From the hysterical comments about this news item it seems that pretty much no one has listened to the entire segment, of which Kelly's "...and lynch him." was about a 1 second interjection. Nick Faldo initiated the thread by opining that the only way the other golfers are going to beat Tiger is to "...gang up on him in a back alley and..." which is where Kelly interjects her comment. So, why isn't' the Golf Channel suspending Nick? He started the thread of violence-as-solution and frankly, I think that's as repugnant as the way Kelly finishes it. Also, after watching the clip, I think it's pretty clear that neither Kelly or Nick were talking about Tiger's ethnicity, but rather about his overwhelming talents and abilities. The subliminal message wasn't that it's OK to hang a black man. No, the subliminal message that they should be apologizing for is that it's OK to violently eliminate your opponent if you can't beat him in competition.

The Golf Channel should fire her. Period.

We are, all, responsible for our words and actions.

Try repeating her hateful comment at your job.

You will not and should not be given a two week suspension.

YOU WILL BE FIRED.

We should not tolerate harmful words which may influence others to believe such hateful irresponsible
comments are okay.

Because it isn't okay. It is deplorable. She and the Golf Channel executives know this and should do the responsible thing through her resignation or her firing.

I saw the clip of that. Please look at the clip and not just the quote, because I think it's completely obvious from the clip that what she said was an accident. It was a matter of making an unfortunate word choice. I think it's a sad day when one *accidental* racist-sounding remark can ruin your career, but at the same time, those who repeatedly, deliberately make sexist remarks on television can get away with it.

What, she had a Fuzzy Zoeller moment.

Maybe shes a Witch....and you know what we do with Witches....in the mean time I see where 17 troops have been killed in Iraq so far this month...not sure of the color or gender.... just know they are all dead, blown to bits, anybody care about that?

She is paid for using her words and judgment. She's lucky she's just getting a two week suspension. Ben Wright worked as a golf analyst for 23 years when he was fired for making remarks to a Sports Illustrated reporter that were considered sexist and homophobic.

No one condones the remark; it was stupid and tasteless and she apologized immediately. Get over it because the intended target Tiger Woods has. Some of you folks really need to get lives.

You know, I hate censorship. But I am also amazed by the number of people who are paid large sums of money to comment on various subjects on TV, who seem to be incapable of using good judgment. My nine-year-old nephew has more sensitivity and awareness than some of these TV morons. And how quickly the stereotypical phrase springs to their lips! When someone is paid that much to TALK, it's shocking when they come up with something so stupid.

Hypothetical:

If Sandy Kofax was pitching today and dominating hitters, what would have happened to an anchor that said "Young hitters that want to challenge Sandy should take him out back and Gas him"?

This gal should be on the Imus show.

If I'm not mistaken, Tiger is half-black.

Half of him is entitled to be offended.

No one here is.

....young players who wanted to challenge Tiger Woods should "lynch him in a back alley."

What was the point of her comments? She is suspended only for only 2 weeks? I thought it was ESPN that was racist. Hmmmm...may be the network should give her a raise.

Great response, byrdland49.

Very enlightened comment;My sentiments exactly.

So..how does one stop Obama?

Lets all gang up..and Lynch him!

:)

NOW CAN WE GET RID OF SHARPTON? Lynching is no where near a racially owned word. What did they do to cattle rustlers in the 1800's? What did the Pinkertons do to the miners who tried to start unions? Fortunately there are people in this country who don't bait so easily. When we all get there, then we will have racial equality. Oh - What should we do to Al Sharpton?

Tiger is not going to be lynched by anybody and all of you know it. This was an unfortunate choice of words by a sports announcer and in no way was she advocating doing harm to Tiger. Faldo brought the issue up and her comments were, in my view, a tribute to Tiger in that the only way he could be stopped was something like a lynching.

Get a grip, folks. Sharpton is a fool and, if he does indeed speak for us black folks in America, we are in sad shape. If we are going to beat everybody up that makes a casual comment, we've got a lot of work to do, starting with black on black incidents.

She is a fine professional who made a mistake. Get over it. We've got more important things to deal with in this country.

Further, the one of you who is truly without guilt should cast the first stone at Kelly.

Tiger owns a stat in golf, I don't know exactly what it is, but the gap between Tiger and the person in second place is the same gap between the person in second place and eighty ninth place.

A singularly incredible stat. No wonder they want to see him dead.

HuffPo...HELLOOOOO!!! Why is my "Spammer. Flagged." post showing up as a reply to multiple different posts ????

Jeez...trying to get me lynched ? (yeah, I know...I'm going to hell)

The saddest thing about Ms. Tilghman's comment is that she is well known to be gay, and for these unfortunate words to come from the mouth of a person who's brothers and sisters have been murdered (remember Matthew Shepherd in Wyoming, as just one recent example of a gay lynching) simply because of their sexual identity is quite sad. That being said, I do think that the Golf Channel's decision to punish her by suspending her for two weeks is appropriate. I do not believe she is a racist, but more a product of our culture, which still has not come to terms with the horror of lynchings. I just don't think that careers need to be destroyed over words, at least not until there is some pattern or proof of overt racism. I believe Kelly Tilghman will learn from this lesson, and come back stronger and more enlightened to the impact casual words can have.

Obviously, she was complimenting Tiger Wood's ability. It's just too bad and perhaps its tragic that the irrational national hysteria doesn't allow left handed compliments. I still remember the trouble that the guy who said, "West African blacks are better athletes" got into.

Isn't it silly?

Suspended? What's wrong with FIRED?

Al Sharpton has no job other than to troll the media for racial slurs and promote retribution against the speaker. I'm not sure how he makes money from this, but he is out there, and he is watching.

Anyone with a high profile media job knows this, and should watch their language, no matter how unfair or out of context it may be taken. They get very well compensated for doing almost nothing anyway, so I consider it a job hazard.

The Bonfire of the Vanities captures the tone of the civil rights advocates and the media perfectly. It's about entertainment, money and power, fairness or justice never enters the equation.

Coming from a Black woman who does not use the N word; the people who care about me do not use the word around me; raised in time time of "white and colored" only signs. KKK acting up and Black Panthers coming to the rescue. I don't joke about the pain and suffering of any living thing.

Look at this link and tell me why her comment "lynch" should be glossed over. http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm

Also read the lyrics of the Billie Holliday tune "Strange Fruit"

Do you know where the word picnic came from? They would "pick a N-word"; bring the family, food and drinks and have a lynchin for entertainment.
So even if Tiger is not offended, millions of us are.

I don't care who said it - the word LYNCH in the same sentence with black people only means one thing:

LYNCHING!!

The truth is this is the most exciting thing to ever happen, not just in the history of the Golf Channel, but golf itself.

Golf is boring, elitist, racist (one token black star doesn"t make it integrated) and above all golf is boring. I wasn't being redundant.

Golf is so boring that ought to be a federal law to bookend all statements concerning golf with the word "boring".

Randy