A Twitterstorm on Tiger Woods is now starting. Here are a few that I put on my Twitter page in just a few minutes:
# JoeNBC [Joe Scarborough]
Tiger’s apology included some of the worst acting since Ishtar. 3 minutes ago from UberTwitter Retweeted by you and 14 others
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* Retweeted (Undo)# HowardKurtz
Tiger embraces Buddhism after saying he drifted away in recent years. Brit Hume, take note. 25 minutes ago from web Retweeted by you and 10 others
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* Retweeted (Undo)# owillis
People, this is a private personal matter between #tigerwoods, his wife, and the tons of women he had sex with 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck Retweeted by you and 5 others
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shorter tiger woods: sorry i got caught! next time i’ll pick more discreet mistresses. 18 minutes ago from TweetDeck Retweeted by you
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* Retweeted (Undo)# Shoq
CUT TO THE CHASE, WOODS. Where’s the birth certificate? #p2 23 minutes ago from TweetDeck Retweeted by you and 10 others
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* Retweeted (Undo)# donnabrazile
Tiger Woods’ statement was believable. “I have much to atone for.it’s up to me to make amends.” I really liked his humility. Time to move on 14 minutes ago from web Retweeted by you and 8 others
Go to the link for links on these Twitters. (I will be on the road most of the day so any comments I make on events will be done via cellphone on Twitter. I now listen exclusively to Sirius satellite radio and am usually tuned into CNN, CSPAN, NPR or POTUS (Politics of the United States which is sort of like CSPAN in some ways) rather than much left or right talk radio. So I listen to a lot of news and live feeds. Twitter will allow me to comment more when I’m on long drives and at airports.)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.