CBS broadcaster David Feherty breaks his silence on the Tiger scandal, rips the tabloids

He's the funniest man in golf, but CBS broadcaster and Golf Magazine columnist David Feherty won't be adding to the growing litany of Tiger jokes making the rounds. "There's nothing funny about this story," Feherty says from his Dallas home. "This is someone's private business and private misery we're talking about."

Feherty's phone has been ringing non-stop as reporters seek his comment on the ongoing tale that's made worldwide news in thousands of print, online and television stories over the last week. He has no interest in adding fuel to the inferno by discussing the tawdry revelations which, as he sees it, are not his business. Instead, Feherty, a devout hunter -- when I called, he was fiddling with his brand-new Barrett Model M98-B .338 bolt-action Lapua Magnum sniper's rifle -- lowered his verbal cross-hairs on the tabloid media.

"I'm sick of it, all the coverage," Feherty fumed. "Lord knows, my private life is ghastly, so when I see someone's private business talked about night and day, over and over, it bothers me. It's a bad state of affairs [in the media]. You're talking about other people's misery, and this has been all over the tabloid shows," even Nancy Grace, the HLN program that sometimes covers missing-person cases. "I wouldn't mind a show on how she disappears. Everyone is so nosy. I can see it now. This is gonna be a movie. There will be books. You know, people have a right to work through problems on their own, without all the attention. Tiger plays golf, but he's a very private figure. The way the tabloids feast on private misery makes me sick and angry."

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