Tiger Woods gave the news media an early Christmas present over the Thanksgiving weekend, wrapped up like an Escalade around a tree. And the news media – having resigned itself to stories about Black Friday and tired variations on the tryptophan theme — was ever-thankful for it.
“We love this,” MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan admitted on his show Monday morning.
Woods’ bizarre 2:30 a.m. car crash – one that involved his golf club-wielding wife and rumors of marital indiscretions and resulted in the world’s number one golfer being knocked unconscious with apparent facial lacerations – was the topic across cable and sports news — even on "The View," where, as Jezebel notes, "Watching the ladies … dance around the most obvious implications of the Tiger Woods story was like watching a family at Thanksgiving trying to avoid mentioning an obviously pregnant teenager at the table."