For all the ridiculousness spouted by Michael Wilbon, and all the crap I've given him for it on this here series of tubes, I want to point out when I think he's done well. In his chat at the Washington Post's website on Monday, he did well.
The question isn't so important (he doesn't really answer it anyway), but here is Wilbon's take on Tiger and the media's coverage (its a long quote, but worth reading):
Michael Wilbon: I'm sick and tired of people in the media, my dear friends Boz and Sally [Washington Post writers who were mentioned in the question] included, acting like they are experts all the damn time on what's real or not, telling people how to act, what to do, what questions to answer, whom to sleep with. I'm tired of it. I'm offended -- and now I'm not talking about Boz or Sally--by people I KNOW to be philandering hypocrites going on television and talking about how Tiger should live his life when they've indulged in the exact same behavior. You can see it on every network, trust me. I've hung out with some of these guys (and women). I KNOW what they've done and how they live their lives. You would think this is the first guy in the history of America to have affairs. Men and women have been cheating on their spouses for the entire history of civilization, and now Tiger Woods...he's the guy! He's the one! His is the worst cheating in the history of the world? It's the most sickening media behavior I've ever seen and it has a lynch-mob mentality. I really shouldn't even talk much about it because I'm going to be so angry. And just to reiterate my position: Tiger Woods' behavior, like that of any philandering person, is between him and his family, and in his case because he allowed himself to be marketed in a certain way, some of his sponsors. It's none of my business, just like it's none of my business if one of my producers or editors or fellow reporters or my second cousin was philandering. That's probably my last word today on this because I've got the faces in my head of certain hypocrites who somehow feel that their cheating ways are okay and his aren't.
That's what I wanted to say the other day but couldn't. I'm still going to call Wilbon out when I think he needs it (not that he or anyone else is paying attention, but still), but that answer is so right on that it deserves a mention in a place usually reserved for name calling and poop jokes.
Good show, Wilbon.
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