Tiger’s Press Conference

What a disappointment, the long awaited apology at last, it  was so fake and so staged it was almost comical, sure he used the right words, I lost count of the amount of times he used the word sorry  but  it rang hollow.

He had obviously been coached on body language as well because he kept trying to coincide the word sorry with  a straight at the camera stare, his arrogance was still there as he told the press to leave his wife and kids alone, because none of this was their fault  it was all down to him ( I hadn’t noticed anyone blaming his wife and kids).

So it looks like he is paving the way for a golfing return, he said possibly this year, he thanked at least twice his fellow golfers on the tour and expressed gratitude for all their support, I am not aware of any significant number of players backing him, in fact a few today openly criticised him.

So Tiger wants business as usual when he does grace us with his presence, sorry Tiger I don’t think that’s going to happen.

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Tiger Woods Pathetic

What is Tiger thinking, announcing a press conference right in the middle of a tournament , this is hardly likely to endear him to his fellow pro’s, why could he have not made his announcement Monday, which is normally the day for news conferences in golfing circles.

But like the control freak that Tiger is, even his “apology” is stage managed he will read a prepared statement to a hand picked audience who are not permitted to ask questions, I will be surprised if the whole thing lasts longer than 5 minutes.

This could also be a dig at the tournament sponsors who are Accenture, this company were one of  Tigers biggest sponsors, if that is the case that is childish behaviour from Woods,  Accenture were also the first to drop him when the scandal broke, quite rightly in my opinion, any standing that Tiger had has evaporated in light of what a pathetic man he is in his personal life, Tiger went beyond just having an affair and is in the realms of sleaze.

I believe if and when Tiger plays his first tournament he can be expected to be shunned by a lot of fellow pro’s, and ridiculed by large sections of the gallery’s any respect he had has gone out of the window, and the aura and mystique around the man has followed.

A few pro’s have already publicly criticised him, the latest being Ernie Els, who has been a model pro all his life and never a whiff of anything untoward about him. Ernie has earned the right to comment on Tiger bringing the game into disrepute.

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Bruno Death Threats

Comedian Sacha baron Cohen is having to review his security after receiving death threats from a Palestinian based terror group, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs issued the threats after Cohen ridiculed them in his latest film Bruno.

In the film Cohen interviews the groups leader Ayman Abu Aita who believes the interview is a serious one and does not realise he is being sent up. 

References are made throughout the interview to Homosexuals, Saddam, and Moustache’s all while trying to persuade the group to kidnap him, insisting he only wants to be held hostage by the best terror group around. Now while I don’t have any sympathy for the terrorist group involved here, the references to them in the film are actually very funny, nor do I have any for Cohen who is a highly intelligent man and knew what he was doing when he set this group up for laughs.

After his previous film Borat was released he had to defend against over 200 lawsuits around the world, and some serious threats of  violence from Kazakhstan nationals who felt he made them look like backward peasants in the eyes of the world. But in this day and age and in the current climate it was reckless in the extreme to think that he could get away with attacking the leader on screen before the whole world of one the worst terror groups in the Middle East.

Cohen is already a very wealthy man and did not need to act so foolish to get laughs, what’s the point of being so rich if you spend the rest of your life behind locked gates. With the Kazakhstan threats he smoothed it over with a apology and some sizeable donations to Kazakhstan charity’s, how he charms killers and suicide bombers I don’t know.

Blair Still Haunts us

Details emerging about the Lockerbie bombers release look to embarrass our Government further, it looks like this deal has been in place since 2004 when former Prime Minister Tony Blair made a deal with Colonel Gaddaffi of Libya, to sign a prisoner transfer scheme, paving the way to releasing the only man convicted of involvement in the bombing.

And as expected money is the key, with the promise of opening up Libya to our oil and gas company’s, also the fear that Gaddaffi may turn on Britain as he did to Switzerland,  you may recall that Gaddaffi’s youngest son was arrested in a hotel lobby for allegedly beating his servants, in response Libya cut of all oil supplies to that Country and with drew Billions in cash from their banks.

The Swiss were forced into a grovelling apology, saying that he had been arrested in error and no charges would be brought, Gaddaffi is yet to decide whether to resume supplies to them.

So with this in mind and murmurs of discontent that the British were dragging their heels in arranging the prisoner transfer, the Libyans started to apply pressure. and the end result as the world has seen is the shameful release of a mass murderer.

Blair continues to haunt us, his legacy is a once great Country almost on it’s knee’s having to bow and scrape to third world dictators, I have said it before and will continue to say it, it’s time this Government went.

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Lay Off Brown

Gordon Brown today said he was "mortified" after spelling the name of a fallen soldier incorrectly in a letter of condolence but pledged to continue writing the messages himself.

Far be it for me to defend the Prime Minister but in this instance the criticism is not justified and way over the top, yes he did make a mistake with the spelling of the lads name and also there appeared to be spelling mistakes, but it is widely acknowledged that Brown has terrible eyesight, he is blind in one eye, and he has notoriously bad handwriting.

People should perhaps look at the fact that he does write a handwritten note to the family of every fallen serviceman and I am sure his sentiments are heartfelt, lets find things to attack him about lets not look for sticks to beat him with where none exist.

He has personally apologised to the family, lets let the matter rest now, some critics have called for him to resign and as appealing as that sounds this is not a resigning matter.

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