hello. hooray for Mr. Woods. he represents America. i hope he returns in such form so as to far surpass all the previous records set: and without steroids continue on to raise the bar to a new standard for the next great golfer to come along in his footsteps. we like achieving the unachievable; and Mr. Woods brings all of us with him to the next highest level. that’s what America is about. Hooray

Eugene….

In the words of Scarlett O’Hara “My…how you do run on so…..”

Additionally, doesn’t “GOLF” stand for Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden?  Well, I guess SOME of us would call that “sport”, then again… there’s a whole slew of us who haven’t “seen” the light yet.

“Let me interrupt the constant flow of” unending hyperbole about the half-black Democratic president Obama’s corporate bailout and bank rescue from his de-facto press agent Eugene Robinson to question his equally air-brushed glorification of Tiger Woods. “To celebrate the return to competition of its best-known and highest-paid endorser, Nike produced a funny commercial in which other golfers from the Nike stable make the most of Woods’ absence — tournament trophies, limousines, flowing champagne, pool parties with bikini-clad models” - funny to arrant apologists for power and privilege like Robinson and his liberal cronies at the Post maybe but not too amusinng to anyone with the least sense of social concern or fair labor practices. That, of course does not inlude Robinson, as he has so often shown in the past in promoting the corporate agenda, nor his hero Woods, both of whom seem blithely untroubled by Nike’s long history of the most extreme exploitation of sweatshop labor in impoverished countries, mainly in Asia. You won’t find “limousines, flowing champagne, pool parties” at Nike factories around the world, instead you’ll find squalid conditions, inhuman hours and slave wages. Unfortunately, the “glum irony” of all this is missed on the obtuse Robinson. It’s also missed on that creep Woods who enjoys a reported $100 million multi-year endorsement deal with Nike. That’s $55,000 a day compared with an Indonesian sweatshop worker’s $1.25 a day in deplorable conditions. Nike has attemted recently to dress up it’s image but the stark conditions for its contract slave workers hasnn’t improved much. Not that Robinson gives a damn. Rather than using the opportunity to discuss serious issues of exploitation of international labor he drones on about effete, overpriveleged American golfers. “This would be a great time for the most watchable athlete in the world to” - speak out on these practices instead of profiting so unconscionably from them. “The question of whether the term” whore “can be used to describe anyone who plays golf for a living” and makes obscene amounts of money from sweatshop labor “should be definitively settled.” “Woods’ performance” when asked about it at the British Open a few years ago took moral cowardice as he ingloriously replied: “No one has asked me because all I do is play golf. I chase a little white ball around, that’s all I do. We talk about it. But it’s never been raised as an official question or anything like that.”  And as long as you have “slsck-jawed” and ‘slack moral-ed’ publicists like Robinson around, it probably never will. Obviously, chasing a little white ball around is a lot more important than the welfare of millions of exploited third-world workers. “But this is” a journalist “who specializes in making the absurd seem not just possible but inevitable.” “This is an apt moment to be reminded that extraordinary” injustices “can, indeed, be accomplished” with help from Tiger Woods. “It’s easy to look at the latest” sweatshop employment “figures and feel depressed, easy to behold the wreckage” in underdeveloped countries “and feel overwhelmed”. And then to see some over-hyped America jock getting paid millions to “chase a little white ball around”. Screw you, Tiger. “Remind us that we’re limited only by our” corporate WTO economy and its endorsers. Exploited sweatshop workers around the world turn their accusing eyes to you.

Great at golf but, like Obama, he is only half black. Neither seems to see the world from the point of view of those who are oppressed by the US. Tiger isn’t a politician and neither was Ali. Ali was a man of courage and peace. Tiger is a man of ?

Who gives a damn about Tiger Woods, or golf for that matter. This lilly white activity(it’s not a sport) represents everything that is wrong with america. And come to think of it, so does Tiger Woods.

When the time came for Tiger to be counted, to use his celebrity for some good, he cow-towed, uncle tom style to the white powers that be just to make a little more money at Augusta.

Do you think Muhammad Ali would have looked the other way at golf’s transgressions and played at the masters? Even when the only black men allowed at Augusta work in the kitchen.

Tiger is a living, breathing example of repug philosophy at work, he would sell his mother for a couple more bucks.

Tiger becomes our means of escape from bitter reality much like Shirley Temple did for the Great Depression. Great article, Mr. Robinson.