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The Spectacle Blog
Clearly, the voice mails and text messages tell the tale: Tiger catted around. And his statement today pretty much confirms it. Okay, fine. Enough already. He is right about this: “No matter how intense curiosity about public figures can be, there is an important and deep principle at stake which is the right to some simple, human measure of privacy. I realize there are some who don’t share my view on that. But for me, the virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one’s own family. Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions.” He’s a golfer, fergoshsakes. He’s not a politician preaching family values. Even celebrity athletes have a right to privacy.
What he did with other women is abhorrent. Okay. What he did to the fire hyrant will earn him, and SHOULD earn him, a citation and a fine. Good. After that, though, public prying is no more than prurience.
I’ve never been a big Tiger fan. I admire him for some of his charitable work and for his support of military personnel. And obviously I think he is a wondrous athlete, and one who in the US Open in 2008 showed incredible, and admirable, grit. But he’s not warm, and I don’t like his F-bombs, and he generally leaves me cold. I neither like him nor dislike him. I almost never root for him, because there are others I like better. All of which is relevant only so readers can understand that my judgments above about his privacy are not ones biased by being a fan of Tiger. It’s just common decency to say that where the public issue of reckless driving stops — and unless the integrity of the game of golf is involved — then a zone of privacy really should begin. Remember that his privacy is also that of his apparently innocent wife and children. Tiger acting like a skank doesn’t mean THEY should be be forced to lose their privacy. Papparazzi (sp?) who invade such privacy are skankier even than Tiger is. Enough is enough.
Margie| 12.2.09 @ 11:25AM
"Leave him alone, and he'll come home, wagging his tail behind him."
Alan Brooks| 12.2.09 @ 4:29PM
High Skool sex.
Margie| 12.3.09 @ 10:54PM
Excuse me?
Oldefarte| 12.2.09 @ 11:38AM
True, but the TRUTH needs to be published when a PUBLIC person is involved. The [sports] MSM has historically put him onto a pedistal due to his being a minority, just as it has/does with McNabb, Obama, Oprah,etc. It's the same old story of HEY HE/SHE IS GREAT BECAUSE SIMPLY/ONLY BECAUSE THEY'RE A MINORITY AND DESERVE SPECIAL TREATMENT. He's a great golfer [maybe the best to ever play the game] but when he/they are described as able to WALK ON WATER, it becomes a bit too much. Limbaugh was fired from MNF over declaring this fact about the MSM and McNabb; and they've elevated Obama to God-like status similarly, all due to skin color/minority status. I say let the TRUTH BE TOLD, no matter how damaging to his innocent family members!!!!!!!!!!!
Margie| 12.2.09 @ 1:43PM
He sounded so Clintonesque in his statement. "I've let my family down." Ya think? Someone on a radio show today said "Let me translate that from Clinton to English."
~bottom line: If you're a public figure be ready to accept public scorn when you "screw up."
That said, I truly hope he repents of the adultery and is able to save his Marriage.
Tim| 12.2.09 @ 11:39AM
Being a celebrity means being exposed to this sort of thing. "People love it when you lose..."
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ncatty| 12.2.09 @ 11:51AM
His unfaithfulness is too bad but as others have mentioned he is not famous because he is a moral exemplar. The larger problem is the allegation of dependence on pain-killers. It could explain some of the putting problems.
DG in GA| 12.2.09 @ 11:51AM
Since the crux of this story has nothing to do with golf, I think the media should leave Tiger alone. I don't think he's hiding from the police, I think he's just hiding from the media. If this could be handled quietly and discreetly, I think he would have already handled it.
That said, now that this story has gone international and been blown completely out of proportion, Tiger should probably go in front of the press, make a statement, do his "mea culpa" and put this all behind him. As is often the case, the cover-up is worse than the offense - even if he only offended against his wife and children.
Cat| 12.2.09 @ 11:52AM
I believe this is another one of those issues that completely drags people off into the bushes and takes their eyes off a much bigger picture. People are people and they all do something they shouldn't, and if it were brought into the light, would not be pretty. Tiger is already aware that his fans know what's going on and that he has been involved intimately with people that he shouldn't have been. So what? What is accomplished by dragging his family through the mud too. Let's put the light back on those things that really will affect OUR families. A war, a disastrous healthcare bill and run away government spending. I agree, those things are not nearly as entertaining or engaging to discuss-yet directly impact me.
