Posted by
VBushmills on Tuesday, December 15, 2009 8:34:55 AM
On the 10th we posted here advice to Tiger, and some observations about the media. http://www.redstate.com/vassar/2009/12/11/from-fdr-to-tiger-woods-the-constant-thread-of-manufacture/
Tiger seems to be taking the advice (from someone else) that
we offered up; i.e., laying low, taking a sabbatical from golf,
ostensibly to save his marriage and family. On these matters we are
never cynical, so will dispense with the Tiger jokes until/unless he
steps on it again. We have to give every professed penitent the benefit
of the doubt. Clinton never 'fessed up. Gore and Kerry, both fantastic
liars, never have had to 'fess up either. And as I wrote, JFK never got
the chance.
Which brings us back to the role of the media.
I've heard mentioned more than once since the Tiger story broke, that
the media always knew about Tiger's promiscuity (just as they did
Jack's), yet, in order to have access and to be allowed to be a kind of
"groupie" to Tiger, they kept it quiet.
Maybe this analysis
is bass-ackwards. The media made Jack Kennedy. They made Al Gore. They
made Barack Obama. They didn't make Tiger, but they did make him
something he wasn't, and that something extra put tens of millions of
dollars in his pockets, as well as his fellow golfers' and the PGA. And
like the sainthood of JFK, they were the first to cash in the "crash".
Can anyone find an innocent motive in Tiger's biggest stalkers today his biggest protectors yesterday?
This is just a notion, worthy of a book by some intrepid investigator,
but if the media are indeed one of many potential
master-handlers/puppeteers, rather than dreamy-eyed groupies, they need
to be looked at once again in an even more sinister light...for with
Barack Obame we may indeed be dealing with deep-set megalomania.
VB