Because he didn't cheat on you. His wife...the one he lied to and made a fool of and betrayed? Yes. You, the American public who chose to put him on the pedestal from which he has fallen? No. His children for dishonoring their mommy time and time again and making her and this whole situation a joke? Yes. You, the golf fan? No. "We pay their salaries." Right. And they pay yours because they pay taxes like you do.
What is the deal with you, American Public? What is your problem? I hear things like, "I guess we didn't know him after all." Right. You didn't know him. And you don't now. You had no idea who he was and you don't know him any less now than you did then...because you never knew him at all. Did you have dinner with him? Did he go nuclear on you because you snapped a camera in his backswing? Why are we so consumed with ourselves? He doesn't owe you jack squat because you liked his golfing and now you find out he cheated on his wife. Sweet gravy, shut up.
"He's not who we thought he was, I guess." Who did you think he was? Seriously? He plays golf. That's what marks someone as a model citizen now? A sport? Could we be more trivial?
"So many kids looked up to him." Because their parents have no idea who to teach their children to admire. You did that by choice.
Our media is a joke. They live for things like this. This is what makes them what they are. We are a culture of busybodies, consumed with the trivial and deliberately ignorant of the Ultimate. ONLY IN AMERICA will a story about a cat who can water ski immediately follow a story of a baby who died in a house fire when her mom's psycho ex-boyfriend shot her and burned her house down (and why your soap can kill you...tonight at 11). Tiger doesn't owe us a 60 Minutes interview or an Oprah couch moment or a Dr. Phil whatever-it-is-that-he-does-on-his-show show. He needs to disappear and beg his wife's forgiveness and do everything possible under the sun to reconcile with her...he needs to hug his children and apologize to them for what he did to their mother, how he ignored them to indulge his flesh. He needs to come face to face with the God he has forsaken to give his life to a dang sport. NONE of that belongs in the media for our entertainment.
Listen, I get it. It was wrong; I am not trivializing what he did at all. I am calling our obsession with it ridiculous and stupid. I am disgusted with listening to people on radio and TV say that they "feel he needs to apologize to them," and "come clean." To who? You?! Are you serious?!
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Well, you'll sure never get a job as a talking head, with that kind of attitude.
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