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Monday, July 22, 2002
Click here for an Easy Print Version GALEN: Good morning everyone. This is Rich Galen with you again here on the Mullings Cable Network. Let's catch you up with the latest: Tiger Woods was looking to complete golf's Grand Slam - The U.S. Open, the PGA, the Masters, and the British Open - in the same year. But he scored a disastrous 81 on Saturday to take himself out of contention. First, to our media reporter, Howard Kurtz, Howie? HOWIE: Thank you, Rich. Observers here in Gullane, Scotland are still stunned at how suddenly the Woods Era has ended. Here in the press tent, Woods, who has been compared to the giants of the sport - Palmer and Nicklaus - is now being paired with the likes of Mickelson, Norman, and the guy who keeps losing his ball in the clown's mouth at the Putt-Putt. GALEN: To our on-course commentator, Geraldo Rivera. GERALDO: (Whispering) Rich, I'm here in a bunker disguised as a niblick on the 12th fairway just off the green. From this location our microphones have been able to pick up the comments of many of the other golfers, including Sergio Garcia who said - in Spanish - "Tigre Bosque. Hah! Burrito Grande." GALEN: Geraldo, putting himself in personal danger for us, once again. Now to Ashleigh Banfield. ASHLEIGH: Rich, with me here in the golfers' locker room - HEY! THERE'S WOMAN IN HERE! - is the commissioner of the US PGA, Tim Finchem. Commissioner, what do you make of this? FINCHEM: "Well, Ashleigh, we still think the world of Tiger Woods. We wish him all the best in his future endeavors." GALEN: Now to New York City and our newest reporter Phil Donahue. Phil? PHIL: Rich, in the true spirit of America, in the true spirit of the Constitution, in the true spirit of free speech - GALEN: Phil, we're coming up on a hard break here. PHIL: Oh. Ok. Just behind me is a demonstration organized by that great defender of the rights of the downtrodden, Al Sharpton, who says the British Open course was specifically set up to disadvantage a golfer of color like Woods. Let's listen: DEMONSTRATORS: "Hey, HEY! Ho, HO! Four-foot-rough has got to go!" PHIL: That's a-MER-ica, Rich. Whether you like it or not. GALEN: We have with us in the studio the Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Selig. Mr. Commissioner, what does this mean in the competition for the entertainment dollar? SELIG: "There is the PGA tour, the Senior Tour, the LPGA tour, the Buy.com tour. That's too many players in too many places over too long a season. Contraction. That's what I'd do." GALEN: To Pompano Beach, and Tiger's former caddy, Fluff Cowan. Fluff, when you left the Tour to be closer to your family, a lot of people warned this might happen, so this was not unexpected in your mind. COWAN: "When we were together on the course I was his closest advisor. Now, there are too many people on the wrong side of the ropes telling him what to do and how to do it. Unexpected? No. Inevitable." GALEN: Now to our White House correspondent, David Gregory. David. DAVID: Another day, Rich, of what has become the mantra here in the White House briefing room as well as among Democrats on Capitol Hill: "Le d�faut du Pr�sident." As an example, Senator Joe Lieberman, coming out of a bi-partisan breakfast with President Bush, told us: LIEBERMAN: (Whining) "I don't know. Bush plays golf at Kennebunkport then Tiger shoots an 81. I think the American people deserve better." GALEN: Our senior political correspondent, Carl Cameron, on House Minority Leader, Dick Gephardt: CARL: Rich, Dick Gephardt was almost giddy here today, claiming that Democrats will pick up the same number of seats in the November elections as Tiger had strokes - 81. GALEN: What did Gephardt say about Tiger's 65 on Sunday? CARL: A spokesman said Gephardt thought that was a fluke. GALEN: So, on Thursday Tiger Woods had no peer. By Sunday afternoon, he was just another golfer hacking his way around the course. This is Rich Galen. Now back to our regularly scheduled program: Martha Stewart: Did Her Souffl� Collapse or Was She Planning to Make Pita Bread?
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