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Golfweek Editor Fired for Noose Cover

By now, everyone knows about the controversy with the Golf Channel personality (and friend of Tiger Woods) named Kelly Tilghman. In response to her co-anchor's joke that younger players should "gang up" on Tiger Woods during the golf tournament, Tilghman said that they ought to "Lynch him in a back alley". She was innocently laughing during the exchange, and Woods' agent was said he didn't think there was any ill intent.

MEANWHILE, the so-called Rev. Al Sharpton starting making his protests and demands, like he speaks for the black community. Anyone who lived in New York during the 1980's knowns that Sharpton is a fraud, self-promoter, and should be working in the WWE.

So, thanks to the MEDIA, Tighman had to be suspended for two weeks.

Dave Seanor, editor of Golfweek, wanted to use a cover to draw attraction about this controversial story, about how the Golf Channel got "caught in a noose". There was a debate, but he decided to go with the noose. He needed to meet a deadline and forgot to run the final copy by his boss.

Well, once again, thanks the MEDIA and PGA, Golfweek fired Seanor.

If all of this sounds ridiculously oversensitive, politically correct, and bowing to the perception that advertisers would pull from their products, you are correct.

Look-

Kelly Tilghman made a bad joke.

Tiger wasn't offended.

Is there any evidence that black viewers were offended? I mean, did the Golf Channel get phone calls, e-mails, or letters from blacks demanding justice? I doubt it. But the MEDIA ran with it, like it was a big thing. Same with the Golf Weekly magazine cover.

No one speaks for "the black community", especially a scammer like Al Sharpton. Dave Chappelle is more in touch with "the black community" than Sharpton.

What is "the black community" anyway?

Offending blacks (or any other group) is the least concern of the Golf Channel- advertisers are. Let's face it, advertising and commercials make the world go 'round.

Thanks to the MEDIA saying the Golf Channel employs a racist, the Golf Channel had to act to show the advertisers that they respect all demographics. This is all about money. As Batman asked in Identity Crisis, "Who benefits?"

Now, is there anything wrong with bowing to advertisers? NO, of course not! But let's just be honest here. IF...IF an advertiser called the Golf Channel and said, "I'm pulling my commercial now" the Golf Channel should have told the MEDIA that. But I doubt any golf advertiser would pull their sponsorship on the GOLF Channel!!

Now the MEDIA doesn't agree with the suspension even though they CAUSED it! You can never please the MEDIA. The just want a STORY and a SPIN to make money on advertising, too!

As far as the magazine editor getting fired for reporting this event, this whole saga is one sick, sad parody!!! Many WHITE "journalists" like to jump on the bandwagon and say how the noose symbolizes the KKK and racism, and that a noose should never be on a golf magazine, since golf has been a racist "sport" for years. Read the freakin' byline on the cover- in what way is the magazine promoting or endorsing racism? What if TIME magazine ran a cover with a swastika with the byline "Is Nazism dead?" It's just a STORY with a visual image for you to buy the magazine!

TONY VAHL SAYS:

More political correctness run amock. More lies.

It's obvious that the PGA Tour pressured Golfweek to fire their editor, even though they claim they wouldn't pull advertising. What. No one is allowed to cover the PGA in a critical manner? Are they ashamed of the country club racism that only recently has begun to go away? I guess they don't want too many reporters investigating Augusta National in Georgia!

And the announcer on the Golf Channel should not have been suspended for two weeks. The MEDIA give Al Sharpton the power he has, and viewers of said MEDIA.

Labels: betrayed, golf, judge, LME, MEDIA, misunderstood, society

posted by DamianHospital @ Saturday, January 19, 2008