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By David Whitley
The Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, Fla. - Johnny Miller, you have gone too far.

As a former pool boy, I demand an apology and that NBC send you to pool-boy sensitivity training.

Miller thinks a camera clicking during a backswing is tough? Try hitting a 3-iron after inhaling chlorine gas.

He hates it when the fairways turn brown? What about when a high-priced swimming hole turns into a big bowl of pea soup.

If you don't understand my anger, let us return to last week's U.S. Open starring Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate.

Miller said Mediate "looks like the guy who cleans Tiger's swimming pool." He later added, "Guys with the name Rocco don't get on the trophy, do they?"

This naturally triggered the latest installment of As the PC World Turns. The National Italian American Foundation sent a letter to NBC demanding Miller's suspension.

Chairman A. Kenneth Cingoli said the letter "is not meant to be an attack on NBC but rather be an illumination of a problem that continues to trouble our society."

He's right about that. Our society continues to be troubled by hypersensitivity.

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