# First Tiger, now someone named "Conrad Black" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049 "2019-05-16T13:34:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/1 "2019-05-16T13:34:37Z")
So first the Microbrain-in-Chief awards Tiger Woods a Congressional Medal of Freedom (for what? His golf exploits? His willingness to bang other women besides his lovely [now ex-]wife?) and now he’s pardoned some criminal named “Conrad Black” (whom I’d never heard of before. I don’t pay attention to the kinds of things that “Conrad Black” was involved in before his incarceration) on the basis of Mr. Black having written a “glowing ‘Microbrain’ bio.” Is this true? Oh, and how can I _possibly_ forget Microbrain’s pardon of the utterly contemptible Sheriff Arpaio. This “administration” (if that’s _really_ what you want to call it) is an absolute disgrace. No “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts,” about it. And the dinosaur brains who continue to defend **it** and the person who “leads” it - I have absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G good to say/write/type/think about _any_ of YOU! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/2 "2019-05-16T15:27:57Z")
Just sayin’, the board has at least two perfectly good omnibus threads for this sort of thing. Your topic sounds rather like something about how Trump has pissed you off today, but the choice is up to you. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/3 "2019-05-16T16:11:15Z")
If you post an OP with no links and no context, you make people more sympathetic to Trump and Black. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/4 "2019-05-16T16:28:49Z")
Conrad Black as in the disgraced former owner of the Telegraph? I thought he was Canadian. And dead; Wikipedia states otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/5 "2019-05-16T16:29:38Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > So first the Microbrain-in-Chief awards Tiger Woods a Congressional Medal of Freedom (for what? His golf exploits? His willingness to bang other women besides his lovely [now ex-]wife?) and now he’s pardoned some criminal named “Conrad Black” (whom I’d never heard of before. I don’t pay attention to the kinds of things that “Conrad Black” was involved in before his incarceration) on the basis of Mr. Black having written a “glowing ‘Microbrain’ bio.” Is this true? Oh, and how can I _possibly_ forget Microbrain’s pardon of the utterly contemptible Sheriff Arpaio. This “administration” (if that’s _really_ what you want to call it) is an absolute disgrace. No “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts,” about it. And the dinosaur brains who continue to defend **it** and the person who “leads” it - I have absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G good to say/write/type/think about _any_ of YOU! Maybe he got pardoned because Trump thinks that his middle name is “ain’t.” ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/6 "2019-05-16T16:34:06Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Conrad Black as in the disgraced former owner of the Telegraph? I thought he was Canadian. And dead; Wikipedia states otherwise. Canadian? No way, you guys bought him fair and square. Caveat emptor! ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/7 "2019-05-16T16:52:41Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > Canadian? No way, you guys bought him fair and square. Caveat emptor! Damn straight. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/8 "2019-05-16T16:57:12Z")
So we can’t claim under the Sale of Goods Act? (Or it’s replacement) Damn. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/9 "2019-05-16T17:18:27Z")
> [@El\_Kabong](#): > > Just sayin’, the board has at least two perfectly good omnibus threads for this sort of thing. > > Your topic sounds rather like something about how Trump has pissed you off today, but the choice is up to you. Eh - I’m not here all that often and I didn’t feel like searching through threads to find “just the right one” to add something to. I kinda felt like starting a rant of my own, thank you very much. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/10 "2019-05-16T17:20:11Z")
Oh, in the OP I should’ve added, as a reason for Donny the Dimwit awarding Tiger that medal, “or maybe it’s so he can call Tiger his ‘black friend.’” ---
**Author:** ![backsidejohnny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/backsidejohnny/32/280_2.png) [@backsidejohnny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/backsidejohnny)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/11 "2019-05-16T17:35:08Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > So first the Microbrain-in-Chief awards Tiger Woods a Congressional Medal of Freedom (for what? His golf exploits? His willingness to bang other women besides his lovely [now ex-]wife?) and now he’s pardoned some criminal named “Conrad Black” (whom I’d never heard of before. I don’t pay attention to the kinds of things that “Conrad Black” was involved in before his incarceration) on the basis of Mr. Black having written a “glowing ‘Microbrain’ bio.” Is this true? Oh, and how can I _possibly_ forget Microbrain’s pardon of the utterly contemptible Sheriff Arpaio. This “administration” (if that’s _really_ what you want to call it) is an absolute disgrace. No “ifs,” “ands,” or “buts,” about it. And the dinosaur brains who continue to defend **it** and the person who “leads” it - I have absolutely N-O-T-H-I-N-G good to say/write/type/think about _any_ of YOU! The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States. The Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal are the highest civilian awards of the United States. Here is the list of recipients. > **[List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients)** > > This is a partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, listed chronologically within the aspect of life in which each recipient is or was renowned. > The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded by the president of the United States "for especially meritorious contribution to (1) the security or national interests of the United States, or (2) world peace, or (3) cultural or other significant public or private endeavors." Honorees are selected by the president or recommended ... ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/12 "2019-05-16T17:41:40Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Conrad Black as in the disgraced former owner of the Telegraph? I thought he was Canadian. And dead; Wikipedia states otherwise. There was a game show, I think on MTV, in which one of the categories was “Dead or Canadian”. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/13 "2019-05-16T17:44:33Z")
> [@backsidejohnny](#): > > Here is the list of recipients. > > [List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients) Hmm. Okay, there are a HELL of a lot of people who shouldn’t be on that list. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/14 "2019-05-16T17:55:05Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > If you post an OP with no links and no context, you make people more sympathetic to Trump and Black. Really?! LOL ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/15 "2019-05-16T18:26:15Z")
He was good in Diff’rent Strokes but I don’t know if that’s a good reason to give him a pardon. Or a medal. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2019, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/16 "2019-05-16T18:30:04Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Maybe he got pardoned because Trump thinks that his middle name is “ain’t.” Steve White? 😉 And yeah, Trump is the suxxors ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/17 "2019-05-17T01:21:09Z")
It’s Trump’s way of showing he isn’t a racist, that Black’s Life Matters. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/18 "2019-05-17T02:58:23Z")
> [@dba\_Fred](#): > > It’s Trump’s way of showing he isn’t a racist, that Black’s Life Matters. If I were your parent, I’d have to go to another room until I stopped laughing before I came back to punish you. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/19 "2019-05-17T03:58:41Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Hmm. Okay, there are a HELL of a lot of people who shouldn’t be on that list. I dunno, it might make great conversation around thanksgiving where you can say, “So cool when Obama gave that medal to Billie Jean King.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049/20 "2019-05-17T04:11:22Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Conrad Black as in the disgraced former owner of the Telegraph? I thought he was Canadian. And dead; Wikipedia states otherwise. He is Canadian, and he’s very much alive. He was interviewed on one of our news shows today. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-tiger-now-someone-named-conrad-black/834049.md?page=2)