Posted on 01/28/2008 6:28:12 AM PST by Dukes Travels
The weeks-long brouhaha over Golf Channel anchor Kelly Tilghman’s use of the word “lynch” reached its next logical point last week, when football legend Jim Brown called out Tiger Woods for failing to speak out right away about the comments, and for waiting until it was “politically correct” to say something.
Originally about an announcer’s unfortunate use of a phrase, the controversy has mutated into one about media ethics and now, finally, about how much responsibility the world’s most dominant athlete has to right the wrongs of the world.
A quick overview, for those who haven’t been following it: On a January 4 Golf Channel broadcast, in which she and others were discussing how the rest of the PGA field could compete with Woods, Tilghman suggested that the players should "lynch him in a back alley.” Through his agent, Woods, who described himself as a friend of the anchor, initially said he didn’t read any ill will into the comments.
Al Sharpton approached the situation with his usual class, issuing a strongly worded statement in which he demanded Tilghman be fired – although he appeared totally unaware that Tilghman is a female.
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Panicky loudmouth journalists trying to create another story, another sensation?
Guffaw.
Exactly.
Come on Tiger mover to florida just to get away from state taxes. I really don’t see him endorsing a liberal. Even if that liberal is....uhh Black
Yeah, LOW
Tiger Woods obviously doesn’t carry the chip on the shoulder that Jim Brown does.
I dont recall Tiger ever saying he was black.
No one (except maybe Tiger Woods himself) seems to be willing to consider the possibility that it was a poor choice of words by a person speaking on-the-fly, and the best course of action is to ignore it.
To allow the usual race pimps to dredge up the usual rhetoric is to play the same old game with the same old outcome.
Maybe Tiger Woods is smarter than that.
This is another example of Tiger’s class.
Tiger is not weak minded to fall into the race baiting trap.
Oprah tried the same trick.
Tiger then said he was an American. Not a hybrid.
Tiger was not going to disrespect his mother either.
Oprah was mad.
Gee, I was fully aware of this, enjoy golf and had become completely oblivious to it.
Isn't Woods a golfer?
These lefties DO have their little wily tricks, don't they.
Leni
Woods should stay out of politics. As far as th woman, I think he handled that quickly and said no prob, the magazine felt a suspension was in order and that was out of tiger’s hands.
As far as endorsing Obama, that’s a laugh, most golfers are conservative republicans and if tiger were a elitist lib I’d prefer not to know.
Why would an Asian-American like Tiger woods be upset at race-baiting about black people? After all, he has more Thai and Indian (Feather, not dot) blood in him than he has African.
I marvel at the race-baiting leftists, dictating to Tiger Woods how he is supposed to feel and act as a black guy.
“Maybe Tiger Woods is smarter than that.”
No maybe about it. Tiger lets his actions speak louder than words.
And by the way, Al - have you apologized to the police officers you slandered during the Tawana Brawley fraud or paid any of that judgment you owe? Yeah, I didn’t think so. But you keep that hypocritical a$$ of yours busy pointing out fault in others.
Da bitches and the hos
And even Tiger knows
He better than the rest
He be the all time best
His homeys aint too happy
But he got a lot of class
So they gotta take him out back
And put a cap in his ass
Ya fillin' me dog?
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