Racism. Definitely racism.

Because nobody looks up to Charlie Sheen.

Bathia_Mapes: Maybe it's because Charlie Sheen's wife and/or girlfriend (whatever the fark she is) was drunk when she called 911 & later recanted.

Done in one.

And let's not forget how tiger completely farked his chance to make this all go away by going "Hurr, this is family business so I'm not gonna talk about my suspicious as hell car accident."

What did Tiger do NOW?!?

Because Charlie is white?

D'oh!

I don't thing Tiger will be crucified. I think we'll see him on the tour when it begins on Jan 07 2010.

Much cheering will be expected, because no one cares about his personal life.

Pretty much dead on. Had a job at Blockbuster for almost 6 years, started out as a good employee, then just slowly lowered expectations. Got to where I could wander in late or hungover (spent a couple days huddled in the drop box) and no one even cared. But if my friend did she'd have to go have a talk or got a write up. Fun times when everyone working at a place ends up friends.

/cool story? sure why not.

America thinks of Charlie Sheen like his character on 2&1/2 men. A loveable scoudrel.

Charlie Sheen was a known bad boy, so this story is nothing new. Tiger tried to be the shining boy and got his butt handed to him because the public hates hypocrites.

Because golf sucks and Hot Shots was funny?

If by crucified, you mean having about a billion dollars, a yacht, a multi million dollar house or 10, and one's choice of beautiful women despite running out on your wife and kids, well then Ol' Tiger sure did take it in the shorts. Comparatively.

If Tiger had owned up to what he did from the very beginning, it wouldn't have been as big a deal as it became. It would have been news, but not blown out of proportion. But since he denied it, the media smelled blood.

At least with Charlie you know what you're getting.

Forget about Sheen - what about Letterman. Dave got caught for precisely the same "transgressions" (and I'm guessing Dave got far more play over the years with girls a fraction of his age) and his ratings actually went up. Dave is an avuncular old white guy, Tiger is a younger black dude with an appetite for white women - guess who gets a pass from puritanical America?

Enfenestrate: Because we all already know that Charlie Sheen is a douche?

Douche would be putting it nicely.

Of course Tiger had a goody two-shoes reputation.

So basically it the case of man bites dog getting more press than dog bites man.

Well that and the fact that Tiger is a far bigger celebrity than Sheen has.

But in the end, what Tiger did was not illegal or uncommon. I don't know very many people who are not religious nuts. If Sheen did what was alleged and it can be proven, then he should face some very serious consequences in criminal justice system. Meanwhile I am sure that Tiger will eventually recover as a damn good golfer and mostly a good guy who is human like the rest of us and not beyond temptation. Sheen has no hope of rising to Tiger's eventual "fallen" status.

Dredge: Forget about Sheen - what about Letterman.

Letterman was no real surprise. Several women had gone to the tabloids in the past and they came out again when the story went through the wringer a second time. The surprise was that he admitted it on live television - that's the difference. Tiger is in a sex addiction clinic after a month of the controversy with few public comments outside of the Internet. Step up and admit it and little controversy lingers over the issue.

pkellmey
I don't understand why everyone is demanding that Tiger "step up and admit" anything. It really is between himself and his family. We don't have laws regarding infidelity in this country. He didn't let me down.
If you had an affair, can you imagine your friends or coworkers or people from your neighborhood coming to you and saying something like "why couldn't just have been honest with us? why didn't you just step up and admit it?" No - if that happened, your reaction would likely be something like "What the fark are you talking about? It isn't any of your business." So why is the public owed an apology or some sort of explanation in this case? Because he is a role model? BS. Like I said - it is all just a bunch of puritanical busy bodies who want to inject themselves into a private matter. If anything, I'd say Tiger took the right approach - that is until he decided to check himself into this ridiculous sex rehab clinic.

BlameBush: If by crucified, you mean having about a billion dollars, a yacht, a multi million dollar house or 10, and one's choice of beautiful women despite running out on your wife and kids, well then Ol' Tiger sure did take it in the shorts. Comparatively.

I liked that his "nervous breakdown" was described as sitting in the house, drinking and watching cartoons. If that's a breakdown, I've been ready for the nuthouse for at least a decade.

TheMysteriousStranger: But in the end, what Tiger did was not illegal

Wrong. Adultery is illegal in 26 states (as of 1997), including being a felony in four of those states. I know for a fact that it is still illegal in at least one state.

Not saying that it is a just law (or one that is even enforced with any regularity, but it does get enforced occasionally.

cause he's friends with Jordan

I loved him in "Wall Street"

I still think his brother should change his name to Emilio Sheen.

Dredge: Forget about Sheen - what about Letterman. Dave got caught for precisely the same "transgressions" (and I'm guessing Dave got far more play over the years with girls a fraction of his age) and his ratings actually went up. Dave is an avuncular old white guy, Tiger is a younger black dude with an appetite for white women - guess who gets a pass from puritanical America?

