Jack's Newswatch

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1. Robert Bedet Says:

   Hi Jack:
   I enjoy your website. I noticed that to-day you have given us O’Reilly’s talking points to listen to.  I hope you will  be publishing this everyday from now on?
   Sincerely yours,
   Robert

   Posted on January 7th, 2010 at 10:30 pm

2. gl1800 Says:

   Hi Jack.
   Check out this web site and watch the video.
   Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of The Atomic Bombs
   Some really good history here.

   http://www.pjtv.com/

   Posted on January 10th, 2010 at 8:52 pm

3. GL1800 Says:

   I don’t have any opinion on Tiger, but I received this email article from the Montreal Gazette and it made me think.
   Don
    
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   Subject: Tiger Woods – A great article from the Montreal Gazette

    

   First of all, let me say quite clearly that I am** not** a fan of Tiger
   Woods. Never have been, never will be. I recognize that he can hit a golf
   ball quite well, for what that’s worth. Lance Armstrong can ride a bike.
   Barry Bonds can hit a baseball. LeBron James can dunk a basketball. That
   doesn’t make any of them heroes. Matter of fact, they’re all about as far
   from being heroes as you can get.

   Tiger Woods is a man whose life is built around greed and a ruthless,
   monomaniacal obsession with winning. No wonder he’s obsessed with acquiring
   mistresses. The man has always had everything he ever wanted. Who is going
   to tell him no? When I read about Woods, all I see is stories about when
   he’s going to return to the PGA Tour, how he’s going to rehab his image (as
   though it’s all about image and nothing else) why he’s likely to come back
   better than ever. No one mentions that this was one twisted, greedy human
   being from the get-go. Tiger Woods is what happens when you turn your child
   into a machine.

   Pity his father, Earl Woods, is no longer around to see the destruction he
   has wrought. The infant who was on television putting against Bob Hope when
   he was 2 years old, the 3-year-old who shot 48 for nine holes, the teenager
   who stepped into a multi-million-dollar Nike contract before he won his
   first pro tournament, has finally broken out of the carefully constructed
   shell. Predictably.

   What Tiger Woods, his father, his handlers and his sponsors failed to
   understand was the simplest of all truths: we are human. We are not robots.
   The human Woods kept trying to break through the robot. We caught glimpses
   and they weren’t pleasant: The petulant child hurling his clubs and swearing
   when a shot goes awry. The swearing. The dirty, leering jokes. The arrogant
   brat who does his famous drive-by every time he passes the autograph hounds
   waiting after round, refusing to do a Phil Mickelson and spend 15 minutes
   signing autographs for the adoring gallery.

   The greedy walking corporation who made it eminently clear from the
   beginning that he didn’t care about the Asian sweatshop workers who were
   turning him into the wealthiest athlete on the planet. The American of mixed
   racial heritage who couldn’t care less about politics at home, where people
   of colour have suffered and bled for 300 years.

   The most outrageous thing I have heard said of Woods came from his father.
   Earl Woods predicted that Tiger would turn out to be one of the great men on
   the planet, like Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Woods is a great golfer, whatever
   that is worth. He is not a great man, by any stretch of the imagination.
   Woods doesn’t begin to measure up to the athletes who were also great
   humans: Jackie Robinson, Jim Thorpe, Bill Russell, Babe Didrickson, Muhammad
   Ali, Jesse Owens, Rocket Richard. They had to fight real hatred and
   prejudice. They suffered real hurt..

   Woods is a shill, nothing more or less. He works for anyone who will pay
   him. He’ll peddle watches, golf balls, automobiles, consulting companies.
   And Woods will not trouble himself for one instant if he learns that a good
   part of his fortune is because of the labours of Asian workers making a few
   dollars a day. That’s not his problem, as long as he can afford to cruise
   off into the sunset on a $20-million yacht named Privacy – a middle finger
   flipped at all the suckers who pay the bills.

   The nearest parallel we have to Woods is Michael Jordan. Jordan was the
   first athlete to go global as a brand rather than as an iconic sports hero.
   He was the first anti-Muhammad Ali, the athlete who didn’t give a damn about
   anything but himself. Jordan refused to take a stand against people like the
   racist South Carolina senator Jesse Helms because racists buy Nikes, too.
   Now Woods has picked up where Jordan left off – and therein lies a
   cautionary tale. What was left of Jordan after his career was over was seen
   in his disgraceful speech when he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of
   Fame. Jordan is now a bitter, angry, vengeful, vindictive man who used his
   Hall of Fame speech to slander all of his rivals and most of his one-time
   friends and teammates..

   Someone wrote to me yesterday to say that “we” have torn down the icon that
   is Tiger Woods. Nothing could be more wrong. “We” might have built Tiger
   Woods into the monster of ego and greed he has become, but “we” had nothing
   to do with tearing him down. Woods did that himself, with his insatiable
   greed, his roving, relentless sexual appetite, his cynical use of his
   beautiful family as props to distract attention from what he was really
   doing.

   In two or three years (if not sooner) most of this will be forgotten. Woods
   will be divorced, he’ll have as many mistresses as he wants, he’ll go back
   to winning majors, raking in millions and endorsing half the products on the
   planet. Why will he get away with it? Because sports fans want someone to
   worship, and the bottom line is that they don’t care if the man inside is
   worse than Tony Soprano.

   If you want to help your children find heroes in the world of sport, stick
   to figures like Tony Dungy, Marc Trestman, Anthony Calvillo, Ben Cahoon,
   Jean Béliveau, Otis Grant, Clara Hughes. Remind your children that when
   Hughes won her gold medal in Turin in 2006, she immediately donated $10,000
   to Right to Play, the charity that attempts to help African children through
   sport. If Tiger Woods was to donate a comparable portion of his personal
   fortune, it would come to $200 million or more. But he won’t do it. That is
   one reason he’s not a hero. Never has been, never will be.

   Because for openers, if you’re not a hero to your own family, you’re
   nothing.

   Posted on January 13th, 2010 at 12:59 pm

4. M.deville Says:

   Hi Jack:
   to be different did you see iggy pointing a fing er at Bourque saying “hey you call me Mr Ign…..(whatever) from now on” shameless piece of worthlessness.

   md

   Posted on January 17th, 2010 at 9:18 pm

5. M.deville Says:

   Pardon me, it should be there you.  (that’s what iggy is saying at Bourque, ) i 
    apologize for misquoting.
   Whenever I see iggy’s picture I don’t think straight.
   md

   Posted on January 17th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

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   Posted on January 30th, 2010 at 11:47 am

7. Jimmy Hauptmann Says:

   Awesome Blog, Mate! I am always on the watch for new and interesting sports sites and info… which is what led me here. I certainly plan on visiting again! Adios

   Posted on February 9th, 2010 at 6:08 am