow. Talk about a scorched-earth policy.

And I can't believe he got away with this line:

PGA stands for Pussy Galore Association.

 

All of this got started because Tiger was involved in a "serious" car crash. That was news. It was worth investigating further. That's how this entire shit storm came to pass. All of the details we know now emerged when that car hit that tree. This wasn't initially the National Enquirer splashing some sordid story on its front page with a picture of a slutty cocktail waitress in Vegas.

Should he have to apologize? I don't know. But I think it's a story when an extraordinarily powerful man is discovered to be a bit of a fraud. Tiger put himself on a pedestal. He cultivated his own image. He knew exactly what he was doing.

 

Agreed.

 

Oh, don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to imply he was right in anything he said. I just said he was dropping bombs, ie. taking some pretty heavy shots at a lot of people.

 

Golly gee, this is just bad...

 

One reason I will read anything written by the name "Jenkins"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/30/AR2009113002283.html?hpid=news-col-blog

 

I'll put money on Whitlock playing the race card in his next "the media hates Tiger" column. Keep working your corners, Jason. Enjoy the clown shoes you're wearing.

 

Whitlock is right; Pierce's work on Tiger does smack of disdain. Then again, that's Whitlock's ouerve.

 

Well, I should have mentioned that I couldn't even be sure Whitlock really wrote that column in question.

There were no references to "bojangling," "pimp hands" or "big sexy" or anything of that odious nature.

 

Couldn't he just have played this weekend and said, 'I'm here to talk about Thousand Oaks, and Stanford.'