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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, you know, we\u2019re back to Tiger Woods. A woman has just sent me a column today by Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. Eugene Robinson is an African-American. He\u2019s a regular analyst, commentator over there at Mess NBC. And this woman that sent me, this friend, has put some comments in various parts of the column written by Eugene Robinson. The title of the column is: ‘Tiger\u2019s Validation Complex.\u2019 And I\u2019m just going to read to you from about halfway into the column on. ‘Here\u2019s my real question, though,\u2019 writes Eugene Robinson. ‘What\u2019s with the whole Barbie thing? No offense to anyone who actually looks like Barbie, but it really is striking how much the women who\u2019ve been linked to Woods resemble one another. I\u2019m talking about the long hair, the specific body type, even the facial features.\u2019 Hey, Eugene, you\u2019ve been studying this. <\/p>\n

‘Mattel could sue for trademark infringement. This may be the most interesting aspect of the whole Tiger Woods story — and one of the most disappointing. He seems to have been bent on proving to himself that he could have any woman he wanted. But from the evidence, his aim wasn\u2019t variety but some kind of validation. I\u2019m making a big assumption here that the attraction for Woods was mostly physical, but there\u2019s no evidence thus far that he had a lot of time for deep conversation.\u2019 Look, Eugene, the guy was not prowling the halls of Harvard, right? He\u2019s in strip clubs, nightclubs, pancake houses. Not to equate the pancake house with a strip club but I mean he\u2019s not out there prowling for brains. <\/p>\n

‘If adultery is really about the power and satisfaction of conquest, Woods\u2019 self-esteem was apparently only boosted by bedding the kind of woman he thought other men lusted after,\u2019 and then the comment here, ‘all men want other men to approve of who they make love to.\u2019 (interruption) I have no clue. I\u2019ve been asked, ‘What is he talking about?\u2019 I know what he\u2019s talking about here. Look, I know exactly what Eugene Robinson\u2019s getting at here, but if you don\u2019t figure it out on your own, I\u2019m not going to be the one to say it. They\u2019re still waiting out there for me to start talking about this, and I\u2019m not going to do it. They are still waiting for me to bring this up so that they can then all talk about it while chastising me for doing it. But, Eugene Robinson, they don\u2019t all look like Barbie. A number of them do, but some of them don\u2019t. Well, Barbie comes in every color, yes, but Eugene Robinson is not thinking diversity when he thinks Barbie here, let\u2019s put it that way. <\/p>\n

He then says: ‘The world is full of beautiful women of all colors, shapes and sizes — some with short hair or almond eyes, some with broad noses, some with yellow or brown skin. Woods appears to have bought into an ‘official\u2019 standard of beauty that is so conventional as to be almost oppressive.\u2019 (laughing) So I guess, is Eugene Robinson saying that Tiger was a slave to a certain female type? The Barbie, Tiger is a slave to Barbie. Is that what Eugene Robinson is saying here? ‘His taste in mistresses leaves the impression of a man who is, deep down, both insecure and image-conscious — a control freak even when he\u2019s committing ‘transgressions.” Now, do you have to know a little bit about that to write about it? You got all these moralizers in the media, as though they live lives clean and pure as the wind-driven snow. (interruption) Snerdley, you\u2019re not going to bait me, you are not going to bait me into discussing this. Snerdley is screaming at me, ‘What\u2019s wrong? What\u2019s the big deal? A guy likes to have sex with a certain kind of women. What\u2019s so unique about that?\u2019 I\u2019m not going there. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve gotta put all of this in context to understand why this piece was written, Snerdley. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Something about this Eugene Robinson piece I wish to point out, \u2019cause earlier in the column he says, ‘I\u2019m not going to pronounce judgment on Tiger Woods\u2019 moral fiber except to state that adultery is bad. And I\u2019m also not going to judge the women who have reportedly had affairs with him, except to point out how quick they\u2019ve been to retain high priced legal counsel.\u2019 Okay, so he\u2019s not going to judge anything. He\u2019s not going to judge a thing. And he says, ‘Here\u2019s my real question, though, what\u2019s with the whole Barbie thing?\u2019 Is it not amazing that to a columnist in the Washington Post, the big problem Eugene has with Tiger is his choice of concubine. Stop and think about that. His choice. (imitating Robinson) ‘I\u2019m not going to say it\u2019s not good, not gonna pass moral judgment. Boy, what really bugs me is they all look like Barbie.\u2019 (laughing) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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