Posted 4:25 PM by Gene

Even as our mental daze over the fathomless loss of a TOWERING FIGURE IN AMERICAN JERNALISM slowly wears off, by gum if we news hacks don't come up with a new instant cliché: THE GOLFING MACHINE had COURAGE. Yes, COURAGE. The COURAGE to play before admiring millions on a banged-up knee so He could PROVE something. And what did He prove? His IMMORTALITY. Never mind that in a certain way He may have been just showing off. News hacks love to misuse words. Courage to them is a friend making millions or one of their excessively like-minded demagogues sticking it to the right. Courage isn't the soldier in Iraq, the firefighter in the Bronx, the emergency workers staring down floods in the Midwest -- no; it is the friend of CEOs adding another scene to His HIGHLIGHT REEL.

Talk of athuhletes having COURAGE should have died long before the Four Horsemen, and at least in their day it was understandable as they were mostly ordinary people, and there was no ESPN. Now it's just another excuse to try to pervert dictionaries. I HATE NEWS HACKS!!!!!

P. S. And news hacks have further trouble distinguishing between COURAGE and HUBRIS.