FITS Evening Post: Tiger, “Historical,” BCS Spinning

Twice in one week? What’s gotten into us …

After a month-long break, the semi-regular FITS Evening Post is back for the second time in four days, bringing you another random assemblage of stories we wanted to write about more extensively today but for whatever reason didn’t get around to …

It’s a big world and your time is valuable, so here goes …

TIGER WOODS

CASHING IN ON INFIDELITY – Tiger Woods is reportedly going to pay $60 million on top of an existing $20 million prenuptial agreement to Elin Nordegren, a woman who is not likely to ever let him touch her naked body again. All this so the two can remain “married” for the next five-to-seven years?  You’ve got to be kidding us … (The Daily Beast – read)

CASHING IN ON HOMEWRECKING – Rachel Uchitel, one of three women with whom Tiger Woods is alleged to have had an extramarital affair, canceled a press conference scheduled for Thursday amid rumors of frantic negotiations with Woods’ representatives.  One source even alleges that the New York party planner was offered $1 million to remain silent. (Radar Online – read)

CASHING IN ON LOYALTY – Woods mysterious car crash and subsequent PR unraveling aren’t hurting him with his major advertisers … at least not yet. (ABC – read)

AMERICA

PROUD PEACOCK SOLD – The sale of a majority stake of NBC to internet provider Comcast is raising all sorts of red flags in Washington, although it’s doubtful there’s enough of an anti-trust issue to block the sale. That means there should be no hitch in paying those enormous tanning bed bills for anchor Brian Williams. (Marketwatch – read).

DON’T HOLD BACK, JERRY – Barack Obama gets verbally raped by the Germans over his Afghanistan speech. “Obama’s magic no longer works,” the newsweekly Der Spiegel writes. “The American president doesn’t need any opponents at the moment. He’s already got himself.”  (Der Spiegel – read)

CLIMATE CRAP SANDWICH – For the longest time, we had fallen hook, line and sinker for the climate change argument. We believed that global warming was real, and that concerted government action was required to reverse it.  Now, we’re not so sure, and it’s not just all of the deleted data and those leaked emails and documents from climate change “scientists.”  We’re talking about serious articles like this one from MIT scientist Richard S. Lindzen that lay out the data against climate change quite plainly. (Wall Street Journal – read)

GOVERNMENT MOTORS UPDATE – The first-ever “government-appointed” CEO of a major American automaker lasted just eight months on the job. Nice to know our taxpayer billions are in such good hands … (Fortune – read)

TRUTH IN HEADLINES – Sometimes a headline tells you everything you need to know … (USA Today – read)

GOOD STUFF

THAT’S HISTORICAL - In case you were wondering when you should use “historic” versus “historical,” then this article is for you. (Grammar Girl – read)

THE BODY HOLDS BACK – For a minute there, we thought former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura was going to kill this little loudmouth. He didn’t, but this is still an amusing clip … (TMZ -watch)

HERE’S A PLAN – Check out the book this West Point cadet was reading while waiting for President Barack Obama to give his big speech on the Afghan War expansion earlier this week.  Of course if you’ve seen Richard Gere’s unsung gem The Hunting Party, you know the drill when it comes to “high value” terrorism targets … (Yahoo – look)

S.C. POLITICS

NEWSPAPER COMPLICITY – A mainstream media outlet covering for a bunch of corrupt politicians? Couldn’t be.  Wait … it’s La Socialista, you say?  Well then … (The Garnet Spy – read)

EX-JOCK RUNS FOR SC GOVERNOR – Some random businessman and former football player from Irmo, S.C. is mounting a write-in campaign for governor of South Carolina. Morgan Bruce Reeves says people hate career politicians and he’s going to tour the state in an RV collecting signatures to prove it! (Associated Press -read)

READING IS HARD – What do you do when 20% of your high school freshman can’t read at a fourth grade level? If you’re the notoriously incompetent Charleston, S.C. public school system the answer is easy … hire more educrats! (The Voice – read)

SCHLOBBING LINDSEY’S KNOB – Which “media outlet” exceeds even the fawning MSM when it comes to performing “journalistic” fellatio on U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham?  That’s easy … it’s The Palmetto Scoop, the blog which subsists off of the cash that it receives from Graham’s political consulting firm, Richard Quinn and Associates.  Just read this nonsense praising Graham’s “statesmanship and leadership – two things that set Graham apart from a lot of other elected officials …” and then go vomit. (The Palmetto Scoop -read)

SPORTS

PROPS TO SHELLEY – While the Gamecock football program continues to define mediocrity (and suffer from flagging attendance), at least one University of South Carolina coach has actually built a program that’s competing at a high level nationally.  Her name?  Shelley Smith, coach of USC’s women’s soccer team.  Smith was named the NSCAA South Region Coach of the Year earlier this week after guiding the Gamecocks to a 19-4-2 record, the best in program history.  Oh, attendance at Stone Stadium is up, too … even in this bum economy. Go figure … (USC Sports – read)

BCS SPINNER – We couldn’t believe it when we saw it either, but former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer has been hired to shill for the hated Bowl Championship Series. Guess that means we’ll get a Division I-A college playoff just as soon as they find those weapons of mas destruction in Iraq … (The Daily Beast – read)

KARMA ALERT – After the New England Patriots’ unprecedented collapse against Indianapolis two weeks ago and Monday night’s blowout loss to the Saints, the hand-wringing has officially begun with respect to three-time Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick. Frankly, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.  (Boston Herald – read)

STAR STUFF

YOU DON’T SAY – After “Family Ties,” Meredith Baxter Birney made her living by playing interchangeable man-haters in virtually indistinguishable movies on the Lifetime Channel.  Is it really all that surprising, then, to find out that she prefers the taco to the sausage? (Buddy TV – read)

STILL PERRYTACULAR – No matter what goes wrong in the world, there are always Katy Perry’s gargantuan breasts and the creative ensembles which daily fight a losing battle to reign them in. Those sweater monkeys are “more human than huu-man,” people. (The Superficial – look)

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