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Eric Damon| 12.2.09 @ 12:26PM
OMG!!!! A professional athlete got caught catting around on his wife...stop the freaking presses!
Now that the police have issued their citation for killing a fire hydrant, and after fanning speculation about possible drug use and domestic violence, can we all move along? Whether Tiger and Elin work this out has to be between them and has absolutely nothing to do with the public. It's bad that he seems to have cheated on his wife, but we need to step back and let the Woods family handle this matter in private.
Oh yeah, for Oldfarte: Tiger Woods is not on a pedestal because he's black, the sports media put him on that pedestal because he is that damned good! Check the record my friend, there may never have been a golfer as dominant as Tiger Woods, and if he stays healthy he'll probably become the all time leader in Major wins. When you have as many Majors as Tiger at such a relatively young age, the attention is going to come your way.
Deborah D| 12.2.09 @ 1:29PM
"Tiger Woods is not on a pedestal because he's black, the sports media put him on that pedestal because he is that damned good!"
Amen! He is that damned good. I admire his fortitude. Apparently, he's screwed up his personal life. I, for one, hope he can patch that up and learn a hard lesson from this episode. I look forward to seeing him play again soon.
Oldefarte| 12.3.09 @ 11:50AM
Woods was programmed from birth by his daddy[Earl] to be '....that damned good' at HITTING BALLS WITH A STICK. Sadly, Earl didn't also instill in little Tiger a moralistic sence of right and wrong; and his wife and children will now have to pay the price of public humiliation for his immorality and unfaithfulness. Hopefully, he'll continue to be 'that damned good', since there is a better than average possibility that his wife will now use the legal leverage of their two YOUNG children to literally take him to the financial cleaners [and maybe shank him into the ruff as well]. All of you adoring fans with a TINGLE RUNNING UP OR DOWN YOUR LEG obviously have something in common with your golfer-idol; and you may wish to offer him a spare bedroom for his immediate futuristic usage!!!!!
Pete2| 12.2.09 @ 12:50PM
Tiger Woods has played around, Tiger Woods got caught. Tiger Woods had an accident. Tiger Wood's wife did a number on him with a golf club ( did she make par?). Tiger Woods is going to pay a fine for his bad driving and Tiger Woods is going to pay for his bad judgement, wife will make sure of that. End of story..btw, Obama spoke last night about the war in Afghanistan...
Neera Goitein| 12.2.09 @ 1:18PM
I agree!
And the only way the publicity industry will get the message and give celebrities a measure of privacy is if the celebrities refuse to say anything.
kingsmill| 12.2.09 @ 1:37PM
Ditto to QH's sentiments. I've never warmed to the guy either.
However, would the same treatment be accorded Tiger if he was a foaming at the mouth liberal, who drooled over BHO? Methinks not.
Oldefarte| 12.5.09 @ 1:39PM
Well OJ turned LIBERAL when he got his you-know-what caught in a legal crack, didn't he????
R. Dittmar| 12.2.09 @ 1:37PM
Here's my suggestion for Tiger. If his privacy is so important to him then perhaps he should stop hawking his mug out to shill for any corporation that comes along with deep enough pockets. Don't get me wrong here. He's entitled to every dime he can rook out of companies that are too star-struck to be properly concerned with shareholder value. It still a little bit rich, though, for him to be moping around about his privacy when he makes his living through being the second most over-exposed man on the planet.
Pete| 12.2.09 @ 1:49PM
In a vacuum, I would say leave him alone. But in this day and age, he should be subjected to the same scrutiny that every other celebrity is subjected to. And I like him as an athlete - even find myself rooting for him sometimes. Ben Roethlisberger has had his name dragged through the mud and that was for consensual sex and he isn't even married. Tiger should get no special treatment here...though I believe he would if he were an outspoken Osama defender.
iamse7en| 12.3.09 @ 12:37AM
But there is a market for this information. Of course they're not going to leave him alone. As long as they don't infringe on his personal property rights, the press has the right to camp out near his house and bug the hell out of him.
Comes with the territory. Long live the free market.
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Richard Baker| 12.4.09 @ 7:26PM
I doubt that LTC Wood, his father, taught him THESE lessons. Tiger destroyed himself by his lonesome.
Oldefarte| 12.5.09 @ 1:42PM
If LTC or Earl had taught him anything BUT how to hit his balls with a stick, Tiger would NOT be in the trouble he now finds himself!!!!
