{"id":34062,"date":"2009-11-30T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:40:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:40:12","slug":"familiar_media_drives_florida_authorities_to_pursue_tiger_woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/11\/30\/familiar_media_drives_florida_authorities_to_pursue_tiger_woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Familiar? Media Drives Florida Authorities to Pursue Tiger Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Everybody\u2019s asking me, &#8216;What do you think about this Tiger Woods thing?\u2019 Well, my friends, since I don\u2019t trust much of what I read in the media, it\u2019s hard to know what happened. But I will say <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125108.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" class=\"alignright\"\/>this. Whoever wrote Tiger\u2019s statement that was published on his website did not do him any favors. It says, &#8216;&#8230;and I promise you this will never happen again.\u2019 If this was an accident, you can\u2019t make that promise. Nobody can ever promise an accident will not happen again. That\u2019s what he said, &#8216;I promise you this will not happen again.\u2019 He took it all on himself, (paraphrasing) &#8216;It\u2019s my responsibility, my fault, but I promise you this will never happen again.\u2019 Well, the reason they\u2019re blowing it up is because he hasn\u2019t said anything beyond the statement. The reason they\u2019re blowing it up is because there\u2019s a vacuum out there, and the reason they\u2019re blowing it up is the media. The gossip media claims he\u2019s having an affair, and, of course, then the domestic violence stuff started, it\u2019s all rumor here that\u2019s fueling all of this. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t know what to think of it because I do not know. I\u2019m like every one of you. I hear rumors about all kinds of people and all kinds of things. <\/p>\n<p>Guess what\u2019s happening now? The Florida Highway Patrol is thinking about trying to get a search warrant for his hospital medical records after he was treated to see if they can find any evidence of domestic violence. Once again, law enforcement authorities are chasing around people\u2019s medical records. In Tiger Woods\u2019 case, he is not required to make a statement to the authorities. Now, he\u2019s gone out and hired a lawyer, the guy\u2019s known as the Johnnie Cochran of Orlando. He\u2019s a media lawyer. When you hire a lawyer, it\u2019s more than just, you know, running into a fire hydrant. People start thinking, people start speculating. So I have no idea, folks, and I don\u2019t want to join the speculation train which is running away right now. <\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, while the cops in Florida are thinking about getting a search warrant for Tiger Woods\u2019 medical records, we\u2019ve got this cop killer laid up in Washington. He\u2019s been surrounded, a mass cop killer. By the way, he massacred four police officers and was on the streets because almost ten years ago (in the face of a great protest) then-governor Mike Huckabee pardoned him in Arkansas. This may be Huckabee\u2019s Willie Horton. You know, we\u2019re spending all these law enforcement resources trying to track down Tiger Woods\u2019 medical records and whether or not something is going on in his house between himself and his wife, and we\u2019ve got this manhunt for a guy that shot and killed four people Thanksgiving Day down here in Jupiter, Florida. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a waste of resources to be spending all this money, but the media drives this stuff. The Florida cops are getting interested in it because the media is interested in it and they think they gotta follow up on it or they\u2019re going to look like they\u2019re being derelict in their duty. Then you have the famous guy aspect of this. &#8216;Hey, famous people can\u2019t get special treatment. We\u2019ve gotta give Tiger the same treatment we give anybody else,\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So it all fits. 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