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Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity
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News/Comment; Posted on: 2009-12-08 16:47:14 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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If I were watching the
public's disgust with the newly revealed Tiger Woods from an office in
the West Wing, I'd be concerned. Because Barack Obama is about as
completely manufactured a political character as this nation has seen.
As a rule, the
revelation that a married athlete (or actor, or rock star, or
politician) has conducted extramarital affairs with bevy of "party
girls" may titillate, but rarely has the power to shock. In those
realms, these things happen. Entitled men. Willing women. Deceived
wives. What's new?
So
what is it about Tiger Woods that makes his cheating so different from
the usual that ten days on, the nation is still discussing revelations
of conquests, trysts, payoffs, and physical injuries inflicted by a
golf club?
Sure, there's normal
prurience at work. But mostly, we are interested because Tiger Woods,
who may legitimately be the best golfer ever, had been turned into an
all-purpose icon: a man of personal rectitude, a lovely smile, apparent
openness; a family man, with a lovely wife and two adorable babies.
And of course, he was our
first living embodiment of the collective hope for racial
reconciliation. Who knew that the early reports of his betrayed wife
Elin swinging at him with a golf club constituted literal icon-smashing?
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News Source: american thinker
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