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The Spectacle Blog
I hear a fairly reliable rumor about where Tiger Woods has been recuperating, but not to the level of confirmation that it meets journalistic standards to publish it. Oh, what a dilemma, because I would LOVE to get credit for the scoop. It’s a really interesting story….
Oh, well.
Anyway, other than one quick post when the story first broke, I have tried to avoid the story of Tiger and his mistresses, and I believe that Jack Nicklaus had the best response of all: “None of my business.”
But when I heard the above-mentioned reliable rumor, something started my brain working against its will, and somehow I started channeling William Blake’s ghost. Or maybe it was a bad impostor. Anyway, here is what resulted:
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
in the bedrooms of the night:
What immoral face or bust
could shame thee, make thine image dust?
….
Okay, that was bad. Happy New Year everybody.
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Twitter Trackbacks for The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Tiger update [spectator links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Margie| 1.1.10 @ 9:37PM
Actually,
I thought that was pretty good.
Paul| 1.1.10 @ 9:39PM
Dear Quin,
Presumably your scoop is different from the already discredited account of his having flown to Arizona to have surgery to repair his broken cheekbone and loose teeth after having been smashed in the face by his wife with the business end of a 9-iron? Or the yet-to-be-denied sex-addict rehab remor?
Interloper| 1.2.10 @ 3:38AM
When it comes to poetry, you are even more of a talentless hack than with prose.
Interloper| 1.2.10 @ 3:38AM
When it comes to poetry, you are even more of a talentless hack than with prose.
SoCon| 1.2.10 @ 3:36PM
Oh, no, not you again; the nasty bigot/anti-Semite returns.
I thought you were gone, dead and buried. Ugh!
Margie| 1.3.10 @ 5:28PM
Let's hear some of your poetry then, Interloper. We'll be standing by.
TennesseeVolunteer| 1.2.10 @ 7:58AM
Quin, quin...
That was mighty thin.
Don't forget The One
amongst Tiger's din.
We have many mile to go
before we sleep.
No mo about Tiger's ho's
without an Obama shout out or peep!
Quin, Happy New Year to you and all of the AS posters. My poem is worse than yours!
Pete2| 1.2.10 @ 10:37AM
Actually, with terrorism, deficits, governmental incompetence, and Obama's left wing nominees. I could care less about Tiger Woods. He's really a non issue considering what's really important.
Pat House| 1.3.10 @ 1:10PM
I am a 35 year Republican never voted democrat.George Bush with his deregulation,love of defense contractors,two wars that can't be won,and spending money like a drunken sailor is worse so far than this president.I voted for president Bush twice and not for this president.As for Dick C.,he needs to shut the hell up.He had seven years to built national security and what we have is a result of his incompetence.He ought to be in jail!!!!!!!!!We conservatives need to open our eyes to how we have been used by the last administration.I don't expect much from the new guy but George and Dick ought to be in jail!!!!!!
Daisy| 1.3.10 @ 7:00PM
So, the crotch bomber is Bush/Cheney's fault? If that's true, then why didn't this attack occur on Bush's watch?
Seems to me the Bush/Cheney 'system' is fine, it's the fascist liberal fools in charge of it now who are the problem.
Epic fail, democrats!
Roy| 1.4.10 @ 12:05AM
"35 year Republican" - and your problem with Bush is leftist cliches like "deregulation" and "love of defense contractors"?
I smell yet another leftist liar.
Oldefarte| 1.2.10 @ 11:46AM
I was recently [by the moniker, 'Paul'] slandered as a RACIST,etc, due to my previous posting concerning the great BLACK golfer [as opposed to the great BLACK president]. Of course, 'Paul' and his fellow asinine liberals constantly berate anyone who does not have the preverbial 'tingle up or down the leg' moment when discussing any/all BLACK athletes, politicians,etc. To self characterize myself, I disfavor racism [or disenfranchisement, discrimination, gentrification, etc]; but I do think it is acting 'STUPIDLY' to brand/label [without proof/documentation of the actual offense]; or to do so in contradiction of the truthful facts of the situation. In Wood's [or Vick's or OJ's,etc], the facts speak for themselves, and these individuals ARE GUILTY of their accussed offenses [and to deny same due to their BLACKNESS is again, acting 'STUPIDLY']. I also believe that once someone describes themselves in a certain manner and then is proven to be a LIAR/PROVARICATOR, IMPOSTER,etc; then it is right, just, allowable to point these truthful facts out. The opposite would represent the POLITICAL CORRECT BULL-EXCREMENT that constantly flows from people's mouths to continue existing!!!!!!!!!!!!
karl| 1.2.10 @ 1:08PM
I liked the poem. Thought it was a clever twist on William Blake's "The Tyger".
sinanju| 1.2.10 @ 2:58PM
Let us keep ever in mind here that Tiger himself--when he first burst upon the scene in the mid-nineties--poured cold water over all attempts by the usual suspects of the "african-american community" to claim him as one of their own. He rightly pointed out his diverse pedigree and wittily dubbed himself "cablinasian." In the years since, he has refused to lend his name to all the usual liberal celebutard causes and has gone his own way in his charitable works.
