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.
Well that’s the downside to fame, people are interested in your DIRT, that’s just a fact of life and they can rail to the heavens about the unfairness of it all, but that is the way it is. With the $$$$$ comes the downside of lack of privacy. People WILL be up in your biz, no way around it.
Injuries from car crash to prevent his participation
11/30/2009
Due to injuries sustained in a one-car accident last week, Tiger Woods will be unable to play in the 2009 Chevron World Challenge.
"I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week," Woods said. "I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I'm very sorry that I can't be there."
"We support Tiger's decision and are confident the strong field and excellent course will provide an exciting week of competition at the Chevron World Challenge, said Greg McLaughlin, Tiger Woods Foundation President & CEO
Woods will not participate in any other tournaments in 2009 and will return to action next year.
By Michael Y. Park
Monday November 30, 2009 08:00 AM EST
The so-called "other woman" whose name has surfaced in the wake of Tiger Woods's accident has hired a high-profile celebrity lawyer and issued an adamant denial of any relationship with the golfing champ.
"I did not have any involvement with him [Woods]," Rachel Uchitel told E! News. "Whatever was written in the Enquirer was not said by me, it was said by two people that claimed they were friends of mine, but they're not." She added: "I am overwhelmed, so I hired Gloria Allred to handle the situation. I don't want to get this much attention, and I wish everybody would leave me alone."
Fess up, be forgiven, and this too shall pass? Ugh. With this attitude, people get away with anything and everything. I DESPISE this attitude — I’m out there with Elin and the golf club. Keep running, don’t bother coming back. Does it not occur to you that people will commit immoral acts because they know that they will be forgiven and all shall pass? It’s the safety net.
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Woods met Florida's legal requirement by providing police with his driver's license, car registration and proof of insurance, and is not obliged to volunteer medical records, video from home security cameras or anything else investigators might want, prominent Florida lawyer Roy Black said.
"Any lawyer with a brain in their head is not going to allow him to talk to the police because nothing good can come of talking to the police," said Black, who defended William Kennedy Smith, a member of America's Kennedy clan, against a rape charge, and radio host Rush Limbaugh in a drug fraud case.
Woods said in a written statement on Sunday that the accident was his fault and was "obviously embarrassing to my family and me." He called irresponsible the "many false, unfounded and malicious rumors that are currently circulating about my family and me."
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The Florida Highway Patrol said it had not made any comments on Woods' medical information, an apparent reference to a published report that investigators were seeking a search warrant for the hospital where the golfer was treated to obtain his medical records.
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And with the police always looking for a charge to put on someone (Hey! It's their job... LOL...), the best advice that you or I or anyone can get is to never ever talk to the police under any circumstances, anywhere at anytime...
Talking to the Police by Professor James Duane
Professor James Duane’s now famous 5th Amendment lecture - popularly known as “Don’t talk to the police!” - has amassed a considerable internet following. The lecture, given as part of Regent Law School’s spring preview weekend.
"If we're unable to meet with him, we'll move on with our investigation," Montes said. But she called the delays "very unusual, because it's such a minor accident."
Now, if the police are saying that this kind of delay is very unusual for "such a minor accident" -- then by inference and conclusion, I would say that the "charges" could only be "minor" too.... LOL...
True, but in our own little world of friends and family, especially in small towns like here, everybody is still up in your biz, even if you’re po’.............
“If his name was Fred Jones of Ottumwa, Iowa, nobody would care about this stuff...............”
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reply to what?
looks like it’s invenerial now...
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i guess you can keep posting those links to every article posted about tiger woods, but i think we have read them all already. as much as you or Tiger may want this to be over and done with, it’s not, by a long shot. fame brings intrusion into privacy, it’s the price you pay. He is no more immune than anyone else.
Further, why is anyone - particularly FReepers - wasting their time with it?
Now..., now... your fellow FReepers like salacious gossip and rumormongering just like the next guy..., you should know that... LOL..
If his name was Fred Jones of Ottumwa, Iowa, nobody would care about this stuff...............
Heck! You're right. I took out a light pole on the freeway and had fire engines and police cars all over the place. I even got my ticket dismissed in court.
No one even cared enough to write it up in the papers... LOL...
Well exactly, so why should tiger be immune to it. His drama is playing on a bigger stage, but i thought myself that if joe blow in ottumwa Iowa was being chased by his wife wielding a golf club, it would cause a stir and be the subject of gossip throughout the neighborhood or town. That is just LIFE.
invenerial?.........whazzat?..............do I need a inoculation?........
This ranks around 266,715th of ‘news’ stories I’m concerned about.
BUT, for FReepers, it ranks right behind Anthopogenic Global Warming and Obamacare.
That indicates you're out of step with the rest of FReepers here. From my observations, this is the #3 topic on Free Republic by article count... LOL...
You know what>? I make no apologies for being interested. it beats the hell out of reading the depressing news that issues forth from the Obama WH on a daily basis. It is of interest precisely because it doesn’t involve US being screwed!
“.....do I need a inoculation?........”
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only bigbromofo knows that!
Perhaps you can get a reality show.......................
Be responsible. What a radical message when the OJ model of denying everything and being a worm to live another day is the dominant one.
WHY did Larry say there was NO INFIDELITY with Tiger, when that is what this is all about??????
Well, actually -- here on Free Republic, it seems to be all about salacious gossip and rumormongering -- but who am I to deny that to fellow Freepers... LOL...
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