{"id":235330,"date":"2017-05-30T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=235330"},"modified":"2017-05-31T16:17:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T20:17:52","slug":"why-its-easy-to-believe-espn-doctored-tigers-mugshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/30\/why-its-easy-to-believe-espn-doctored-tigers-mugshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It\u2019s Easy to Believe ESPN Doctored Tiger\u2019s Mugshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Well, now I gotta click on the link. Hang on just a second here. What am I supposed to see here? There\u2019s a controversy brewing, I don\u2019t even want to tell you. The one in red is the Photoshop? (interruption) Yeah, I see what you mean. And are they still using that one? All right. All right.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s move into Tiger Woods. I had a bunch of questions about that. I was just informed that ESPN Photoshopped the mug shot to try to make tiger look less whatever he looks. And I had not seen ESPN, I haven\u2019t gone to their website, so the staff clued me in. And I\u2019m looking at it now and they have changed it, there\u2019s no question they Photoshopped it. They\u2019ve added a little hair and combed it or made it look like it\u2019s combed and the eyes look a little brighter and more focused than in the real mug shot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-235355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-053017-Tiger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-053017-Tiger.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/650-053017-Tiger-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/>Now, this should not surprise anybody. This fits perfectly with today\u2019s ESPN. What are they doing here? What are they doing by Photoshopping Tiger Woods to make him look not as whatever he looks in the real mug shot? What are they doing? So I\u2019ve had a couple questions, because the stories that have accompanied the news that broke yesterday morning was that Tiger is earning $45 million a year as a corporate sponsor even though he hasn\u2019t won a golf tournament this century. Well, that\u2019s not true, but he hasn\u2019t won a golf tournament in a long time. He hasn\u2019t played competitive golf in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Nike is paying $20 million of it, and I can\u2019t remember the name of the other outfit. There\u2019s two companies. He\u2019s making total of $45 million, and people are asking me, &#8220;Is he generating enough sales of endorsed merchandise to warrant this kind of payment?&#8221; No. Why does Hillary Clinton get paid $14 million for a book that nobody buys? Why does Hillary Clinton get paid $14 million for a book that nobody will show up and have her sign at the signing ceremony? Why?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yeah, it\u2019s a payback. Why did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/05\/01\/les_moonves_of_cbs_admits_hip_means_more_to_him_than_ratings\/\">Les Moonves, when he hired Steven Colbert say, &#8220;I don\u2019t care about ratings. I want the buzz&#8221;?<\/a> Okay, it\u2019s hip, it\u2019s this. Now, in the case of Nike, Nike was Tiger\u2019s first sponsor way, way back when he went pro in 1997. Phil Knight loved Tiger Woods. I was at that Masters for a couple of days, and my friend Howard Slusher worked at the time for Phil Knight in his office, the founder of Nike.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Friday night and we\u2019re all sitting somewhere. You rent a house when you go there. And Phil got a phone call. Tiger was over playing video games, and he had summoned Phil, and Phil bolted out of that chair and left the house and went over to see Tiger. Tiger was it, I mean, owned everything. The Nike endorsement, I don\u2019t think they\u2019ll ever abandon Tiger Woods. It\u2019s a personal thing, and now it has become a protective thing. I don\u2019t think Nike will ever &#8212; you know, Nike had to get rid of the club division, the golf club division because Tiger started playing so poorly nobody was buying Nike clubs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-235437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/633483928-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/633483928-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/633483928.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/>Tiger now has his endorsement deal for clothes for TaylorMade. He still has a Nike endorsement deal for the apparel, golf shirts and stuff like that, maybe shoes, but not clubs anymore. And they\u2019re out of the golf ball business, I think. But the Nike endorsement of Tiger is pure personal. It\u2019s protective. It\u2019s defensive against just these kinds of things.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not based on an up-and-down business relationship at all. I don\u2019t think anything will ever, unless there was someday a total turnover of people at Nike, but even in that case&#8230; I can\u2019t think of the other outfit. Just a mental block. I know who it is. I can\u2019t tell you right now. They make up the other $20 million.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that much of this Tiger is being paid for all the great stuff in the past. He has in the past sold gobs and gobs of stuff. He\u2019s also being paid so nobody else can get him, \u2019cause everybody in the golf world is hoping and praying that Tiger will come back and be reborn and be the Tiger Woods of 1997 to 2005. They\u2019re hoping. And they want to be there if he is. And they want, in his mind, to be the ones that stuck with him. So there\u2019s much more to these endorsements than just the dollars and cents of what he\u2019s selling now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: There&#039;s no question they Photoshopped it. They&#039;ve added a little hair and combed it or made it look like it&#039;s combed and the eyes look a little brighter and more focused than in the real mug shot. 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