Wie Withdraws from John Deere Classic, but...

...she'll be OK to play in the Women's US Open. Where would this blog be without the slick-savy of Team Wie? Let's see, the John Deere Classic is July 12-15 and the US Women's Open starts June 28. Wait a minute, that's before the PGA event! Team Wie wants us to believe that Wie's wrist will actually be healing while preparing for and playing in the US Open but that it won't be healed enough for her to play in the John Deere Classic two weeks later. Here's hoping that Team Wie and the Wiester herself steers clear of undergraduate logic classes when she enrolls at Stanford this fall.

Though logic isn't her forte, Wie is well versed in Orwellian Newspeak. What's worse, she's getting better at it all the time. I feel sorry for her in a way. Sometimes I get the sense that she has learned all the wrong lessons from Tiger Woods and none of the right ones. Tiger is prone to incisive speech, but he is a very sharp and guarded speaker. He rfarely says anything that comes back to haunt him.

Wie lacks the verbal skills to spin her words the way her level of media exposure requires. She comes across sounding out of touch and blasé or, worse, defensive and self-entitled. The sad part is that she doesn't think anyone should notice.

Whether it was her self-serving bail out of Annika's event or her illogical doublespeak about her injured wrist, she's just not a straight shooter.