Calling Xultar, it seems the golf community is still playing with lynching, the cover of "Golfweek"

[wndycty]

Thanks for bringing the lynching issue up the other week. It seems we have work to do! Yikes!



This is in response to the Kelly Tilghman/Tiger Wood's lynching incident and its worse.

I'm not sure what type of SIMPLE IDIOTS are running this magazine, jeeze.

Golfweek noose elicits strong reaction

By DOUG FERGUSON, AP Golf Writer 2 hours, 1 minute ago

The editor of Golfweek magazine said he was overwhelmed by negative reaction to the photo of a noose on the cover of this week's issue, illustrating a story about the suspension of a Golf Channel anchor for using the word "lynch" in an on-air discussion about how to beat Tiger Woods.

"We knew that image would grab attention, but I didn't anticipate the enormity of it," Dave Seanor, vice president and editor of the weekly magazine, said from the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla.

"There's been a huge, negative reaction," he said. "I've gotten so many e-mails. It's a little overwhelming."

Among the critics was PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, who said he found the imagery to be "outrageous and irresponsible."
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080118/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_magazine_cover

[TooBigaTent]

1. Talk about an irrelevant group of people - golfers are the epitome of the deluded,

monied, gated-community mind-set that is Shrub's "have-more" base. They do not have influence but represent the worst characteristics of human greed.

[NeedleCast]

4. That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with buddy

I am fond of playing gold despite the fact that I suck at it. It's a good way to enjoy time outdoors with friends. None of us live in monied, gated-communities, have country club memberships or go around with polo sweaters tied at our waists.

[TooBigaTent]

5. Behind every stereotype is a grain, or boulder, of truth. Of course, it does not

hold for EVERY member of a group, but for the most part, those who are most into the game are the most regressive. Pro golfers and the PGA are the most right-wing of the various sports groups around, except maybe the yachting crowd.

[NeedleCast]

7. Perhpas, but your statement was

golfers are the epitome of the deluded, monied, gated-community...

and I think you're being pretty unfair here, as just about every golfer I know is a middle-class, public course player who wears jeans and a 15 dollar button down from Old Navy when they play. The pro side of the sport might accurately reflect your statement, but that holds true of just about every professional sport.

[SidDithers]

19. Pro golfers, are a bit different from other professional athletes...

in that their earnings come, for the most part, from winnings, rather than from guaranteed contracts.

If a baseball player has a bad year, they still get their coin. If a pro golfer doesn't make the cut in a tournament, they don't get paid.

Now, certainly, appearance fees and sponsorship dollars are a bigger source of income for golfers than they used to be. But the earnings of pro golfers are more directly related to their week-to-week performance, than other pro athletes.

Sid

[spanone]

8. really...what a narrow minded, paint everyone with the same stroke comment

[Oilwellian]

11. Good grief

I know several DU'ers who are avid golfers...me being one of them. I don't think any of us are "irrelevant" and we certainly don't represent the characteristics of human greed. That's a mighty high horse you speak from.

[blondeatlast]

13. That's a mighty big brush you are wielding. Careful you don't paint yourself with it accidentally.

I'm no golfer but geez.

[JVS]

15. It's a lame game, but other than liking a lame game I don't think golfers have any particular issues

I know lots of regular people who like to golf.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. An Opinion Worthy Of Utter Dismissal

I'm a golfer. I don't live in a gated community. I'm not greedy. And i loathe Silverspoon and his mob at least as much as you.

You have no idea about which you speak.
The Professor

[LanternWaste]

20. I don't have money...

I don't have money, I don't live in a gated community. I'm part of the have-less base of the left. I represent only myself and I play a pretty good (decent... o-kay-- adequate) game of golf at the municipal courses, averaging a 102.

Just as a head's-up-- You may want to avoid the sweeping and overly broad generalizations. :hi:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. One can assume, from this picture and incident...

That lime-green, plaid polyester pants rot the brain.

[panader0]

3. Don't you know black people can't play golf? Or Swim?

Or play quarterback? :sarcasm:

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Yeah. Just Ask Jimmy The Greek Or Al Campanis

The Professor

[NightWatcher]

6. and they say that golfers are elitist rich white people....

Come on, Augusta recently started letting the 'coloreds' play there...


Golf is a waste of resources, land, water, and polyester

[blondeatlast]

9. If they'd accompany that cover with Lady Day singing "Strange Fruit" I'd let it go, maybe.

Lewis Allen

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

[Gold Metal Flake]

10. Huh? It's just an noose. How can that be racist? duh...

"We knew that image would grab attention, but I didn't anticipate the enormity of it,"



On the other hand, maybe he DID know "the enormity of it". They speak in code, y'know.

[blondeatlast]

12. "Tilghman "slips up..." says the headline. No, you dolts, she said something hideously offensive.

I'm a WASP suburban soccer mom. Some words are taboo--including that one and therefore you just don't say them.

Fucking clueless, Bushlicking, fat, dumb, happy bigots.

[karlrschneider]

18. Huh? The WORD is taboo?

jeezusfuckingchrist...
:eyes:

[southpaw]

14. What's the difference between a weasel and a republican?

Weasels don't play golf!

[earth mom]

21. My gut reaction to that photo is disgust.

:puke:

[NightWatcher]

22. Editor responsible (and VP) has been fired

ORLANDO, Fla. — One day after PGA Tour executives threatened to pull their advertising because of a racially insensitive cover graphic of a noose, Golfweek magazine replaced its longtime editor and vice president, Dave Seanor.

http://www.golf.com/golf/tours_news/article/0,28136,1704872,00.html