Tiger Woods Domestic Violence Cover-Up Plot Line Introduced By TMZ

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by Steve Krakauer | 10:03 am, November 28th, 2009

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As more details emerged about the circumstances of the Tiger Woods car crash, the more suspicions were raised that there may be more to the story.

Now TMZ.com has blown the reported version of events wide open – alleging domestic violence led to the injuries, and the car crash was used as a cover up.

Early this morning, TMZ reports Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren were involved in a physically violent fight:

We’re told he said his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. The argument got heated and, according to our source, she scratched his face up. We’re told it was then Woods beat a hasty retreat for his SUV — but according to our source, Woods says his wife followed behind with a golf club. As Tiger drove away, she struck the vehicle several times with the club

He hit the fire hydrant after becoming distracted, according to TMZ. The reason he appeared “semi-unconscious,” as the Windermere police chief said on CNN last night (video below), is explained by TMZ as because Woods “had been taking prescription pain medication for an injury.”

Before we go any further, it should be noted TMZ has a history of being completely right sometimes about their exclusive breaking stories – and sometimes gets it completely wrong.

The timing of the accident was already suspicious, coming just days after the usually flawless PR record of Woods was being mired in some level of controversy. The National Enquirer reported Woods was having an affair with New York club hostess Rachel Uchitel – a storyline that this morning has become part of the Associated Press‘ story. The AP reached out to Uchitel, and she denied the affair, but this quote doesn’t exactly sound like a denial: “I resent my reputation is getting completely blasted in the media…Everyone is assuming I came out and said this. This is not a story I have anything to do with.”

So how did this story’s topspin land it away from the truth? Jason Whitlock, columnist for FoxSports.com and frequent contrarian sports writer, tweets, “U think Tiger is real happy w/ESPN’s ‘seriously injured’ report that blew this thing out of proportion? Worldwide misleader.”

If ESPN initially reported “seriously injured” while simultaneously buying 100% the Woods spokesperson party line, as well as the public statements from the police, they have changed their tune a bit. Bob Harig‘s column is getting front page play, which questions what happened in the accident, but the majority asks what would happen if the injury were more serious, and not what would happen if the truth were more hurtful to Woods’ reputation. ESPN is reporting Woods will meet with police again today – more details are likely to emerge. If TMZ has any of the story right, this story will bubble up to mainstream media status very shortly.

Here’s the CNN report from Anderson Cooper 360 last night:

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Puter Boi

The problem with TMZ is that when they are correct…the bellow it to the world…when they are wrong…they scurry away like rats from a burning barn. They act like their mistakes never happened. They never admit their mistakes and never apologize for the wreckage left behind.
Heck…Harvey Levin won’t even apologize for that toupe. Looks like a dead muskrat layin up there.
Jim R

The MSM and cable reporting was implausible from the start.

I don’t necessarily fault them for reporting what the Tiger spokesman and police had to say, though, but with Tiger’s corporate image on the line here I don’t expect the real story to come from CNN or certainly The Golf Channel.

He’s going to have to divulge more than he’d like to in order to maintain some sheen of credibility soon, especially now that the online resorces are burrowing in on the truth.

Despite the fact he’s one of the world’s most recognizable personalities Tiger and Elin deserve and will probably request some degree of privacy into their personal affairs after they get thier story straight.

And yes, this is a worthy story; even if you hate golf.
winston_wolfe

The problem here is that TMZ simply ran with a theory that many golf bloggers were talking & writing about right after the accident. TMZ simply has built up enough of a following in the sensationalized entertainment news area to be able to stake claim to this as their own when really it had been floating around out there for hours before they wrote about it.

As for the incident itself, let’s face it, it’s highly probable that Tiger & his wife had an argument after she confronted him with the rumors, on Thanksgiving night of all nights, he may have even confirmed they were true and his wife went into a rage. She chased him out of the house into the night where he jumped into an Escalade and to avoid her damaging his favorite ride, he peeled out, took a hydrant out , and then smacked into the tree.

An elite athelete does not back out of his own driveway, something he has done hundreds upon hundreds of times and hit a fire hydrant AND a tree unless there was a mitigating circumstance. Alcohol & drugs were ruled out so the only other factor in the scenario was his wife. Easy story.
SWWT

It’s really easy to assume that there was some sort of domestic dispute. Really easy.

But the whole prescription drug angle presents a whole other slew of possibilities. At this point it could really be anything.
TfT

Well,. CNN is reporting that Tiger did NOT meet with the police today, delayed until tomorrow. AND, it was also reported that the so-called “other woman” has denied, denied and denied any affair with Tiger and has hired Gloria Allred as her legal counsel now.
jimmymaher

Ah, oh. It’s good to know that Tiger Woods cannot be blamed for his actions. It’s all HIS WIFE’S fault and the PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION he was taking. He’s still the same old innocent, charming fellow we thought he was.Nothing to see here; move along now…
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