Thursday, January 10, 2008

Tilghman's slip of the tongue

Anyone who has ever watched Golf Channel coverage of the PGA TOUR knows that Kelly Tilghman lives by the slogan "why say in five words what you can say in a dozen?"  She's very overdramatic both with her tone and with her vocabulary.  Always has been - even back in her GolfCentral days.  Given this experience, you have to give her quite a bit of slack about her wretched lynching reference regarding Tig.  She surely didn't mean it literally.  And even though it took her a couple of days to fess up on the air and reach out to Tig, I cannot believe she was expressing a racist point of view here.  Judge this comment against the dozens of dramatic comments she makes on the telecasts each week.  This one was bad and a suspension and disciplinary action is warranted, but not to the point of costing her this job. 

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