Tiger Woods Doesn't Owe You an Apology

The Tiger Woods story is back in high gear and the media love it. I’ve heard several people compare his plight to that of Bill Clinton and other disgraced politicians. In my mind the only people to whom Tiger Woods owes an apology are his wife, children and his sponsors. Tiger Woods doesn’t foist his morals or lack thereof on the public by signing or vetoing legislation. Tiger Woods doesn’t nominate Supreme Court Justices and Tiger Woods is not the Commander of the most powerful military on Earth.

Tiger Woods plays a game. If anyone, the people who owe us an apology are the media for bombarding us with the sordid details of his flings. We all know that many children were fans of Tiger Woods and now millions of children have no doubt been talking about his scandal on the school playground, which is very unfortunate. If on the night Tiger wrecked his SUV, the media had not probed so relentlessly - and none of us knew these affairs ever happened- how would your life be different? If you and/or your children to this day believed that Tiger was the hero he was thought to be by many, would you be worse off? The question is WHY do people feel they have a RIGHT to know the details?

It amazes me how skewed the values of the media are when it comes to their assessment of which public figures should be held accountable for bad behavior. We now find ourselves with a “mystery President” whom years ago, in order to diffuse a scandal, wrote a book in which he admitted to cocaine use. When someone about whom we know very little, also has the least amount of experience of any Presidential candidate in history - throws out a comment in regard to “experimenting with cocaine” - isn’t it worthy of a little media follow up? Where in the h e double L were these assiduous reporters then???? When someone is contending for the Presidency of the United States of America, doesn’t such a statement beg the question of WHAT constitutes “experimenting” with cocaine Mr. Obama? What type of cocaine was it Mr. Obama, crack rock or the snorting kind? How about "WHEN was your LAST experiment?" Is cocaine the reason why a young man like you can’t string together a cogent statement without reading it off of a teleprompter?

Then there’s a gay man out there by the name of Larry Sinclair who has been ignored by our state run media but was appearing in foreign media declaring that he and Obama had an affair and a cocaine party in Sinclair’s Limo while Obama was an unknown state legislator. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MceFVpJ-Gyc . I’m not saying I believe the man but I certainly wouldn’t be –surprised- if he were telling the truth. Considering the ineptitude of people who fancy themselves “journalists”, it is not at all unthinkable that someone like Sinclair could fall between the cracks (no pun intended) . No one knows anything about Obama's past. He's gone by several different names throughout his life, his family says they saw him born in Kenya, no one's seen his official birth certificate, his college transcripts are sealed, so what do we know about him? Shouldn’t someone in this aggressive media have investigated him to the same degree as they did Tiger Woods before becoming his campaign shills? Don't they owe it to the public as an integral part of a democracy? Of course not; it’s not as though he is a PGA golfer or some other occupation in which moral character has any relevance.

For those who feel that Tiger owes you an apology - why? Did he come to you and boast about what a pillar of rectitude he was in order to induce you to sign a contract? NO. Had you known about his transgressions, would you not have bought that Nike cap or used Accenture for your company? This guy was one of the more reticent athletes I have ever seen. It’s not like he was out promoting a particular set of values. He seemed to want to avoid getting involved with politics. I’m not a golf fan and I find what he did offensive but what is perhaps more offensive to me is that I –know- about it. The insipid assertion that “if you don’t like it, you can change the channel” doesn’t apply here. This story is inescapable. It has been everywhere from the checkout line of virtually every store, radio, television, newspaper, Internet headlines and being talked about throughout workplaces and schools around the country.

I don’t expect an apology from Tiger Woods. I want an apology from the voyeuristic media for their ineptitude, double-standards and disrespect.