Sunday, December 13, 2009

Catch A Tiger By The Toe...Cheesy


I've been reading a lot of blogs about Tiger Woods, so I thought it prudent to weigh in with my thoughts on this whole debacle. I am already quite sick of this controversy and just wish we could move on to new business already. I get it he was married and he cheated with a slew of women. I realize that Tiger is a public figure so I understand that it is a news story, I just wish it wasn't. His story is no different then the same stories you hear on Jerry Springer. Being that he is such a celebrity it warrants huge amounts of press coverage but I feel that he should be entitled to privacy, let alone dignity. I think what he was did was reprehensible but that is his own private business, what right to "we" have to invade him like this. People are so eager, dare I say happy, to disparage him. Two weeks ago everybody loved him and now they are calling for his head on a pike. It seems that the human condition is such that "they" build you up but once you get there they can't wait to tear you right back down. It just bugs me how people are so mistake-free and self-righteous, they have never made a mistake. I don't agree with Tiger but at the same time I am not judging him either. It is life and he can live it how he wants, who am I to comment on it. I genuinely feel bad for the guy. Despite his actions, I don't feel anybody deserves to be berated the way he is. Also, not to be a stickler, but nothing has been directly outright proven one way or another. It bothers me how this is the most important thing in the news right now, a guy cheated on his wife....how shocking. I'd be willing to bet that there are far more pressing issues that warrant news coverage...priorities people!
Another thing that has gotten on my nerves lately is the accusations that Tiger is racist being that the women he allegedly had the affair(s) with are all white. It's ludicrous, he can't just simply cheat on his wife, the race card must be brought into it. I think the news organizations are really stretching it here. How is having a sexual preference or affinity for now something considered racist. Its like if he had slept with black, Asian, and Latino women it would have been far more acceptable and politically correct. I mean his wife is white, is that racist because he didn't choose a wife that "looked for like him". I mean think this is the opposite of racism being that he had affection for a race that "wasn't his own". It's not like he was negative towards any particular race. I think this is a sign that the news has to move own, they are just grasping for straws and trying to squeeze every last bit of life out of this story. The guy is ruined, mission successful. Let's move on to some new business!

1 comment:

  1. It really is sad what the news will descend itself to. I completely agree, and its interesting that a country that believes in "innocent until proven guilty" seems to always want to jump the bandwagon and accuse someone of a fault/crime/whatever.

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