{"id":2269,"date":"2010-01-03T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2010-01-03T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T22:15:00","slug":"hume-tiger-woods-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/01\/03\/hume-tiger-woods-convert\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Tiger To Convert Just Ain&#8217;t Kosher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now, I&#8217;ve avoided writing about Tiger Woods&#8217; serial philandering.   But <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201001030009\">Brit Hume&#8217;s<\/a> outrageous comments leave me no choice. According to Hume, if <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/2009\/\/01\/brit-hume-tiger-woods-must-become-christian\/\">Tiger Woods wants forgiveness,<\/a> he must convert from Buddhism to Christianity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tiger Woods should turn his back on Buddhism and become a Christian to be forgiven for cheating on his wife, Hume told Fox News&#8217; Chris Wallace Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith,&#8221; said Hume. &#8220;He is said to be a Buddhist. I don&#8217;t think that faith offers the kind of redemption and forgiveness offered by the Christian faith. My message to Tiger is, Tiger turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/david\/brit-hume-tiger-woods-must-become-christian\">charming video<\/a> over at Crooks and Liars.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings me to my latest limerick:<\/p>\n<p>Telling Tiger To Convert Just Ain&#8217;t Kosher<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods&#8217; rep has really been hurt.<br \/>\nHume&#8217;s solution?  The guy should convert:<br \/>\nBe a Buddhist no more &#8212;<br \/>\nEnter Christian faith&#8217;s door.<br \/>\nGet redemption for chasing each skirt.<\/p>\n<p><em>Related Posts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/03\/22\/brit-hume\/\">Fuming About Hume;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/0910\/petraeus-and-crocker-face-hume-humiliation\/ \">Petraeus and Crocker Face Hume Humiliation<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until now, I&#8217;ve avoided writing about Tiger Woods&#8217; serial philandering. But Brit Hume&#8217;s outrageous comments leave me no choice. According to Hume, if Tiger Woods wants forgiveness, he must convert from Buddhism to Christianity: Tiger Woods should turn his back on Buddhism and become a Christian to be forgiven for cheating on his wife, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[578,925,641,585,26,47,28,152,790,576,1048],"tags":[1056,1046,1045,1047,686,275,1049,1062,1053,1044,786,2866,1065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}