The campaign to smear Phil Mickelson for joining a Saudi Arabian golf tournament wreaks of hypocrisy - just ask Joe Biden, LeBron James or FIFA.
But even he’s getting better press than golf superstar Phil Mickelson, who’s become sport’s No. 1 whipping boy for choosing to play in the new Saudi-backed breakaway LIV tournament.
Terry Strada, chair of 9/11 Families United, a support group for those who lost loved ones in the appalling September 11 atrocities, wrote a furious public letter to Mickelson — and his fellow renegades including Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed and Kevin Na — saying he’d “sold out” the September 11 dead and insulted their memories.It’s hard to think of a more damning accusation to make against any American.
He’s condemned the Saudis’ appalling human rights record and admitted they’re “scary motherf–kers” in a now-infamous confession to a golf writer, but he doesn’t think that should stop him from doing business with the Kingdom, just as he’s plied his trade all over the world for three decades, often in places with very dodgy human rights records.
Mickelson is no different to US President Joe Biden when it comes to Saudi Arabia, writes Piers Morgan Apparently, the US has decided to “move on” from the sickening murder to “pursue warmer relations” with the Saudis amid a growing global economic meltdown.The cold, hard reality is that Saudi Arabia remains America’s second-largest trading partner and one of its most important strategic allies, developing a security alliance against joint threats like Iran.
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.
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