Who's Sorry Now?

Tiger Woods is sorry now. Well, not sorry ENOUGH for some people. Some people have taken issue with his reading a prepared "script" in his televised address to the nation. The NERVE!

Neverminding that he took several weeks to apologize to us, the cheatin' SOB cheated us- as a nation- by not tearfully winging it and begging for our forgiveness like a man should! Bastard! Where's Gloria Allred when WE need her?

Oh, she's representing the porn star that Tiger boffed who needs a personal apology of her own from Tiger. For what, I have no idea. I guess we as a nation, hurt and abandoned by Tiger, must fend for ourselves in this painful trashing of our collective hearts with only various media outlets, sportswriters and pundits to speak for us. We're left to sit on our national couch, a box of tissues at our side and a gallon of Rocky Road in our laps, crying our eyes out over this jilting while he walks away- SCOT FREE- having cleansed himself with...a prepared speech.

A million guys have tearfully apologized to a million cuckold wives throughout history. They stammered through admissions of guilt without reading from a script. They may have rehearsed a bit on the way over but, except for some who have written letters (admissable in divorce court-DUMBASSES!) most fella's have just winged it.

Not Tiger. He probably didn't even write the speech himself. Maybe one of his lawyers or his caddy did it...

This befuddles me as much as the consternation the tea-baggers express over President Obama's use of a teleprompter when he gives speeches. Um, Bush used the teleprompter (not very well though) and Reagan did and TV news anchors do and pretty much everybody who gives speeches in public does since, oh, the fucking thing was INVENTED! Why not Obama? (Tea- baggers want us to live like we did in colonial times, like our founding fathers intended, only with fully automatic weapons instead of flintlocks and blunderbusses. They will continue to feel this way until they take over. Then, there will be a new discovery known as "the teleprompter" which will replace palm notes)

The baggers and their somewhat less violent cousins, the republicans, act as if our president cannot speak on his feet without words to read on a magical piece of plexiglass. Not true. Frankly, every politician known to man has been, to usually a better degree than you or I, a pretty fair orator. Speaking to people is how one gets elected. Well, that and the occasional Supreme Court decision. Obama may say "ummm..." a lot but, put him in a room with some republican politicians and he owns the room. The man can talk AND read like no other president since Bill Clinton.

So why shouldn't Tiger Woods who is, for all intents and purposes a golfer by trade, be allowed to read from a prepared speech when he addresses the nation? Is it the part black thing? I hope not and since I've already covered that, I don't care to go there again. Really, how many of us are glib, gifted public speakers able to talk about important things at the drop of a hat? How many of us SHOULD be? If you take away the prepared speech, you get Rod Blagoevich. Who wants that?

The media, the comedians and those who care to sit in the jury box of the Court Of Public Opinion, the highest court in the land, that's who.