BS... ya know what? No one really gives two farks about any of them. Just because all the news outlets wet themselves with glee and run the stories 24 hours a day doesn't make anybody give two farks either.

When the Letterman story first broke Dave came right out and said, "Yeah, I farked her. So what?"

The Woods thing keeps going because Tiger keeps having press conferences which start out "Ok, *this time* I'm gonna really tell ya the truth..." followed by the most absurd BS story possible.

Dredge: Forget about Sheen - what about Letterman. Dave got caught for precisely the same "transgressions" (and I'm guessing Dave got far more play over the years with girls a fraction of his age) and his ratings actually went up. Dave is an avuncular old white guy, Tiger is a younger black dude with an appetite for white women - guess who gets a pass from puritanical America?

Bull farking shiat.

1). Letterman got off because he came clean more or less right away, and Tiger let the media circus drag on and on and on. The first rule of crisis communications is get out in front of the story and control it. Letterman did that, Tiger didn't.

2). People LIKED Tiger way more than they ever liked Letterman, whom everyone knows is an irascible prick. Tiger had further to fall.

3). Tiger slept with trashy chicks when he had a model wife at home. If anything, it's not a race issue, it's a class issue.

Because Sheens entire rep and public persona has been that hes a sleazy douche all along.

This story is just another in a long line of them for Charlie.

Tiger was supposed to be squeaky clean and now we find out he shouldve been hanging with Sheen the whole time.

Lionel Mandrake: How strange it must be to care about the lives of celebrities...

Behold the furure (new window)

I'm giving them both a free pass. Letterman, Clinton, and the rest of them, too. Their marital problems are none of my business & consequently, I don't care who they nail, or how often. Don't even really wanna know about it, actually.

Loving this quote:

"Finally, I saw one blog post that said Sheen will be treated differently than Woods because Sheen is white. In fact, Sheen's real name is Carlos Irwin Estévez, and his grandfather on his dad's side is from Spain."

Umm. yeah. Writer thinks that spain = non-white.

Writer fails.

1492 - Whites from Spain, discover brown people. Promptly begin conquering, pillaging, and impregnating and renaming all brown people to have spanish surnames. This did not turn the people in Spain dark.

What exactly is a 'free pass'? and how exactly did Tiger get 'crucified'?

People TALKED about Tiger, because they care about him. Because he is a likable guy. I haven't heard a whole lot of badmouthing... but talking sure.

People aren't talking about Charlie because he's not a great guy. Most people in their heads, don't hold him in high regard.

T.rex: What exactly is a 'free pass'? and how exactly did Tiger get 'crucified'?

People TALKED about Tiger, because they care about him. Because he is a likable guy. I haven't heard a whole lot of badmouthing... but talking sure.

People aren't talking about Charlie because he's not a great guy. Most people in their heads, don't hold him in high regard.

Came here to say this.

T.rex: What exactly is a 'free pass'? and how exactly did Tiger get 'crucified'?

People TALKED about Tiger, because they care about him. Because he is a likable guy. I haven't heard a whole lot of badmouthing... but talking sure.

People aren't talking about Charlie because he's not a great guy. Most people in their heads, don't hold him in high regard.

I'd hate to meet the kind of people who look up to Charlie Sheen. Those are some pretty low standards.

Demetrius 2009-12-30 11:38:32 PM I'm kinda hoping Charlie Sheen goes to jail for a while on this one.
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Considering Brooke mostly recanted the story and was drunk as hell, doubt it.

Charlie has been blamed for a lot of things and has never even been to TRIAL for any of them (except for drugs in the 80s). People tend to blame him for a lot of things that apparently aren't true.

He's still a douche, sure, but he's not a criminal :)

One is a laughable rascal and the other one... well, I don't need a 48 hrs fark time-out right now.

Sheen makes no effort to conceal the type of person he is. He digs hookers, blow, and makes little to no effort to conceal these facts. When confronted with these facts he shrugs his shoulders and asks, "So?"

Woods is a liar who has spent millions of dollars attempting to conceal the type of person he is for the purpose of maintaining a clean image so he can make even more money. He's a product.

joeshill

"Finally, I saw one blog post that said Sheen will be treated differently than Woods because Sheen is white. In fact, Sheen's real name is Carlos Irwin Estévez, and his grandfather on his dad's side is from Spain."

Umm. yeah. Writer thinks that spain = non-white.

Writer fails.

1492 - Whites from Spain, discover brown people. Promptly begin conquering, pillaging, and impregnating and renaming all brown people to have spanish surnames. This did not turn the people in Spain dark.

Thank you for saying that. The writer is a complete idiot.