Most notably, he showed considerable strength of character during the 2002 Battle of Augusta when feminazi Martha Burk ginned up a campaign against Augusta National Golf Club for its male-only membership policy, wielding every bigoted southern stereotype in the book against Augusta Chairman William "Hootie" Johnson with the entire liberal establishment backing her to the hilt and with the NYT (then under the disastrous reign of self-hating southerner Howell Raines who improbably managed to publish over 500 stories on the subject in those few months) in her hip pocket.
Burk tried to dragoon Tiger into boycotting the Master's tournament. Tiger resisted the pressure and refused to get involved thereby putting himself on the liberal enemies list for all eternity.
For all I can see, Tiger has handled the mess in the worst way possible. Going into seclusion for a time may have been the expected course of action after having been caught engaging in bad behavior until recently but the nineties changed all that. Now, it's seen as an admission of guilt. Our Bill taught us that the best way to bounce back from scandal is laugh it off. Immediately get back in the saddle and pretend like you did nothing wrong and gradually your public will go along with you. Disappearing into one's fortress of solitude only allows time for rumors to run rampant and supporters (and sponsors) to peel away.
As for the racial element again, the only one I can see so far is the one criticizing Tiger for exclusively boinking white women and even that is more of an observation than anything else.
In the pantheon of sinning athletes, the seriousness of marital infidelity only registers according to the image of the athlete in question. If Tiger had a prior record of drug busts, DWI's, nightclub shootouts and battalions of bastard children like his NBA and NFL brethren, cheating on his wife would barely register in the public consciousness. However, when you've spent fifteen years establishing yourself as America's larger-than-life, golf legend cum Wheatie's box idol, any crack in the teflon is equivalent to pulling out a Jenga block.
In retrospect (somewhat similar to O.J. Simpson), it appears there was an entire industry of people that depended on Tiger for their livelihoods and it took that entire industry to cover for his less-than-admirable off-camera behavior; the result of which, our boy gradually came to think he could get away with anything. Alas, there was one important person in his life who was not in on the game and this became his undoing.
My favorite photo to come out of this tragedy is a recent one of the Woods family at an event and wife Elin, baby in her arms, leaning over to affectionately kiss Tiger on the ear and Tiger looking utterly lost and confused. I fear that paramour #2, Jamie Grubbs, was telling the truth when she stated that Tiger had told her he was in a sham marriage for publicity's sake. That sort of thing has been done many times over the centuries and CAN work, but only so long as the party of the 2nd part understands the arrangement AND continues to accept it for a lifetime. It seems Elin Nordgren either did not understand what she was buying into, or even worse, thought she could change him.
SoCon| 1.2.10 @ 3:41PM
Tiger didn't deserve a good woman like Elin; let him drown in his sea of whores. Elin deserves better.
Pete| 1.2.10 @ 5:07PM
Excellent post. I'd bet the farm that if Tiger were an outspoken Obama supporter and pusher of leftist causes, the media would have swept all of this under the rug to the greatest extent possible.
SoCon| 1.2.10 @ 6:02PM
Yeah, like they did with the pig Leftist , Letterman.
Tiger's still a beast, though.
Pat | 1.3.10 @ 1:37PM
We are all sinners.I have racist thoughts and fantacize about adultry.Yes,I have been faithful at least in my deeds for 32 years to the same women but" as a man thinks so is he".By the grace of God I fight against all sinful thoughts and actions.I agree with Larry Kudlow in praying for Tiger Woods and encouraging him to turn to Christ.Larry and I are both recovering addicts saved out of the gutter of rebellion toward God.I still admire Tiger as a golfer and thank God that I have never faced the temptation of money,sex,and power to the extreme as has he.
SoCon| 1.2.10 @ 8:54PM
Olde Farte: You think this is a race issue? I don't, I believe it's a moral issue. Morals, right and wrong; remember them?
I don't consider the white trash who helped Tiger cheat on his wife as "our women." What about Willie Clinton and David Letterman? Do you consider them "our men?" May be these two men are your heroes, but they're not mine.
Trash is trash, regardless of color.
Big Jim| 1.2.10 @ 10:36PM
Oldefarte was tyring to be funny. I've read many of his posts and he is not a bad guy. However, he might want to think his comments through before posting. Tiger has big problems but they're none of our business; move on there is nothing to see here.
SoCon| 1.2.10 @ 10:53PM
I know Olde Fart is an okay guy, I just wanted to clarify what I meant.
Tell Quin that Tiger's troubles are none of his business--he wrote the post.
Besides, it's none of your business if I comment on Quin's post.
