{"id":462752,"date":"2022-06-14T18:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/phil-mickelson-treated-worse-than-putin-for-doing-the-same-thing-as-biden-lebron\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T15:10:17","slug":"phil-mickelson-treated-worse-than-putin-for-doing-the-same-thing-as-biden-lebron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/phil-mickelson-treated-worse-than-putin-for-doing-the-same-thing-as-biden-lebron\/","title":{"rendered":"#Phil Mickelson treated worse than Putin for doing the same thing as Biden, LeBron"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf395db108\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3bf395db108\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/phil-mickelson-treated-worse-than-putin-for-doing-the-same-thing-as-biden-lebron\/#%E2%80%9CPhil_Mickelson_treated_worse_than_Putin_for_doing_the_same_thing_as_Biden_LeBron%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Phil Mickelson treated worse than Putin for doing the same thing as Biden, LeBron&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPhil_Mickelson_treated_worse_than_Putin_for_doing_the_same_thing_as_Biden_LeBron%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Phil Mickelson treated worse than Putin for doing the same thing as Biden, LeBron&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Piers Morgan\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/Piers-Morgan.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Who is the worst human being on Planet Earth?<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin would get my vote for his disgusting genocidal rampage through Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>But even he\u2019s getting better press than golf superstar Phil Mickelson, who\u2019s become sport\u2019s No. 1 whipping boy for choosing to play in the new Saudi-backed breakaway LIV tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks on Mickelson reached a nadir over the weekend when he was accused of \u201cbetraying\u201d the victims of America\u2019s worst-ever terror attack.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Strada, chair of 9\/11 Families United, a support group for those who lost loved ones in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>alling September 11 atrocities, wrote a furious public letter to Mickelson \u2014 and his fellow renegades including Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Kevin Na \u2014 saying he\u2019d \u201csold out\u201d the September 11 dead and insulted their memories.<\/p>\n<p>Strada raged: \u201cThis is a betrayal not only of us, but of all your countrymen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to think of a more damning accusation to make against any American.<\/p>\n<p>When Mickelson was asked for his response, he said: \u201cI think I speak for pretty much every American in that we feel the deepest of sympathy and the deepest of empathy for those that have lost loved ones, friends in 9\/11. It affected all of us, and those that have been directly affected I think \u2014 I can\u2019t emphasize enough how much empathy I have for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But that just prompted another rebuke from Strada: \u201cPhil knows exactly what he\u2019s doing, and he and his fellow LIV golfers should be ashamed. They are helping the Saudi regime \u2018sportswash\u2019 their reputation in return for tens of millions of dollars, at the very same time our government is rolling out more damning evidence of Saudi culpability in the 9\/11 attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I understand Strada\u2019s anger.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/lebron.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"LeBron James has led basketball\u2019s own shameless sports-washing, it\u2019s had no problem raking in billions in Chinese cash.\" class=\"wp-image-22650217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/lebron.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/lebron.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/lebron.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>LeBron James has led basketball\u2019s own shameless sports-washing \u2014 it\u2019s had no problem raking in billions in Chinese cash.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">MICHAEL TRAN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Her husband, Tom, was a partner at Cantor Fitzgerald and perished on the 104th floor of the North Tower.<\/p>\n<p>I would feel the same if my spouse had been killed by Osama bin Laden\u2019s suicide bombers.<\/p>\n<p>But Phil Mickelson had nothing to do with 9\/11, and I\u2019m sure his sentiments toward the victims are entirely genuine.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s condemned the Saudis\u2019 appalling human rights record and admitted they\u2019re \u201cscary motherf\u2013kers\u201d in a now-infamous confession to a golf writer, but he doesn\u2019t think that should stop him from doing business with the Kingdom, just as he\u2019s plied his trade all over the world for three decades, often in places with very dodgy human rights records.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/biden-6.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Biden is expected to be in Saudi Arabia next month.\" class=\"wp-image-22650242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/biden-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/biden-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/biden-6.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>President Biden is expected to be in Saudi Arabia next month.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Gemunu Amarasinghe<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As such, he\u2019s no different from every president of the United States, though when it comes to Saudi Arabia, the presidential hypocrisy runs a little deeper.