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Tiger Woods has the long-awaited apology the press and scandal-hungry Americans have been waiting for. Thank you Mr. Woods for coming clean, although you really didn’t need to. You cheated on your wife. You’ve obviously been participating in a recovery program similar to mine. You appear to be putting your life back in order and making amends. That’s none of our business.. but thanks anyway.

What is more important about this whole affair is that it’s diverted us from things that are far more important and newsworthy. Like the deaths of around 100,000 Iraqis that occurred as a result of our unjustified invasion of their country and those that will die tomorrow there and in Afghanistan. Like the number of people whose lives are disrupted by unemployment in our country.

This is the problem with the American media. It focuses our obsessions onto one ultimately unimportant person and not the truly important and life-changing things happening throughout the world that affect all of us.

Or maybe it’s not a problem. It does, after all, sell Viagra, Miller Lite McDonald’s food and whatever the dog is being used to hawk on the commercial before the video. Maybe that’s what it’s all about. Maybe that’s what Tiger’s all about.

Filed under: Politics on February 19th, 2010