Fox Sports airs incredible untasteful parody of Rush

Fox NFL Pre-Game ^ | 10/20/2003 | Fox NFL Pregame

[Jack Black]

Who saw this. It was amazingly horrible. What in hell were they thinking? Somethings are not funny.

[truthandjustice1]

Didn't see it. What was the jist?

[gcruse]

If it had been, say, Michael Moore, you'd still be laffing.

[Always Right]

If it had been, say, Michael Moore, you'd still be laffing.

I am not sure what this was exactly, but doing something in bad taste is in bad taste no matter who said it our who it was about.

[ctonious]

Fox NFL Sunday seems to be going out of its way to trash Rush about the affirmative action issue - and went very heavy duty on the pill-popping thing in this very tasteless parody. Very unlike the somber and sympathetic poses they put on every time a National Felon League player fails a drug test.

[BCrago66]

Can you describe axactly the parody?

[truthandjustice1]

Well said. Kick him when he's Down Syndrome. A holes.

[Always Right]

Why make a post and not describe what went on?????????????

[Jack Black]

Rush (someone playing him) is pictured sitting in bed with a tray on his lap. He is smoking a cigar. The tray is covered with pills and a cigar box full of pills. Rush starts talking about the fine that on of the NFL players got for bumping a ref. He says something like "He was fined because he was a lovely shade of Mahogony Chocolate Brown" and not say a Vicodan Green (holding up a bag of pills) or Oxycottin blue." He continues "Lets review that fine" and holds up a sign that says BLACK = $50,000 then he says "What about Joe Blow, who is white and said this. Puts up new sign "WHITE = 0". A hispanic woman's voice says "nada" in time with this, she is the 'nurse' but we don't see much of her. The a doctor comes in and asks "Rush, have you been taking pain killers again" "No, doctor" "Then you don't mind if I test your reflexes" And begins smashing his feet and legs with a baseball bat. The Rush character then stuffs his mouth with handfulls of the pills from his bed table.

Tastelss and sick. I don't remember parodies of Brett Farve when he went into rehab on the NFL pregame, he is a lot more central to the NFL then Rush Limbaugh.

[truthandjustice1]

Good summary. Thank you. Rush is still the best.

[Mike-o-Matic]

From your description, it doesn't even sound like it could be remotely construed as amusing. Sickos.

[Let's Roll]

I had stopped watching the ESPN pregame because they dumped Rush - of course that was the reason I started watching it - and now I just shut off the FOX version because of the outrageous treatment of Rush.

Tried to watch CBS pregame but Deion is too much. Oh, well guess I'll just wait for the games to begin - people got along without pregame shows for years so think I'll survive.

[Russ]

Just watch McNabb today against the Giants for further proof that Rush was and is right.

[Burr5]

OK. Tasteless. But public figures take it on the chin in a tasteless way all the time. I feel sorry for Rush, of course, and I hope he was watching CBS at the time, but comedy is comedy.

Frank Caliendo is the perp, here, if anyone wants a factual detail.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Fox Sports airs incredible untasteful parody of Rush"

The Cork in Rush's Bat

[Let's Roll]

No, it was way too grade school. Nothing funny about seeing Michael Moore stuffing pills into his mouth like popcorn, yakking all the while as the pills spill over and fall into his lap, the bed tray etc.

[gcruse]

I am not sure what this was exactly

It was comedy.  The pervasiveness  of barf alerts
on FR illustrates the problem.  Too many freepers
have to be told ahead of time whether what they are
about to read is for or against their political sensibilities.
Once they know whether the subject is fish or fowl,
it then becomes  a matter of  picking from one pile
of responses depending on whether the subject is
one of 'ours' or not.  Had the comedy been about
some liberal instead of Rush, the response would
have been totally opposite.

'Taste' is too often a matter of whose ox is being gored.

[StriperSniper]

I hope so, Go Giants!

[Azzurri]

Just watch McNabb today against the Giants for further proof that Rush was and is right.

I was flipping thru the channels this morning and stopped on ESPN Sportszone for a second. The topic of discussion: "Which QB in the league would you pick right now to build a team around?" The answers from the esteemed crew, including idiot Tom Jackson, were: Peyton Manning, Steve McNair, Michael Vick. Not one mention of the overrated Donovan McNabb. Hypocrites. Just a couple weeks ago they were saying McNabb was the greatest thing since sliced bread when defending him against Rush's comments.

Disclaimer: I only stopped on Sportszone because I was curious when I saw the topic being discussed. I don't and won't watch the show anymore.

[Dane]

Tastelss and sick. I don't remember parodies of Brett Farve when he went into rehab on the NFL pregame, he is a lot more central to the NFL then Rush Limbaugh

Hey Terry Bradshaw has to have someone to kick when he is down. Afterall he is the ultimate hayseed and proves that every week on TV.

JMO, but he and Terry McAuliffe are cousins in some sort of way.

And this comment comes from someone who grew up in Pittsburgh in the 70's. Lynn Swann, John Stalworth, Jack Lambert etc. etc. carried that team, but bradshaw always takes all the credit.