golf. you know, he said a very key thing, too, i need to take care of myself on and off the course. that s what hi needs to do. golf, by the way, to him may be the farthest thing from his mind right now. i think he wants to get his family back together, make sure the media stops hounding his kids, and i think he took the right first steps. in recovery, you know, you have a prayer that says grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change, the courage to change the things i can, and the wisdom to know the difference. i think he s following that prayer. he really went on the offensive, christine, when he told the media, back away not necessarily from myself, but from my wife and from the children. and i think that will resonate with a lot of folks out there. well, it certainly resonates with the three of us, and where we are work and the kind of standards we have journalistically. i think because it s the 21st century, and because of the
candiotti, she s in florida on the scene there. this was all very, very carefully orchestrated. set the stage for us. what happened? reporter: it certainly was. the media presence here was simply massive, more than 200 reporters from as far as away as japan and even norway, but they couldn t have been that far away. we didn t get close to him at all. that building is a hotel ballroom at least a half mile away from the clubhouse where tiger made his apology. everything, as you said, tightly controlled and arranged by the pga. i d like to show you inside that ballroom. this is where the media was kept, part of the arrangements made by the representatives of tiger woods and pga. inside that room, you could hear a pin drop, while reports watched the statement without any questions. they took notes on their
golf media is upset about the way he organized it, but held it on the first day of the world like an international golf championship, sponsored by accenture, the first group to drop him. they thought it was cephalic. again the limelight is on tiger woods and they re bittersweet about the whole thing. but the media i think is hypocrite cal. i don t think he has any duty to answer. why don t the media ask senator vitter? he s up for reelection, a public official, he crusades and holds himself out as a great conservative christian leader, yet accused of consorting with prostitutes, and the media has stopped asking. and somebody who had to defend bill clinton good lord, the pornography, the star report was all out there. we ll never forget about trying to divert attention. i think the question is, there is a different standard for both. let s talk about what eric
republicans, but some of them have a presence at this cpac convention, don t they? like governor tim pawlenty? more of a moderate republican? well, that s right. the reality is what some speakers today have condemned practicing ma tiism and said it s the opposite of principle, but mitt romney yesterday gave a well-received speech, riding scott brown s coattails. tim pawlenty, a blue state governor, for the party to be competitive, they need to win the center, they need to practice the politics of addition, but movement politics tend to be all about ideological enforcement. this is very much an ideological there s an element of purification that runs through these sorts of rituals, so you have the isn t rbiss that can win elections outside the base,sh. john avlon, thanks very much
paparazzi, and because of the internet and all the these web sites that we never heard of that are now bookmarked on millions of golf fans computers because of the tiger woods saga, i m not so sure how that will go for him. i wouldn t chase after him, you two never would, but the reality is the internet world, the tabloid world will have another idea completely on that one. pat, your final thought, we re out of time. good luck on shoos the media away from the blogosphere world, but i think he made a great first step. i ve known him for a long time. i was very proud of him today. like christine said, this will be a long, long road. pat o brien and christine brennan, guys, thanks very much for joining us. we re going to have the full tiger woods statement, we ll air the entire thing in the next hour here in the situation