Uchitel teaches Tiger a lesson
August 24th 2010 03:15
VYOOS EDITORIAL
The shameless milking of a situation for notoriety and profit is something that Rachel Uchitel understands. For her, it’s not a matter of social conscience or philosophy. For Rachel, it’s a career move.
Rachel Uchitel was the first woman named in the never-ending Tiger Woods transgression story. Her name sits atop what turned out to be a long list.
Her name has been popping up ever since. We are not saying she receives money every time she is interviewed. Just most of them. Call it a nice return for her investment in a few steamy sessions with that randy philanderer Woods.
It’s a game she knows how to play well – or at least the pack of piranhas which gathers around the Rachel Uchitels of this world knows how to play.
The game is to tell all, bit by tantalising, lucrative bit. Facts are convenient if they fit; much more important is a plentiful supply of anecdotes, comments, advice and post-coital reflection.
Scripted scruples.
For a price.
Then you wait for the phone to ring, which it will do every time Tiger does something newsworthy. Such as mishit a drive. Such as have another bogey-laden misstep in the track back to Superstardom. Such as finalising his divorce.
That’s what happened yesterday when Woods and Elin Nordegren and a large number of lawyers met in a Florida court to sign off on their split.
“We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future,'' they said in a statement released by the lawyers (Nordegren reportedly had eight of them present).
What the statement didn’t make clear is the settlement details. Guesses so far range between $US100 and $500 million.
Did someone mention money? Back to Rachel Uchitel who, piranha-like, smelled an opportunity, scripted and polished something sellable to say, and released a statement of her own, through a lawyer of her own.
“Tiger can begin again but he should never forget the human wreckage that he has left behind and the fact that he has still not been fully accountable for the suffering that he has inflicted on women,” said Rachel.
“He has broken his wife's heart and the hearts of many others. His apparent lack of honesty in his relationships doomed his marriage and caused a break that could not be repaired.''
Oh really? Rachel, we know you have heard this before, but you knew he was married, you knew he had two small children, and you bonked him anyway. It takes two to philander. By what bizarre extension of logic do you now find it plausible to preach morals to him?
Our advice to you is to get a new press writer. The above is way too transparent, showing, as it does, a woman as bereft of common sense as she is of consideration.
It’s one thing to understand the shameless milking of a situation for notoriety and profit. It’s another to do it consistently well. Keep producing this kind of twaddle, Rachel, and you may have to look for a new career move.
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