Posted on 12/01/2009 6:14:00 AM PST by Kaslin
Fess up, Tiger. If you don’t, the tabloids are gonna kill ya.
The storyline so far is that for some reason your apparently furious wife Elin teed you up inside your Florida mansion with one of your Nike golf clubs, and that you sought escape by hot-footing it outside at two-thirty in the morning to your Cadillac Escalade in the driveway. But Elin kept coming at you. So you tried to slam the SUV down the driveway in racecar fashion, something you’ve probably done hundreds of times before. Only this time, for some reason, you hit a fireplug and wrapped the car around a tree.
But Elin still kept coming at you, slammin’ the club into the rear windshield. She must have had a long iron in her hand. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
How you got your face scratched and wound up on the side of the road is still a mystery. But the tabs are saying a woman named Rachel Uchitel is the alleged home-breaker. That you have some kind of relation ship with her. And that story is not going to die until you put it to rest one way or another by fessing up and telling the truth.
Adding fuel to these flames, you have pulled out of your very own tournament, the 2009 Chevron World Challenge, which is scheduled for this week. Tiger, my friend, one thing you need to consider is the business angle to this narrative.
The Daily Beast is running a story about your $100 million car crash. Investigative reporter Gerald Posner estimates that even if you take a 10 percent hit on your endorsement income, this incident could cost you $10 million a year, totaling $100 million over the next decade. At risk could be your contracts with Nike, Gatorade, and AT&T. There’s also Accenture and the EA video-game series.
So, my friend, marital infidelity just doesn’t pay.
South Carolina governor Mark Sanford tried stonewalling, but it didn’t work out too well for him. His career is now finished. Another bad case is that of former North Carolina senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate John Edwards. He really had a bad time of it, with the tabloids literally chasing him into the bathroom. His career is finished, too. On the other hand, Nevada senator John Ensign did fess up -- about one half step ahead of the tabloids -- and he may well live to see another reelection day.
And then there’s Bill Clinton, who stonewalled about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Woaaah! That caused one heck of a blow up, including impeachment proceedings in the House. Remember when he said that it “depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is”? This was the worldwide sex-cover-up stonewalling attempt to end all marital-infidelity sex-cover-up stonewalling attempts.
Tiger, you don’t want to go there. That could be you. There are lessons to be learned about coming clean as fast as possible.
Even though I personally have only one-ten-thousandth of your media and business impact, perhaps my story will be helpful. Over 15 years ago, after missing a big speech and resigning from my career on Wall Street, the New York Times came after me with a story of serious alcohol and drug abuse. They were right. I believed then as I do now that honesty is a virtue, and I fessed up. I got sober. My saintly wife and I recently celebrated our 22nd marriage anniversary. And today I am fully employed at CNBC (for which I am eternally grateful). People forgave me. God redeemed me.
But in your case, if there is no alcohol, drugs, or infidelity, and if there is a better-sounding, truthful explanation of your events, you’ve gotta get out there and say it. As you know, your clean, serious, sober, near-perfect, golden-boy bloom is already off the rose. And if you insist on stonewalling, from now on it’s damage limitation. And that will be no fun at all. Your bottom will be lower than anything you ever imagined.
Fans love the way you play, and so do I. Sunday afternoons are a treat watching you. But you’re in a heap of trouble right now. Stonewalling, whether in business or politics, seldom pays.
C’mon Tiger. Be a mench. Fess up and clear the air. If you do it soon, you will be forgiven, and this too will pass.
Hopefully, the FHP will get a search warrant and get to the bottom of it. At some point, Lieger Woods will fess up.
” tiger woods little imbroglio provides some escapism from our all too terrifying day to day reality. “
The way Tiger is handling this - is Barry writ small.
Rules and laws do not apply to me , but, thee.
The Florida HP could have completed their accident scene investigation within hours if Tiger and the wife had been honest
and cooperated and taken whatever legal punishment was appropriate.
A reckless driving citation and paying for the property damages would probably have ended the story.
I bet LE would have been understanding if both parties had been contrite and honest.
Instead they concoct this ridiculous scenario and then lawyer up.
And there is still the mystery surrounding the
bizarre unconsciousness and incoherence .
If Joe Blow was found in a similar situation, with his wife standing over him with a Louisville Slugger would he get the white glove treatment
that Woods is demanding ?
The sports guys are not just after Tiger to be honest and cooperate with the police , but,
he’s now become the butt of jokes.
Tiger’s lucky his neighbor wasn’t coming home from a late night or outside
walking a sick dog.
i’m not sure it’s clear yet that there weren’t neighbors who saw something, actually!
I think Tiger is panicking, since he’s spent so much of his life under this squeaky clean image, and doesn’t know how to handle this newfound negative spotlight. I also think this woman married him for his money, I think she’s abusive and domineering and he’s probably afraid of her. There is no evidence that there was an affair, just speculation. I don’t believe he should talk to the police since its none of their business beyond what he’s already provided them with. As for the public, well, he’s an excellent golfer, not an actor or politician, why does being an excellent golfer automatically mean that all his personal business is public? I think everyone needs to back off on this one, its truly none of our business.
Larry Kudlow found Jesus, and became a Catholic christian.
I'm not catholic, but I am delighted with that decision.
I wish he would be a little more real with Tiger Woods, and tell him what he really needs to know.
“I believe most of us are under the impression that if we’re involved in an accident with property damage, and the police show up to investigate, we give information.”
You can tell you have not read these Tiger threads...they are full of information regarding the police! Three days worth now.
This Rachel gal has been telling everyone...since June... about Tiger. A few of her friends also have told all. They thought it was cute.
Since the accident, she’s denying everything, including that she is/was friends with a certain girl whom she told..
HA! The Enquirer has a picture of her and the girl vacationing together in Spain.
It will be interesting to see how Allred will handle this.
as someone pointed out, allred is probably there to negotiate a deal with tiger’s atty so that rachel of sunnybrook farms won’t dump all the goods she has on him. this other girlie seems ready to tell all, unprovoked.
“too late.....”
OMG!
looks like they are going to vie for attention, now that the cats out of the bag. another thread refers to multiple others.
You Woods worshippers seem incapable of understanding that Woods' bad behavior is BAD BEHAVIOR. He refuses to autograph things for the kids or other fans. Add in the fact that he refuses to leave tips for restaurant staff whenever he eats out, and you have the recipe for the perfect @sshole.
There is no point in defending this jerk.
He is a very typical democrat, and it makes ZERO sense to defend this loser.
Larry there are important things going on worthy of discussion and this isn’t one of them. Tiger Woods doesn’t want your advice and it’s none of your business anyway.
“the recipe for the perfect @sshole.”
I suspect he cannot take your title.
>The policy will get a warrant if he won’t talk. You don’t get a free pass running over a fire hydrant and crashing your car into your neighbor’s tree at 2:30 am without an explanation.
*I watched. He got a fine, not a warrant. Under FL law he did the bare minimum required by the law..BTW I can’t stand golf and am not a fan. Well, I’m a fan of MY privacy.
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