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Joe Biden was so morally outraged about the 2018 murder of exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was ambushed by a hit squad at the Saudi consulate in Turkey, suffocated, and then cut into pieces with bone saws, that during a Democratic candidate debate the following year, he declared: \u201cWe were going to make them (Saudi Arabia) pay the price and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/putin-55-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Vladimir Putin has gotten better press than PGA star Phil Mickelson after he joined a Saudi Arabia golf tournament.\" class=\"wp-image-22650304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/putin-55-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/putin-55-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/putin-55-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Vladimir Putin has gotten better press than PGA star Phil Mickelson after he joined a Saudi Arabia golf tournament. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\"> Contributor\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the first things Biden did after winning the presidency last November was approve the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles worth $650 million \u2026 to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>And next month, he will hold his nose again and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> to Riyadh to kiss the oil-pumping ring of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and beg him to produce more of the black stuff to bring down surging gas prices across the US.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s despite US intelligence recently stating the Saudi leader personally approved Khashoggi\u2019s assassination.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Apparently, the US has decided to \u201cmove on\u201d from the sickening murder to \u201cpursue warmer relations\u201d with the Saudis amid a growing global economic meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, there\u2019s no other sensible option.<\/p>\n<p>The cold, hard reality is that Saudi Arabia remains America\u2019s second-largest trading partner and one of its most important strategic allies, developing a security alliance against joint threats like Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to change my view on human rights,\u201d Biden said last week, defending his relationship with the Saudis. \u201cBut as president of the United States, my job is to bring peace if I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s right.<\/p>\n<p>And if the US government is happy to do big business with the Saudis, why shouldn\u2019t an American citizen like Phil Mickelson be allowed to?<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the stinking hypocrisy of his critics in the sports world.<\/p>\n<p>PGA boss Jay Monahan has banned all the LIV players from his tour, and when asked about the 9\/11 families\u2019 complaint, told CBS: \u201cI would ask any player who has left [the PGA Tour] or any player who would ever consider leaving, \u2018Have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the PGA Tour?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Mr. Monahan seems to have severe amnesia.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he allowed Mickelson and the LIV renegades to all play in the lucrative Saudi International tournament so long as they agreed to play in his AT&amp;T Pebble Beach pro-am once over the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, his issue about Saudi Arabia wasn\u2019t about morality, but money.<\/p>\n<p>The European Tour, whose bosses have expressed indignance similar to Monahan\u2019s over the LIV tour, has taken Saudi money to stage tournaments there for the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>And what about the PGA\u2019s business dealings with China?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s the same two-faced virtue-signaling bulls\u2013t we\u2019ve seen with Disney, which goes to war in Florida over LGBT rights but simultaneously streams content to many anti-gay countries.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Piers Morgan<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As with the NBA, whose star player LeBron James has led basketball\u2019s own shameless sports-washing, it\u2019s had no problem raking in billions in Chinese cash, and holding an annual tour event there, while not saying a condemnatory word about the totalitarian regime\u2019s horrific human rights abuses like ongoing suppression of Uyghur Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Nor does the PGA have any problem with its major sponsors like FedEx, UPS and RBC, and golf manufacturers like Ping, Titleist, Nike and Callaway, all doing huge business in China and throughout the UAE including Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>This whole \u201csports-washing\u201d issue is riddled with rampant hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA, the top global football (OK, \u201csoccer\u201d) association, constantly bangs on about celebrating diversity and tolerance, and has been doing so again during Pride Month, but the same FIFA has sold its coveted World Cup to Qatar, where it\u2019s illegal to be gay and where workers\u2019 and women\u2019s rights are just as dreadful.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same two-faced virtue-signaling bulls\u2013t we\u2019ve seen with Disney, which goes to war in Florida over LGBT rights but simultaneously streams content to many anti-gay countries.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Mickelson\u2019s no saint. By his own admission, he\u2019s got a massive gambling problem, and has said some very clumsy things about this whole furor for which he\u2019s apologized.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s an American sporting legend who\u2019s done more than anyone other than Tiger Woods to make modern golf a hugely popular and financially rewarding <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, and by taking paychecks from a country with a terrible human rights record, he\u2019s no worse than his president, or most other leading US sportsmen and companies including his previous employers at the PGA.<\/p>\n<p>So I suggest his hypocritical critics take their cracked halos and shove them up their sanctimonious backsides.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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