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Easy Tiger December 12, 2009

For a few days the media was rock solid up there on the moral highground: sleeping with somone who’s not your wife makes you a worthless piece of shit who deserves to be hounded to the ends of the earth. Stone the adulterer. But now Tiger Woods has fallen on his pork sword, big style. Can you hear a gathering whisper of  ‘err, hang on a minute, what have we done to our meal ticket.’?

Now we’ll get the tactical retreat.

We’ll hear earnest media psycho babble like ‘so long as he’s learnt his lesson, this will make him a better, stronger human’, he’ll be a man the sinless (that’s us) should ‘be prepared to forgive, to welcome back’ – on our terms of course, with a solemn, patronising pat on the back. He’ll be ‘a tamed Tiger’ who should ‘be given a chance’. A chance to, to … I know, to resume pulling in huge audiences for big media and big advertising.

Gimme a sick bag. Stuff the media. Imagine it was your neighbour, your best mate. I hope Tiger walks away and doesn’t come back, he’s done everything in golf already and nobody can take it away from him. And it would serve all those prurient, hypocriticial tosspots right.

Anyway, can we have a bit of a crowd sourcing poll – if every man and woman in Britain who’d been unfaithful rang their boss on Monday to announce their  indefinite break from work, how long do you reckon it would be before famine swept the land?