Big Jim| 1.2.10 @ 11:07PM
If we followed your point, stated in the last line, there would be no point in these posts. In my opinion, if you post on this type of site, what you say and how you say it is anybody's business (and vice-versa). Anyway, I wasn't picking on you, just putting in a good word for olde.
SoCon| 1.3.10 @ 12:19AM
Tiger's troubles are probably more personal to me than most because the Stanford Cardinal runs deep in both of us. We are both most fortunate, privileged actually, to be part of the Stanford family. Some of my fondest memories and my dearest friends are gifts of my time at "The Farm."
Tiger has been a loyal alum and attended Stanford sporting events with his family. I often pointed out to my own son, James, that as a worthy son of Stanford University, Tiger was someone of whom to be proud.
No one's perfect, and we've all made mistakes, but the breadth and scope of Tiger's deceit have been painful, to say the least.
He knowingly exposed his beautiful wife and adorable children to any number of terrible diseases. What did they do to deserve that?
He's certainly no man I want my son to emulate, and I hope I never see another Stanford cap on his head. IMHO Tiger is an embarrassment.
Noah Webster| 1.3.10 @ 2:04AM
Dear Oldefarte,
The word you're looking for is "libeled", not "slandered". The other word you're looking for is "prevaricator", not "provaricator".
Oldefarte| 1.3.10 @ 1:15PM
No, moron, I meant what I said, and misspelled a word, so WHOPPIEDOEXCREMENT. FYI, libel means statement in WRITING that may unjustly hurt a reputation; whereas slander means a SPOKEN falsehood harmful to another. The poster issued his falsehood in WRITING [it was not SPOKEN], dumba#s, okay?
Margie| 1.3.10 @ 9:49PM
You Leftist imbi-seals are always picking on our spelling!
Oldefarte| 1.3.10 @ 12:59PM
I absolutely DID NOT post the comments [concerning MLK, Kobe, OJ,Tiger,etc]of 1/2/10 @ 7:59PM; and obviously some moronic lunatic is guilty of plagerism, ID theft,etc. I [only] posted the previous 1/2/10 @ 11:46AM [and NOTHING subsequent to same]. I don't know whether whoever posted the 7:59Pm comment is just a stupid as*&ole; or maybe just stupid, but I would suggest that whoever it is, that you learn how to ID yourself and develop the intelligence to post your own comments, not fabricate same with my ID, dumbars!!!!!
SoCon| 1.3.10 @ 7:25PM
I didn't think those comments came from you, OF; I just wanted to make sure you guys understood what I meant.
It's probably Liberal Reader or the creepy Interloper; the Axelrod snots see racism in everything.
They're both jerks, especially Interloper.
Oldefarte| 1.3.10 @ 1:03PM
No doubt, it was the moron 'Paul', since I referred to him by name in my 11:46AM post. ID yourself [imbicile] and have the guts to COME OUT OF YOUR CLOSET !!!!!!!!!
Big Jim| 1.3.10 @ 5:46PM
I didn't think that 7:59 post read like your usually lucid comments. I thought you were trying to be funny and missed the mark. That's the reason I put in a word on your behalf. Don't let the A-hole imposter get your goat.
SoCon, I agree that no decent man would want his son to emulate Tiger. My 15yo son was a Tiger fan for quite some time and he beat Tag Hauer to the punch in dropping him. I also agree that this is a moral issue. I just think we have enough information w/o any more details. What he did to his family is reprehensible, but he seems sincere in his desire to fix the family he broke. In my opinion, at this point he should be left alone to do so.
SoCon| 1.3.10 @ 7:17PM
Tiger is more than just a great golfer to us, he's extended family; that's why this whole sorry situation has been so painful.
Normally, I do not hold up professional athletes as role models; it's risky, at best. But I'm still conflicted about Tiger; what he did was pretty awful, but I still think somewhere in his heart, decency still exists.
I wish the best for Woods and his family; God bless them.
SkyGuy| 1.3.10 @ 11:44PM
In past centuries, some scientific discoveries were released in a coded text. At a later date, the decryption key was released, thus proving authorship at the earlier date.
Noah Webster| 1.4.10 @ 6:42AM
Hey Mr. Oldefarte,
Thanks for that definition of libel vs. slander. So why did you say slandered?
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But names will never hurt me!
I looked up "moron" in the dictionary. Nice picture of you there.
Bye Bye!
Deborah D| 1.4.10 @ 7:19AM
If you'll notice above, he said he didn't post that reply to you (or a previous post) ... Just FYI.
Oldefarte| 1.4.10 @ 1:08PM
Well, you must have also seen your PICTURE and DEFINITION under the "F" words for..................FAGGOT!!!!!!!!
Patriot| 1.4.10 @ 1:11PM
Grow up, Noah, you're embarrassing yourself and the good name of your moniker. No one likes a smart alec.
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