John Dowling
Thank you, John, sincerely, and the best of the season to you also.
I’ve read the link you sent me,
with interest, but I don’t see that it matches my comments. I referred to the way that the Tiger Woods case has been portrayed by the media, while Scott Lawton is discussing the actions of law enforcement in relation to it. However, having read the piece, it occurs to me that if the police in the UK went to a hospital and demanded blood test results for any patient, let alone one who had been involved in a very minor car accident within a gated community, with no third-party involvement, they would be told to go away until they had a court order. Even if they got one, and in Scotland that would be long odds against, those results would probably be useless in court because of the circumstances in which they were taken. I know that US law is different, and I’m not saying that it’s wrong, but I don’t really believe that Scott Lawton has a case.
To come back to my post of a couple of days ago, today I had the misfortune to read one of the most disgraceful pieces of journalism I have seen in many a moon, written by a man (I refrain from calling him a gentleman) named Mark Reason and published in the Daily Telegraph, a broadsheet that was highly regarded by many in the UK, before it lost its soul. John, I hesitate to give this **** a wider audience, but I will, because I believe that it makes my point, that we are seeing the international media persecution of an individual on an almost unprecedented scale. How long will it be before he’s linked to Al Qaeda, and 9/11?
Finally, I read today that Gatorade has cancelled its deal with Tiger Woods. I’m still laughing at that one . . . although Gatorade won’t be in four months, when he wins the Masters drinking Lucozade isotonic. If anyone is stupid enough to give up a sports drink because the man promoting it has had an extramarital affair, they probably should anyway, and switch to something with a higher Omega 3 content. I doubt if the man will care too much. Consider this. How much is his endorsement worth to the makers of Viagra?
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