News casters made a good point. The longer he waits to say anything the more speculation that will evolve. Yes, his personal business is his own business, but when you're a public figure and an 'icon' like that the public believes it has a right to some sort of explanation.
Frankly, the news casters/media are the ones who caused the entire argument in the first place! I know you're just repeating what they said, but the public believing that they have a right to an explanation is outright absurd. So now because he's famous he gets
less rights to remaining silent and/or privacy than the general public? He is now potentially part of a criminal investigation, so he really shouldn't say anything more. He did give a statement. He said the incident was his fault, and in technicality he's 100% correct, because he is the one who ran out of the house and into a tree. Unless we are about to make some sort of argument that she would have clubbed him to death had he not left, he is responsible for his own actions in a court of law.
phanan's right here i think. whether or not he spoke to police is irrelevant, it doesn't make him look in good in the public eye. because what can you think but "oh, he's refusing to talk to police. surely he would if nothing sinister happened. he must be hiding something."
Well that's what immature people who take what the media gives them like it's the gospel might think, sure. Honestly this incident is revealing alot about people's perceptions of the law and the police. Sometimes the police are not your friend, and it's not necessarily because something sinister has happened. And sometimes even if something sinister has happened, they are not perfect and they can go too far or in the wrong direction or they misinterpret what you say in your 'interview'. That's why the constitution affords you the right to remain silent and only be questioned in the presence of counsel, because it's the fair thing, not because you are necessarily a criminal.
What can I think? I can think that maybe something did go down, sure, but even then the only thing I can think is that he's doing the right thing by exercising his right to protect his family. What sane man wants the mother of his children - by any other account a good woman - to undergo the investigation, media scrutiny, and all the fallout...for that kind of minor incident? Maybe he'll end up being sorry for this decision when she hires a hit man or some shit, but I'd like to think that he knows her better than anyone and when he should call it a day with her if it came to that.
EDIT: Maybe it looks like I care too much about this. It's not from any special love for Tiger, it's just that I've always been bugged by the notion that we somehow have a 'right' to know all about what celebrities do. What part of this situation do we really have a 'right' to know about? He has stated that the accident was his fault and that the rumours were completely untrue. So what more do we have a right to know? Whether or not they argued and what about? Whether or not she bitch slapped him? Whether or not he would have hit her had he stayed, so he left to cool off? Whether or not she broke his window before or after he hit the tree? How is it his responsibility to satisfy this 'right to know' about those details when those details in themselves have nothing to do with
his relationship with his fans, his game or even more remotely, his sponsors? Then he's not really the one who should be viewed with suspicion for not saying anything, is he? Or is it more accurately: Did you sleep with her? Did you have a drink with her at a club? THAT is what the 'public' wants to know, and by trying to turn it into a domestic assault case that needs explaining, the police are pandering to the pressure of the gossip media. That's likely why the cooler heads at his sponsors aren't dropping him - because outside being drunk or high or speeding, there's nothing inherently evil or publicly damning about having a minor car accident
for him.
Oh wow, that's pretty rich.
Dalton was right, the case is dead. The US Weekly story won't change that.
