Ted Bishop compares PGA impeachment to JFK assassination

Ted Bishop does not need social media to put both feet in his mouth. The recently ousted former president of the PGA of America took to his blog on Tuesday to bemoan his impeachment as “political correctness” run amok and compare his trials to John F. Kennedy being shot in the head.

“Ted Bishop became the latest casualty to PC- political correctness,” Bishop wrote on Tuesday, referring to himself in the oh-so-arrogant third person. “My term was scheduled to end on November 22, itself an infamous day. I shot myself 29 days ahead of schedule.”

Those who were not even glimmers in their future parents’ eyes at that time perhaps do not consider, as those of a certain vintage certainly do, Nov. 22, 1963, as one of the darkest days in U.S. history. For Bishop to draw a casual comparison between his sacking and the assassination of an American president was not only truly offensive but an example of the lofty view the ex-president continues to have of himself.

Despite a Golf.com poll that Bishop claimed ran 77 percent-23 percent against his losing his job, we continue to believe the PGA did the right thing in tossing him a month before his two-year term would have been up (the 11/22 reference). And we take issue with Bishop — who continues to call himself “President PGA of America” on his blog — trotting out that tired old “PC” excuse for his insensitive use of words (“little girl”) in a failed attempt to rip Ian Poulter but instead denigrated half the population.

We are offended anew by Bishop’s extremely poor taste in the words he chooses to express himself and wonder if he will act as quickly to expunge the newly outrageous language as he did to delete his now-infamous Twitter and Facebook posts.