"Kelly Tilghman to Damage Control, I think I've made a mistake, over"..."Damage Control to Kelly Tilghman, yes you have, over".
Commentator for the Golf Channel had more than a slip of the tongue the other day when she remarked the young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back Alley". Such a poor choice of words for this lady. The outcry has been astounding. Not to mention the precedents that have been laid forth so to speak. Um, remember Don Imus and his remarks about the Rutgers Women basketball team. Just what happened to Imus. Oh yeah, he got fired!
The Golf Channel is reporting that Kelly apologized for her recent statement both privately with Tiger Woods and on Air. So where does her fate lie now. Is she going to be reprimanded? Will she be next firing for crude remarks like Imus was? I don't think so.
Yes she's screwed up. Yes she made a mistake, a big mistake. Yes she's made both formal and informal apologies to the public and Tiger. But will that keep her. No. Here's what will. Tilghman will remain as the face for the Golf Channel. History was made not that long ago by her becoming golf's first female lead announcer. To much face to save. The Golf Channel has way too much invested in her. Will she be ridiculed? Absolutely and probably for some time. Tiger will likely accept her apology but never forget her remarks and move on, too much pressure on this cooker. It's not like the Fuzzy comments.
Personally, I think she should resign myself. Not likely though, the Golf Channel will get so much press out of this matter, their ratings will likely sky rocket even further.
Commentator for the Golf Channel had more than a slip of the tongue the other day when she remarked the young players should "lynch Tiger Woods in a back Alley". Such a poor choice of words for this lady. The outcry has been astounding. Not to mention the precedents that have been laid forth so to speak. Um, remember Don Imus and his remarks about the Rutgers Women basketball team. Just what happened to Imus. Oh yeah, he got fired!
The Golf Channel is reporting that Kelly apologized for her recent statement both privately with Tiger Woods and on Air. So where does her fate lie now. Is she going to be reprimanded? Will she be next firing for crude remarks like Imus was? I don't think so.
Yes she's screwed up. Yes she made a mistake, a big mistake. Yes she's made both formal and informal apologies to the public and Tiger. But will that keep her. No. Here's what will. Tilghman will remain as the face for the Golf Channel. History was made not that long ago by her becoming golf's first female lead announcer. To much face to save. The Golf Channel has way too much invested in her. Will she be ridiculed? Absolutely and probably for some time. Tiger will likely accept her apology but never forget her remarks and move on, too much pressure on this cooker. It's not like the Fuzzy comments.
Personally, I think she should resign myself. Not likely though, the Golf Channel will get so much press out of this matter, their ratings will likely sky rocket even further.
3 comments:
Rev. Al Sharpton needs to get off his high horse and check his facts. He said the word "lynch" had racist connotations and a racist meaning, which came as a massive suprise to me, since I always thought it referred to mob "justice", wherein a bunch of people murder someone else without due legal process.
A quick check shows that Merriam Webster agrees with this definition ( http://www.webster.com/dictionary/lynch）and what we now see is that Kelly Tilghman is herself becoming the victim of a mob-mentality injustice. Someone jumps up and says she's being racist, and other people jump on the bandwagon. Anyone with an ounce of sense could see that she was simply making a joke about how Tiger Woods is so good that the only way for his peers to beat him would be to physically take him out of the game.
This is just "much ado about nothing." Maybe it is because I am not an American, and do not appreciate the racist connotation "lynching" implies, but I thought Ms Tilghman certainly doesn't seem aware of it. And to compare her to Imus???? Accept her apology and get on with it.
I agree with Steve, I think she said it all a little tongue-in-cheek. But Nick, you tell me what the difference is between what Kelly Tilghman said and say what Don Imus said or even Fuzzy Zoeler said? I don't think there's really a difference and it all occured on a "national" type stage?
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