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The One Where Brit Hume Urges Tiger Woods to Ditch Buddha For Jesus

Fox commentator Brit Hume finally addressed the whole "Tiger Woods: Buddhist" issue sitting in the room like a 500 lb., big-bellied false deity, urging the disgraced golfer and Vanity Fair cover beefcake on Fox News yesterday to renounce Buddhism -- which he described as not offering the "kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith" -- in favor of the far more redemptive and philanderer-friendly Christianity. "Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world," he said with a missionary's zeal (the speech works even better if you play Ennio Morricone under it and imagine Hume tumbling from Iguazu Falls tied to a bag of golf clubs). As a rare, appalled silence swept across the Fox News studios, it fell to fellow panelist Bill Kristol to penetrate the vacuum, a feat he deftly managed by labeling Hume's intentions "admirable," before swiftly dumping that hot potato and predicting that the Resurrection would come with a win at the Masters.