Granted, the Tiger Woods Mistress saga has spread quicker than syphilis at a swingers' convention. It's exactly what Americans want: quick, easy dirt on a person of fame. Our insatiable appetite for cutting down people with fame--or power, depending on how you view Tiger Woods--only to eventually forgive them of their sin of acquiring their fame via us in the first place is the only thing that wakes us in the morning. We love building people up to tear them down only to build them back up again. As Americans, we're experts at playing moral court.
But I say we get the hell out of Tiger Woods' life.
Whatever he did isn't of our concern. The man is one of the best golfers in the world--maybe the best golfer ever. His infidelities and car accident should have absolutely no standing in our sports media.
But of course they do. Since we're a nation that's supposedly built on a foundation of a man's personal privacy, there's no better news than some person's personal news. The more famous the person, the better. The more women involved, the juicier every reported minute of the event becomes.
To hell with anything sports related anymore. Scores, trades, upcoming major events and tournaments? Neesh. Let's take a potentially career-threatening accident and turn it into a media fuckfest run amuck with hidden mistresses, spousal abuse and--of course--substances of all kinds!
Frankly it's tiresome. When did the American public feel the urge to judge whether one man's faults make or break his career? When did we decide to dig deeper than we really needed to? And who's to say that we have the right to point a dirty finger and judge?
The last time I checked, his morals and our vision of what his morals should be have absolutely no standing on his profession. Yet we hold a man's supposed list of infidelities in as high standing as his short game or his chip shot.
What a great country we live in.
-If Kevin McAllister's age in the original Home Alone was age 8 and the movie was released in 1991, then Kevin would be about 25- or 26-years-old now. Taking into account Kevin's apparent abundance of maturity during both Home Alone movies, what do you think Kevin would be like in 2009?
-Chip Tha Ripper's The Cleveland Show was released last week. Great, new stuff from Chip himself featuring appearances by Curren$y and Naledge with production by Chuck Inglish of The Cool Kids. Cool, kid.
God Is Love,
Rev Rub
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