Golf Channel sportscaster fired for offensive remarks regarding Tiger Woods

[TB4000]

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-golfchannel-anchor&prov=ap&type=lgns

Man, what in the hell?

[Zdrav]

Is this a case of lapse in judgment (after all, a lot of people use the term "lynch" outside of a racist context) or a purposely offensive remark?

[AngryABCGirl]

Lynch is not really a word ever used in sports...

[mr. x]

It's totally cool, she's seeing a black guy (man that 1-800-blackguy comes in real handy for these moments)

Funnily enough if you married Tiger Woods you could talk shit about everyone

[Russ]

Hasn't she only been suspended for two weeks and not fired? For now at least.

[Russ]

Well, someone was fired as a result of this controversy...but it wasn't the sportscaster who started it with her comments.

Golfweek magazine fired one of its editors yesterday after the magazine drew a lot of criticism for putting a noose on the cover on it's latest issue to go along with its news story on the lynch remark.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080119/ap_on_sp_go_ne/glf_golfweek_editor_out_11

[mr. x]

yeah rather ironic. I suppose you could say the magazine was trying to stir up something that wasn't there to begin with

[j&j2]

This whole thing was blown out of proportion.

Tilghman knows Tiger well and everyone who knows her (including many black sportscasters) say that there was no ill-intent behind her words.

Yeah, it was an unfortunate (and likely ignorant) choice of words and she should have been reprimanded for that - but this was not like many of the other situations where there was ill-intent.

[proazn]

i'm still waiting for the day a reporter calls Tiger Woods a chink. man, don't people realize he's also asian??? gzzz... he's not just black. now i'm pissed.

[Zdrav]

"Lynch" is a common term used. It's fully understandable that one would accidentally use it to refer to a Black person without racist intentions.