Bout time for the police to back the f*ck off tiger….and about time for the media to stop acting like he is breaking a law or rule. He does NOT have to talk to any police about the matter and they have no right to go after his med records. F*ck them, lawyer up, and sue their arses off.

What was Tiger’s biggest mistake?

He didn’t use a driver.

Seriously, his handlers screwed this up majorly. No one would have cared if he would have responded quickly and written the narrative, the #1 rule in crisis management.

Tiger isnt required by law to answer police questions. He has done nothing wrong, it will be interesting to see what comes of this.

It’s reassuring to know that I’m not the only one who seriously doesn’t care about Mr. Woods personal life. My advice to the MSM is to let the matter rest, but I know they won’t and it’ll end up being just one more reason people avoid buying their papers, or watching their TV programmes.

I ususally fall on the side of the police, but police in Florida celebrity enclaves have a reputation for fishing expeditions (Rush’s medical records?).

Clearly *something* happened to trigger this event, but with no witnesses, no complaints from Tiger or his wife, and no real evidence of domestic violence, this boils down to a traffic citation. Traffic citations do not mandate search warrants, sit-down interviews, and paging through medical records.

I wonder how long before we’ll get Obama saying “the police acted stupidly”, liberal groups calling the police and the people who dialed 911 racist, and Tiger, Obama, and the police cheif sitting down for a beer at the White House?

Was the accident on a public road?
If yes then the police are obligated to investigate. Nobody should be above the law.
Should he come completely clean like Hugh Grant on the Leno show all those years ago?
Yes, he should for no other reason than to get those media whores off his back. The more he stays silent the more they’ll swarm like wasps because the public will demand answers even though it is none of their business.
He should not have cancelled his upcoming tourney because that just adds fuel to the fire.
He neends to act quickly to get the stink off of him and onto the media that is haunting him.

Was the accident on a public road?
If yes then the police are obligated to investigate.

Only up to the point where they suspect a legal violation. The Florida Highway Patrol has already said alcohol wasn’t involved (which means drugs weren’t involved either, since they only way they could know that is with a tox screen and drugs would have shown up on that) and they don’t believe it was a “domestic issue”. In fact as far as I can tell there doesn’t seem to be anything at all to warrant a police investigation. Just write him a ticket for reckless driving and be done with it.

Thus reinforcing my belief that nothing good can come from golf. A good walk spoiled, as Mr. Clemens once said. A good day of fishing wasted, I say. Professional fishermen never get in this kind of trouble! ;-)

He didn’t sound humble and contrite, mighty. That’s the problem. He sounded like he was hiding something.

You can talk in the ideals, sam. But the reality is that the media smells blood for a reason. Its not their job to respect privacy, its their job to follow a story.

Until Tiger comes clean in some manner, they will not stop.

Until Tiger comes clean in some manner, they will not stop.
Posted by D-Vega
2009-12-01 13:32:26

And that’s a shame, but the media is free to keep pushing this non-story as much as their ratings can take. But what I really want to not hear anymore is the incessant calls that Tiger “owes” an explanation of some kind. Garbage. He owes nothing. Hell, I even heard a conservative saying the same thing (forget who, some guy sitting in for Hannity on his radio show last week). Police found no probable cause of a crime, they need to issue whatever traffic citation they feel is warranted, pack up, and go back to their business.

But the reality is that the media smells blood for a reason.

Oh please, the media smells blood in everything (except of course Barack Obama’s personal history). Remember the huge hubub they created about a Koran that was allegedly dunked in a toilet by an American prison guard, that later turned out to be a complete hoax?

Its not their job to respect privacy, its their job to follow a story.

Which is precisely the problem. The media’s desire to “follow a story” never seems to take the actual consequences into account. (Notice how no member of the media bothered to publicly apologize for the huge riot that resulted from their rabid promotion of the Koran-dunked-in-toilet hoax.)

The media’s mantra that “the public has a right to know” is complete horseshit. The public doesn’t have a right to know this. The public doesn’t have a need to know this. And Tiger Woods doesn’t “owe” anybody anything. This attitude that he “owes” an explanation to the public is exactly the reason the media has been able to get so out of control and irresponsible over the years. Bottom line: You are not entitled to know the intimate details of his personal life any more than he is entitled to know the intimate details of yours.