MSNBC goes live to Augusta National for the Masters, where the National’s Chairman Billy Payne scolded Tiger Woods for disappointing "all of us and more importantly our kids and our grandkids." Sports Editor Dave Zirin gives Payne the "just shut up award" for criticizing Woods while he oversees a tournament that "defines segregation in golf and still defines the exclusion of women in golf."
But Zirin is unhappy with Woods too, in particular with his latest Nike ad, featuring Woods’ face and a voiceover of his late father. Zirin calls the ad "another shellac of distraction" from the tournament and questions if Woods is a human or just a brand. "All the sympathy we’ve ginned up for him over the last several months…it’s all been about a narrative to sell us more crap with swooshes on it."
