HE'S A HYPOCRITE WITH GUTLESS STANCE (Tiger Woods)

NYPOST ^ | July 17, 2002 | Mark Cannizzaro

[Michael2001]

GULLANE, Scotland - Tiger Woods, who champions himself as a man vehemently against exclusionary policies for reasons of race or anything else, should be ashamed at the gutless straddle-the-fence answer he delivered yesterday to a question about women not being allowed as members of Augusta National. "[Augusta National is] entitled to set up their own rules the way they want them," said Woods, whose early existence in golf was all about opening doors to those like himself who were excluded because of prejudice, emphasized by his first Nike TV commercial that blared against his exclusion from certain golf clubs because of the color of his skin.

[Michael2001]

Or maybe he just wants to be a golfer and not a politician. Plus, if he's pissing off Jackson's Rainbow Push then he's gotta be doing something right

[Michael2001]

I know you always like the sports threads

[TADSLOS]

It's scary that the most influential person in sports - and well beyond - has allowed himself to acquiesce to such nonsense.

Well, it doesn't apply to a whole host of sports figures and celebrities who make mindless remarks and champion nonsensical liberal causes.

[Sabertooth]

Thanks for the ping...

It appears Tiger Woods is a champion of the right of free association. Who knew?

[scholar]

Or maybe he just wants to be a golfer and not a politician.

Tiger has made it to where he is today without a lot of whining about the hurdles he faced, and I don't see why he should get involved in this issue.

Let Jesse and his ilk take up the cause if it's so darned important.

[RepoGirl]

It's scary that the most influential person in sports - and well beyond - has allowed himself to acquiesce to such nonsense

I find this kind of nonsense scary.

I remember listening to some talk radio station when I was still living in Boston, and some yutz 'of color' was on decrying Tiger Woods for being a sell out to his race because he was calling himself a 'caublinasian' and not identifying with the black community and serving as a standard bearer for the party line.

Said yutz's contention was that Tiger was showing great disrespect to all those who'd worked so hard for civil rights. He was thumbing his nose at Rosa Parks, Reverend King, Malcolm X, et al by not playing the race card. Moreover, by adopting a color blind stance, he was not only dissing his people, the ungreatful little cretin, but acting as a poor role model for disadvantaged (read: liberal blacks still on the entitlement plantation) youths by 'pretending to be white'.

Every liberal knows, a good African American is a subserviant, victimized African American, it's the 'uppity ones' that you gotta watch out for. Just look at the hatchet job performed on Jack E. Robinson in Jamaica Plain.

[RAT Patrol]

But in this case, his comments yesterday - condoning the exclusion of women (and anyone else, for that matter) from private clubs - are deplorable and utterly hypocritical based on the man he sells to the public.

Give me a freakin' break. There is no way this compares to race discrimination. Women are a bunch of whiny babies (myself excluded). They are perfectly free to have a club for women only. I hope Tiger doesn't cave to the pressure! There is a huge difference between REAL and PERVASIVE discrimination and simply a private club's right to free association.

[caisson71]

Tiger continues to amaze people. He now leaves the sports baiters aghast by confirming the right of people to associate with whomever they choose. I think it is a bigger headline than the pinheaded journalists wanted.

[tm61]

Last night ,on CBS, (I watch it just to get the leftist view of reality) Rather lead the story off with the usual breathless BS, along the lines of "Tiger Woods finds himself in a growing controversy over recent remarks" They played a clip of him saying "Its their place, they can do what they want" I kept waiting to hear the scandelous part til I realized, in the eyes of the PC left, that was it. Amazing. The leftists think any individual property rights are null, void and history.

[latrans]

I recall that Tigger was vehemently against a semi handicapped golfer who wanted to use a cart.

[Psycho_Bunny]

The gutless wonder of the article is the author: Mark Cannizzaro.

He's a sniveling little baby who hides behind his writing and won't accomplish, in his life, 1/100th of what Tiger's accomplished.  

He's a nothing...a nobody.

Not that I'm all that fond of Woods.  There's something about his attitude...seems bad sometimes.  But, I think I'm seeing a little of my own bad attitude in him - minus the "being the best at what you do" aspect - and that makes me uncomfortable with him.

Still, he did nothing to warrant this puerile Cannizzaro twittle-rant.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I think every "true" golfer was against that guy.

It was BS.

[perez24]

I think a lot of sportswriters are dying for a chance to slam Tiger Woods but have a hard time doing it without sounding like an idiot or non-PC. This was a golden politically correct opportunity to get in some shots.

[LisaFab]

Here in the Northeast, sports writers (except George Will) are a bunch of whiny liberals like almost all other 'journalists'.

[goo goo g'joob]

women play slow

[demlosers]

Way to go Tiger.

[elephantlips]

Thank God there is a celebrity with the use of a "bully pulpit" who doesn't think his opinions are the end all and be all. Private Associations are a freedom in this country. They don't have to be open to anyone other than those they wish. Place that in your anal cavity Mr. Cannizzaro.

[grumpster-dumpster]

Mark Cannizzaro (the author) must have played a really bad round lately.

[jpl]

Tiger Woods is one of the few true heroes in sports today.

[Sabertooth]

Remember when Tiger refused to be used as a black prop by Bill Clinton on the Golden Anniversary of Jackie Robinson's entry into the big leagues?

Jackie Robinson was a Republican, btw.