Despite what IMG, Ari Fleischer, and Tim Finchem may blindly hope, America is most certainly not done kicking Tiger Woods; we haven’t forgotten “go to the bathroom and take a picture” quite yet. Just take the temperature of the public at large, then watch what the entertainment industry is doing and you’ll see the true feelings of the rank and file American…and America seems to think that since the sacred cow let itself be led to the slaughter by it’s own mistakes, well we might as well get a burger or two out of the deal.
Hot on the heels of a humiliating roast by Howard Stern, the aminated seriesSouth Park is sharpening the long knives, just in time for the Masters.
According to the article:
“Sex addiction, the intersection of powerful men and willing women, late-night phone calls to the police and bad public relations gave them so much fodder they could have made an entire Tiger-centric season, Stone said.
Since the Peabody Award-winning show’s first episode in 1997, Parker and Stone haven’t worried about lines between good taste and bad if they can get a laugh. They mocked the Church of Scientology to the point of annoying Tom Cruise, and depicted Jesus Christ defecating on President Bush and the American flag.
“There’s a delicacy in talking about (Woods) that we don’t have to worry about,” Stone said.”
And therein lies the rub. The worst element, the tabs and the comedians have sunk their fangs into Woods, and they can’t threatened, bullied, or denied access…although they can be bought, as the ugly “lets trade not publishing the sex tryst with the Perkins waitress (PERKINS WAITRESS!!??) in the car in the church parking lot for a Men’s Fitness article” shows.
These guys, who have no boundaries since everything is animated, may do much worse than just show Phil Mickelson marking his ball with an Ambien at Amen Corner…or maybe John Daly hitting a ball off a Trojan-Enz. The episode will be called sexual healing and will feature some of the South Park kids getting treated for sex addiction.
No, the world hasn’t forgotten that Tiger treated women they were like a buffet table. They also haven’t forgotten that now the PGA Tour…and poor Elin…will forever be immortalized in the porn industry’s new movie “Tiger’s Wood.” They also haven’t forgotten that now tabs will follow a lot more other golfers and try to dig up whatever they can find.
They also remember how impenitent and at times petulant Woods sounded at his glib “presser” – though no questions were allowed. According to this Daily News article, Stone admitted he was disgusted by Woods’s “apology” delivered February 19.
So that’s the legacy that will remain in history long after all the phony pressers the fawning TV broadcasts by talking heads under orders to be gloss over the scandal have ended. America hasn’t forgotten that when it learned the truth about Tiger Woods, it learned he acted like everyone – especially women – were beneath him. Finally, they also haven’t forgotten that the right thing for the PGA Tour to do would be to stand up for women’s rights and publicly condemn the utter boorishness of the whole sordid affair.
Then again, when we’re talking about such role models as Jamie Jungers, Holly Sampson, and Jaimee Grubbs, I guess you need to run in the other direction from them on general principle…which is just what Tiger should have done. But this time we know what they’re selling, so if we let them shove it down our throats with out protest, shame on us.
