{"id":50659,"date":"2022-02-23T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50659"},"modified":"2022-02-23T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T14:24:22","slug":"lefty-tells-truth-then-walks-it-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50659","title":{"rendered":"Lefty tells truth, then walks it back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Phil Mickelson has me officially puzzled. The Hall of Fame golfer known as Lefty to his fans and fellow golf pros, wants to do business with a nation he described in an interview as \u201ccrazy motherfu**ers\u201d who kill people who disagree with their politics and scorn those who are gay.<\/p>\n<p>Now he says his context were \u201ctaken out of context\u201d and published without his consent. He apologized to Saudi Arabia, which has launched a pro golf tour that is going to compete with the PGA; Mickelson wants to join the Saudis, even though he said those astonishing things about them.<\/p>\n<p>Which is it, Lefty? Are you in with those folks?<\/p>\n<p>I guess I am left to wonder two things. Why would Mickelson, a six-time major golf tournament winner and one of the best ever to play the game, do business with those he scorns in the manner that he did? Moreover, in this social media age, doesn\u2019t Mickelson realize that virtually nothing is \u201coff the record\u201d and that anything he says now is considered fair game?<\/p>\n<p>This is not Mickelson\u2019s finest hour. He has drawn harsh criticism from fellow golf pros, the PGA \u2026 not to mention the Saudi government.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing, though. Mickelson told the truth about the Saudis. As the saying goes, however, many times the \u201ctruth hurts.\u201d In this case, it has hurt the guy who spoke it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Mickelson has me officially puzzled. The Hall of Fame golfer known as Lefty to his fans and fellow golf pros, wants to do business with a nation he described in an interview as \u201ccrazy motherfu**ers\u201d who kill people who disagree with their politics and scorn those who are gay. Now he says his context &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50659\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lefty tells truth, then walks it back<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[3584,9884,4128],"class_list":["post-50659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-sports-news","tag-pga","tag-phil-mickelson","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50660,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50659\/revisions\/50660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}