Hmmm. Yeah, that's a poser.
Posted on 12/13/2009 8:37:44 AM PST by nickcarraway
One of the world's most scrutinized professional athletes, with a pristine image, has been keeping infidelity under wraps. Many wonder how he pulled it off.
As the carefully constructed public image of Tiger Woods continued its excruciating free fall last week, one question perplexed those who think there should have been hints of trouble: How was it possible for Woods, among the world's most scrutinized professional athletes, to keep his infidelity secret for so long?
Just about everyone is at a loss: the golf writers who banter with Woods (when he allows it), golf fanatics who can tell you which way his golf ball's Nike logo was facing when Woods chipped it into the 16th hole in the final round of the 2005 Masters, paparazzi whose paid informants can sniff out a straying spouse a mile away.
How was Woods, 33, able to maintain a pristine image as a loving husband, father and son that was apparently at raging odds with his private life?
Some say Woods' famously controlling nature allowed him to philander unsuspected. (On Friday he admitted publicly that he had cheated on his wife.) Some wonder whether intimidated golf reporters never pressed Woods because they did not want to risk losing the little access they had to the sport's premier practitioner. Some believe that fellow players, had they suspected, would have kept mum because of Woods' beneficial effect on TV ratings, their earnings and public interest in golf.
Others think the singular nature of professional golf itself made it possible for Woods to create a nearly impenetrable zone of privacy -- or secrecy.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas....and the “no snitch” ethic.
In the end, badly.
Enablers. His wife had to have known something..
He didn’t keep his secrets, the news media kept them.
How did Tiger keep his secrets?
Hmm.. Let’s examine that.
1) A PGA that knew about questionable drug/personal behavior yet did not want to kill the Golden Goose.
2) A media that literally created Tiger into a star quashed stories about his behavior.
I’m sure he paid his staff pimps well to secure the ho’s and keep it all on the quiet
Hmmm. Yeah, that's a poser.
I agree...his wife knew..Have been saying right along that they have (had) an open marriage.
I can answer that in one line.
The brotherhood of the d**k.
That and ‘it’s just sex’.
Agreed. There was a lot of money to be made protecting Tiger; none to be made exposing him. Then, along comes the Enquirer, that makes no money from golf coverage, but makes a fortune from celebrity scandals, and the facade comes down like the walls of Jericho.
Kind of like what Reid and his family does in Nevada???
MSM played along ... just like the 0ne.
Like someone else we all know?
ML/NJ
You don't think her reaction indicates that she knew nothing about the "girls?"
I think she is surprised, hurt and through with him. I think she probably feels like a fool for trusting his hype.
The nerve of this being published by the L.A. Times! The same newspaper who hid Edwards affair and the Obama/Khalidi tape.
The answer is simple, L.A. Times. You don’t need to publish 1000 words to figure this out. Tiger kept his secret because you and your buddies in the dinosaur media kept them for him. Just like you continue to do for Obama.
Given the man’s personna, I expect no one was looking for these things.
The WRONG Question: “How Did Tiger Keep His Secrets?”
The RIGHT Question: “How Does OBAMA Keep His Secrets?”
Oh please! This was figured out days ago in a superb article read over the air by Rush. Can’t think of the author, but the point is the MSM, sports writers and the companies whose products Woods hawked kept it all very, very quiet so as to not destroy his “brand”, cost themselves money or be accused of raaaacism by printing the truth about a classless bum. As the author points out...does this carefully crafted and covered-up treatment remind you of anyone else in the national spotlight???
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