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The theme this week seems to be white liberal baby boomers expect minorities who've made it to be without sin. And woe behold any idol who has feet of clay.... Maureen Dowd's Sunday column lambastes Tiger Woods and Desiree Rogers. She purportedly condemns them for their stonewalling and failing to admit mistakes. But reading that article, the hidden meme seems to be "people who don't look like me who think they're better than me and now I can attack"
Some select quotes from Ms. Maureen Dowd /The New York Times
They presumptuously put themselves beyond authority...
Tiger Woods and Desiree Rogers are perfectionist high-achievers brought low.
Like so many politicians before him, Tiger ignored the obvious rule: Never get involved with women who have 8-by-10 glossies.
She mistook herself for the principal, sashaying around and posing in magazines as though she were the first lady, rather than a staffer whose job is to stay behind the scenes and make her bosses look good.
All the news this week has been overly absorbed with Tiger Woods. From NY Times to the Huffington Post, traditional liberal bastions can't get away from their schadenfreude about the barrier-breaking, % African-American who had gasp an affair. Why has this generated so much press and even Opinion columns? Maureen Dowd makes him into a pseudo-politician "Like so many politicians before him...." so that she can attack him, but Ms. Dowd, wake up: He's not an elected official and he did nothing illegal, but he's getting as much press as Blago. She holds him to a higher standard than white sports athletes (I don't remember an equivalent column about Tom Brady....). And somehow the NY Times thinks this is Opinion page worthy??
Ms. Dowd namecalls Ms. Rogers and Mr. Woods as divas: "the golf diva and the social diva mistakenly think the rules need not apply to them." And I'm shaking my head to try and find some diva'esque behavior of Mr. Woods: From what I see, he's tried to stay low to save his wife from being arrested for domestic battery -- a true diva would have called the cops and the Paparazzi to milk public sympathy. Regardless, this isn't Opinion page worthy!
About Desiree Rogers (included in Ms. Dowd's column as a diva who doesn't know her place): Ms. Dowd even says, "The smart thing would have been for Desiree to sail up to Congress, wearing designer sackcloth and pearls of remorse, apologize for the oversight at her first state dinner and promise it wouldn’t happen again." Ms. Dowd, sackcloth reminds me too much of a slave's rags!
Ms. Dowd ends her article with the next minority in her cross-hairs, "Now all we have left to look up to is Derek Jeter."
From Ms. Dowd's column and the rest of the media hysteria about Desiree Rogers and Tiger Woods, it's clear that although we've elected Obama, we are not yet a country of equality.