Comments on: ‘Indefinite,’ ‘Hiatus,’ ‘Infidelity’: Tiger Woods Gives America Vocabulary Lesson http://www.disinfo.com/2009/12/indefinite-hiatus-infidelity-tiger-woods-gives-america-vocabulary-lesson/ alternative views, news & information—online, video and print Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:34:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Gregory http://www.disinfo.com/2009/12/indefinite-hiatus-infidelity-tiger-woods-gives-america-vocabulary-lesson/comment-page-1/#comment-3973 Gregory Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:43:59 +0000 http://www.disinfo.com/?p=17219#comment-3973 I have zero sympathy for Tiger. When the car crash happened, that was his opportunity to clear the air. But what he did is defend his privacy and shrug it off as a routine traffic accident when it's clear now it was part of a larger happening in his family's life. Now the public image he so meticulously crafted in order to accumulate wealth and celebrity was just that, an image.<br><br>We worship some of our own, make them into demi-gods and make offerings to them by buying the products they endorse and then wonder why they often fall. I have zero sympathy for Tiger. When the car crash happened, that was his opportunity to clear the air. But what he did is defend his privacy and shrug it off as a routine traffic accident when it's clear now it was part of a larger happening in his family's life. Now the public image he so meticulously crafted in order to accumulate wealth and celebrity was just that, an image.

We worship some of our own, make them into demi-gods and make offerings to them by buying the products they endorse and then wonder why they often fall.

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