Stacey Brewer | 12.14.09 @ 11:01PM
I think that Tiger Woods did admit to having the affairs but he brought a lot to the sport of golf for the minorities. Golf has been largely a sport to where it is mainly played by whites and other non-minorities but Tiger Woods proved that it can be played sucessfully by minorities. Tiger Woods is human like us all and has faults but for each action there are consequences to that action whether it is good or bad. I think the media pursued the story about the infidelity due to the fact that all of the women that he had affairs with where white women. Tiger Woods never claimed to be black but his father is black but I think Tiger Woods wanted to live in the white world and be accepted by whites so golf was a way of getting in the exclusive country clubs, events, and other social circles of whites. I have nothing against the interracial relationship that Tiger Woods was in due to the fact that I have been in many interracial relationships myself. So if Tiger Woods had a black wife then there would still be the news media stigma associated with it but not nearly as bad as if his wife was white. The media tends to focus on the negative stigma with many interracial relationships while downplaying the positive ones. While I don't agree with Tiger Woods actions where right but when you have a rich and famous man like him than you give up a measure of your positive image of being a family man. That is why Tiger Woods lost many celebrity endorsements because of the scandal. As a Christian we are to forgive others and that means everyone including Tiger Woods, we are not perfect people and we all sin but that is why Jesus came to die for all of our sins. "Those who are without sin let them be first to cast the stone!" as Jesus said in the Bible. So I think that Tiger Woods as flawed as he is did a lot for the sport of golf and it even mentions that King David ( a man after God's own heart) committed adultery with Bethsheba and God forgave him as David asked for forgiveness and repented of this sin. So in closing that we as humans should look at ourselves before we judge Tiger Woods because we are all going to be judged by God when we die and at the end of the world.
Oldefarte| 12.15.09 @ 12:17PM
Liberals such as Stacey are constantly MAKING EXCUSES for minorities that are, in one form or fashion, CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN [or possibly it's the MANDINGO and/or TINGLE DOWN THE LEG syndromes, who knows or cares]. That the MSM's/public's extreme attention is due solely to Wood's marrying/fornicating with white women is ludicrous and imbicilic. No doubt their interest in the Michael Vick dog fighting scandal was likewise due to his association with WHITE WOMEN, right? It's always about RACISM with these liberal morons, and they constantly 'STUPIDLY' assign this one-word argument to every issue involving minorities. In this case, honey, it's simply about his being programmed by Daddy Earl since [Tiger's birth] to hit [play with] golf balls, and obviously to the exclusion of any/most moralistic gidelines of life. Furthermore, Woods and his golf handlers promoted/sold himself as this bi-racial FAMILY MAN of distinct/impecible moral character in his public personae and business advertisements, which turned out to be FALSE/UNTRUE. Instead of weeping/crying for 'Tiger' and his current personal problems ['let he who is whithout sin cast the first stone']; why don't you liberals re-direct your compassion and regrets towards the true victims of this tragedy----his [yes WHITE] wife and two small children, who will now be forced to bear the brunt of his animalistic indiscretions??????????
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kala | 3.16.10 @ 12:52PM
All I care about, is whether reading, and thinking about that which has been read, happens. If more is the result, then ‘yay’. From what I’ve heard about the use of their print collection, they pretty much had nothin’ to lose.
nicky | 3.16.10 @ 12:53PM
What happens when the battery dies or the power goes off?? That’s the good thing about paper copies yo can read them no matter what is going on.
luwinski | 3.16.10 @ 12:53PM
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sinkayu | 3.16.10 @ 12:57PM
All I care about, is whether reading, and thinking about that which has been read, happens. If more is the result, then ‘yay’. From what I’ve heard about the use of their collection, they pretty much had nothin’ to lose.
kala | 4.17.10 @ 2:23AM
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Mobile Glass Repair Service | 10.26.10 @ 5:05AM
If you have noticed, a lot of the older tour vets just keep their mouths shut and keep grinding. They know by now that if you really want to beat Tiger you have to wait for your opportunity like Vijay did in 04. That's more the way a gentleman might act.
Mobile Glass Repair Service | 10.26.10 @ 5:06AM
I know he's been around for a little bit but the only reason anyone does it, is in case Tiger has an off-day one of the times somebody calls him out, it will be all over the sports world as "the man who can tame the Tiger." Everyone wants to take shots at the man on top.
tono | 11.23.10 @ 9:49AM
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