March 9, 2003
SAY IT AIN'T SO, HOOTIE!:
The Klub from hell: an image (Buck Harvey, 03/09/2003, San Antonio Express News)A golf magazine speculates, using sources, that Sandra Day O'Connor will be Augusta National's first female member.The club will announce this, Golfweek says, the day before next month's Masters. And if true, that means the Supreme Court justice could walk through the club gates wearing her robe, directly past the Imperial Wizard wearing his.
It's the perfect ending to a Mel Brooks movie. And the perfect conclusion to this saga of the South.
Hootie Johnson and Augusta already were losing a defensible privacy-issue argument. Hootie is to blame for that, but so are the inherent images of rich white men smoking cigars on a Georgia plantation.
Then came the end game, when an ally joined Augusta National's cause last week and slipped a green straitjacket on Hootie.
And to think. No one thought the Ku Klux Klan had power anymore.
It's like letting Saddam win. Posted by Orrin Judd at March 9, 2003 6:49 AM
If I were of a cynical mind, I'd wonder whether the opposition had put this Klansman up to it, on purpose to discredit the whole cause of Augusta National and make it politically impossible for them to resist any further.
Posted by: Joe at March 9, 2003 10:48 AMWell, Hootie did not seem able to master (pun intended) the whole media thing, his handling of the affair was poorly done. Maybe he's the mole.
Posted by: Buttercup at March 9, 2003 11:26 AM