Tiger Won't Succumb to Political Pressure

FOXNews.com ^ | Thursday, April 25, 2002 | By Radley Balko

[rwfok]

When Tiger Woods won the PGA Championship in 2000, the mutterings began.

Like all black athletes with "crossover" appeal, whispers echoed on about "tradeoffs" and "giving back," and about it being time Tiger developed a "social conscience."

A handful of sports pundits, including USA Today

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Tiger Woods is a class act regardless of his politics.

[Gophack]

So why do athletes tend to lean right? My guess is because in sports, merit reigns supreme. There are no quotas or affirmative action policies to ensure that the NBA, the NFL or Major League Baseball "look like America."

Sport is uncompromisingly results-oriented. Outcomes are based on performance and efficacy is measured in cold, cold statistics. There are no championship rings for "most diverse offensive line" or "most multicultural starting rotation." Field an inferior team and you’ll lose. It’s that simple. It doesn’t matter what feel-good politics caused you to put your particular lineup on the field.

Great article. I enjoyed it immensely.

[eFudd]

"Progressive" of course means liberal.

NOT true! In the early 1900's communism was having a hard time getting a foothold in the USA. Progressive was substituted for the word communism to make it more palatable for the sheep.

Progressive means Communist. Communists invented the word as used in the political sense.

[AUgrad]

Tiger Woods is a class act regardless of his politics.

Not really. Did you hear what he screamed on national TV as he teed off on the 2nd hole of the Masters?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Did you hear what he screamed on national TV as he teed off on the 2nd hole of the Masters?

Dingell-Norwood?

[FreeTally]

This is kind of humorous considering Tiger doesn't really consider himself to be "black".

[blau993]

Nothing makes a Republican out of you faster than seeing the tax bite on your income. These athletes make good money, and they want to keep it just as much as the rest of us do.

[blau993]

Did you hear what he screamed on national TV as he teed off on the 2nd hole of the Masters?

Let me take a guess that it was approximately the same thing I have been known to holler as my ball slices off toward the woods.

[agrace]

Great article, thanks for posting.

[Ed_in_LA]

Tiger Woods is more Asian than he is black. His mother is Thai, making Tiger 50% Asian, while his father is a mixture of black and white, making Tiger something less than 50% black.

[rockfish59]

my 'tiger' won't cave either

he tells PETA to shove it as he slaps the rodents around!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Did you hear what he screamed on national TV as he teed off on the 2nd hole of the Masters?

You obviously didn't hear him two years ago at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach (on Saturday morning no less). That series of expletives eclipsed this year's Masters by a long shot.

(To be fair, I'm very glad that I'm not miked on those few occasions that I golf.)

[shadowman99]

The irony is I bet Tiger Woods spends very little time thinking about race, unlike the "progressives".

Who's the racist then?

[evad]

Tiger IS a class act...and what a talent. He also has a mind of his own. I remember when the Slixter tried to get him to do a photo op at the White House and Tiger told 'em "No Thanks".

[denfurb]

Um, No, what was it?

[B Knotts]

Did you hear what he screamed on national TV as he teed off on the 2nd hole of the Masters?

Dingell-Norwood?

ROTFLMAO

[justshutupandtakeit]

Communists did not invent the word progressive and until this century hated and fought the Progressive Party as it existed in this country. Or do you pretend The Ole Bullmoose was a communist?

Only around the 30s was the word expropriated by Marxists.

[smith288]

Thats just bad golf etiquette.... I do that same thing and i dont consider myself to be classless.